DURHAM, North Carolina—Arosa, a provider of integrated care management and caregiving services, celebrated 13 caregivers who received Ceca Awards in recognition of their exceptional care delivery and also announced two new locations.
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San Antonio—Caring Senior Service, a private-duty, non-medical senior homecare services company, announced that it has tapped Jeff Bevis as its new chief operating officer tasked with expanding the company’s franchising opportunities, accelerating its revenue growth and showcasing its proprietary technology.
CINCINNATI—Quipt Home Medical Corp. has bought Great Elm Healthcare, LLC, a division of Great Elm Group, Inc. that operates a complete line of respiratory-related durable medical equipment (DME) service locations across eight states in the Midwest, Southwest and Pacific Northwest and had $60 million in revenue last year.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee—Monogram Health, a value-based specialty provider of in-home evidence-based care and benefit management services for patients living with polychronic conditions, including chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease, has closed on $375 million of new funding.
Expect 2023 to be a big year for Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), which have been gaining attention since the COVID-19 pandemic drew public attention to failures in the health care system. The PACE Innovation Act allows pilot programs to expand their reach, and the Alliance for PACE Innovation and Quality has launched a new project in 2023 designed to hit a target of 200,000 PACE participants in five years.
EL SEGUNDO, California—24 Hour Home Care, a non-medical in-home care provider, announced Simon Close will be promoted to president of its Senior Care division. Close joined the 24 Hour Home Care team in 2020 as vice president of sales and brings a wealth of knowledge in the health industry and worldwide business experience. As president of senior care, Close is focused on serving clients and their families by making it easy to access in-home care with an effortless experience.
LAS VEGAS—Assistive robotics company Labrador Systems is presenting new demonstrations of its award-winning personal robot at CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show).
BALL GROUND, Georgia—CAIRE Inc., a global manufacturer of oxygen therapy and on-site generation systems, has finalized the acquisition of St. Paul, Minnesota-based MGC Diagnostics Holdings, Inc. (MGC). This acquisition strengthens CAIRE’s position and focus on diagnostic technologies — furthering expanding its expertise in serving patients throughout the progression of pulmonary disease, the company said in a news release.
FORT WORTH, Texas—Health care mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm VERTESS recently welcomed Jonathan Hadley as its newest managing director. Hadley brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the medical device space after leading and growing the largest medical device service organization in North America, MSC Biomedical.
ERLANGER, Kentucky—Adaptive Imports has a new president and clinical director: Melissa “Missy” Tally.
Tally will oversee the United States sales and distribution of complex rehabilitation equipment brands including: Jenx, Hoggi, Krabat, SafeSpaces and HeadOvations. She will will focus on support for Adaptive Imports’ national team of independent sales representatives, customers, assistive technology professionals (ATPs), clinicians and referral sources.
JENSEN BEACH, Florida—Careficient Inc., a provider of electronic medical record (EMR) solutions for home health, hospice and homecare, announced the acquisition of Net Health’s EMR line of home health, hospice, homecare and palliative solutions and revenue cycle management (RCM) services.
RALEIGH, North Carolina—The CEO of two North Carolina durable medical equipment (DME) companies has been sentenced to 80 months in prison for health care fraud, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
CINCINNATI—Home medical equipment provider Quipt Home Medical Corp. announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 financial results and operational highlights.
AMSTERDAM—Royal Philips has provided new test results for first-generation DreamStation devices (about 68% of registered devices globally) affected by the voluntary recall notification/field safety notice and is encouraging health care providers and patients to consult the update while making decisions.
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois–The Joint Commission announced it is eliminating 168 standards, or 14% overall, and revising 14 other standards across its accreditation programs to streamline requirements and make them as efficient and impactful on patient safety, quality and equity as possible. That includes deleting 10 homecare standards and revising one.
The first tranche of standards deletions and revisions by program, effective Jan. 1, 2023, include:
NEW YORK (December 20, 2022)—Tomorrow Health, a home-based care company, announced that Heidi Nicoll has joined as vice president of talent management. Bringing human resources leadership experience from growing technology companies Splice and Shutterstock, Nicoll is the latest addition to the Tomorrow Health team working to restore the home as the primary place of care for patients.
TORONTO, Canada (December 20, 2022)—Ability Members Group, one of Canada’s networks of independent home medical equipment providers, has announced the addition of Starkmans Health Care Depot to its membership. A Toronto institution for over nine decades, Starkmans began as a pharmacy and grew into a key destination for health care products ranging from ostomy, home safety and mobility aids to rehab and home medical equipment.
WASHINGTON (December 20, 2022)—U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra announced the annual release of the Department's National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease: 2022 Update - PDF.
WASHINGTON (December 20, 2022)—Most of the providers who were enrolled in Medicare under COVID-19-related waivers and then had their enrollments revoked were durable medical equipment, prosthetics and orthotics (DMEPOS) suppliers, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).