HomeCare News

SUNRISE, Florida—Interim HealthCare Inc. announced it has acquired its second-largest franchisee and one of the longest-tenured franchise operations in the Interim HealthCare network.

Effective Jan. 1, 2026, Interim’s corporate operations expanded to include the upstate and midlands of South Carolina, along with a hospice location in Atlanta, Georgia. Local franchise leadership will now report into Interim HealthCare’s headquarters.

TROY, Michigan—Integra Partners announced it has entered a partnership with HelixVM, a provider of 24/7 "visit-less" asynchronous virtual care, under its group purchasing organization (GPO) offer. The partnership tackles one of the biggest challenges in the durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) industry-getting the documentation and medical orders required to bill for services.

DALLAS—21st Century Health Care Consultants, a provider of consulting, licensing, accreditation and training services for homecare agencies nationwide, announced a strategic alliance with Homecare HomebaseSM (HCHB), a provider of home-based care software and administrative services.

WASHINGTON—The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held a series of listening sessions hosted by CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz on home health and hospice fraud in Los Angeles. The sessions were attended by staff of LeadingAge national, LeadingAge California and The National Alliance for Care at Home. 

DALLAS—Applied Digital, a designer, builder and operator of engineered data centers and colocation services announced it is planning to merge with EKSO Bionics Holdings, Inc.. Once closed, the combination will go forward as ChronoScale Corporation, a compute platform purpose-built to support artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.

NEW YORK—TwelveStone Health Partners, a provider of chronic care medication services, announced a partnership with Tennr, the health care technology company that automates patient processing for referral-based care.

LAS VEGAS—Professional Healthcare Staffing and AulTru announced they have now united under one simplified name: Professional Home Health Services (PHS).

“Our community knows us—they know our caregivers, our nurses and our commitment to families,” said Joe Struck, CEO of Professional Home Health Services. “This name change is not about changing who we are. It’s about making it easier for the community to understand that we are one strong, unified team—ready to serve.”

WASHINGTON—If unchecked, the new competitive bidding plan created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could devastate home medical equipment (HME) providers and hurt patients, the head of the American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) told a congressional committee.

WASHINGTON—Medtech association AdvaMed announced Robery Cohen will be the next chair of its Digital Health Tech board of directors. Cohen is the vice president of innovation and technology of the orthopaedic group at Stryker.He succeeds Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, global chief science and technology officer at GE HealthCare, who served as the inaugural chair of the board overseeing the then-newly created division.  

Cohen will serve a two-year term beginning this month.  

ARLINGTON, Virginia—Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) has announced the appointment of Timothy Safley as strategic advisor to its durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) program. Safley brings more than three decades of leadership across DMEPOS, specialty and infusion pharmacy and home health/hospice, including senior roles in national provider operations and the development of accreditation programs at a national accrediting organization.

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia—Sherry Kesler has been named vice president of post-acute services at WVU Medicine, overseeing home health, hospice and home medical equipment. 

TALLAHASSEE, Florida—Big Bend Hospice announced beginning in January 2026, it will expand its hospice services into Jackson, Calhoun and Gulf counties.

GOLETA, California—Inogen, Inc., a medical technology company specializing in respiratory products for homecare use, announced the launch of Aurora CPAP masks, a new product within the Inogen portfolio designed for patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

SANDY, Utah—Just outside Salt Lake City sits an old, two-story, brick hotel. It’s been given new life as a homeless shelter for seniors. The Medically Vulnerable People shelter—or MVP shelter, as it’s known—is for people 62 and older or for younger adults with chronic health issues.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana—Superior Health Holdings, a provider of home health and hospice services across Louisiana, announced the acquisition of the Bayou Country hospice operations of Hope Healthcare and Hospice BC, LLC, a community-based hospice provider headquartered in Houma, Louisiana. 

LAS VEGAS—Intuition Robotics has announced ElliQ’s new health agent capabilities, an expansion of the ElliQ robot that turns the artificial intelligence (AI) companion into a proactive health agent, increasing insights on health and functional status as well as adherence on medications, screenings, wellness activities, lifestyle recommendations and clinical action plans.

ELYRIA, Ohio & SPICEWOOD, Texas—Adaptive Switch Laboratories, a division of Invacare America, has launched the ASL iON Integrated Drive Control System, an advancement for power wheelchair users that goes beyond improved mobility to help enhance their ability to engage with people, interact with their environment and meet more of their needs independently.

SAN FRANCISCO—SleepRes, Inc., a sleep technology company focused on reimagining therapy for sleep breathing disorders, announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the Kricket PAP device, powered by Kairos Positive Airway Pressure (KPAP) for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in patients weighing more than 66 pounds. The SleepRes PAP system is intended for home, hospital/institutional and sleep center settings.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced it has issued a fourth temporary extension of the COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for the Prescription of Controlled Medications, extending the current telemedicine flexibilities through Dec. 31, 2026.

RALEIGH, North Carolina—Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that Giselle Alexandria Farrell was sentenced to 24 months of supervised probation and ordered to pay $12,916.56 in restitution after pleading guilty to Medicaid provider fraud.