Home Health

TEMPE, Arizona—SYNERGY HomeCare has announced its two newest locations, SYNERGY HomeCare in Tinley Park, Illinois, and SYNERGY HomeCare in South Frederick, Maryland. The companies will assist nearby residents with nonmedical homecare services, including companion, personal and respite care. 

SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick—Kindred Home Care Inc., an independent homecare provider located in Canada, announced that its local Newfoundland subsidiary, TLC Nursing and Home Care Services Limited (TLC), has acquired the Helping Hands group of companies—comprising Helping Hands Home Care Services Ltd., A Better Living Home Care Inc. and In Home Health Care Services Ltd. Financial terms were not disclosed.

SEATTLE—Frazier Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MatrixCare from Resmed.

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pennsylvania—AdaptHealth, a provider of home-based medical devices including CPAP machines, has revealed it was hit by a cyberattack resulting in data exfiltration last month, yet stressed that vital customer data such as payment card information was not compromised by the breach.

DALLAS—Avid Health at Home announced it has completed its eighth tuck-in acquisition with the purchase of Tech Medical Home Care Services (Tech Med).

Avid Health, a provider of at-home and community-based homecare services, said it is continuing its expansion in the midwestern United States with its acquisition of Tech Med, which is based on Kentucky and Ohio.

BROOKLYN, New York—A massive settlement will be awarded to more than 200,000 family caregivers throughout the state of New York. A federal judge granted preliminary approval of a proposed $162 million wage-and-hour class action lawsuit involving caregivers, aka personal assistants, who were paid through Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), the statewide fiscal intermediary for New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP).

BRENTWOOD, Tennessee—Compassus, a national provider of integrated home-based care services, announced it is celebrating 20 years of its work in the industry. 

"This milestone reflects two decades of providing compassionate, person-centered care to patients and families across the country as the provider looks to build the next generation of care delivered in the home," the company said in a released statement.

IRVING, Texas—Vizient announced the release of the 2026 Impact of Change forecast, which highlighted how shifts in care delivery, patient complexity and site-of-care access challenges are reshaping healthcare utilization. The 10-year forecast projects continued growth in outpatient services as more care shifts to ambulatory sites, creating new challenges for capacity planning, workforce strategy and care coordination.

NEW YORK—Hera, a senior care management company, announced $27 million in Series A funding to continue building Hera's AI platform. The company said this funding will help it expand into California, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, with the goal of going live in 25-plus states by year-end. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) with continued participation from Accel and IA Ventures and other parties.

NORCROSS, Georgia—HomeSight, a division of global connectivity leader Vantiva (Euronext Paris: VANTI), announced that it has partnered with Comfort Keepers, a provider of in-home care for seniors across North America. The companies said together they aim to bring HomeSight to Comfort Keepers’ franchises in the United States and Canada as part of its new Comfort360 ecosystem of connected care services and senior solutions.

LOS ANGELES—Tombot, a manufacturer in health and wellness robotic companion animals, announced the closing of a $7 million Series A3 financing round. The round includes investments from Caduceus Capital Partners, Wavemaker 360, the Lutheran Foundation for Long Term Living and Florida Community Health Network.

The company said it has already secured more than 23,000 pre-order and waitlist customers for its flagship product named “Jennie."

SAN ANTONIO—Home Instead San Antonio, a provider of in-home care for older adults, announced the expansion of its core service offering with the introduction of nurse-directed care, providing another level of support for older adults with evolving care needs at home.

ATLANTA—CheckWellCall, an Atlanta-based health technology company, announced the commercial soft launch of its AI-powered daily wellness check-in platform for senior living operators and home-based seniors aging in place. The service automates structured, voice-based wellness conversations with patients each day, analyzes responses for deviations from baseline and alerts facility staff or family caregivers when follow-up is warranted. 

CLEVELAND—An Ohio physician has been sentenced for her alleged role in a healthcare fraud conspiracy that fraudulently billed Medicare for more than $1,842,524 in unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME) orders.

Muna Orra, 42, of Westlake, Ohio, was sentenced to five years of probation after she pleaded guilty in January to making false statements related to healthcare matters. She was also ordered to pay $997,641 in restitution to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

OTTAWA, Ontario—Integracare Inc. and the Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County announced a new two-year partnership that names Integracare the exclusive presenting sponsor of the Walk for Dementia and enhances the company's nurse-led, dementia-specialized care for families across Ottawa and Renfrew County in Ontario, Canada.

WASHINGTON—The American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) announced it has invested $8.3 million in the Community Challenge grant program. The program supports 750 quick-action projects that aim to make communities more livable for people of all ages through home modifications and aging in place solutions.