HomeCare News

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan—Boost Home Healthcare, a home health company that provides in-home nursing, therapy and homecare services, announced Larry Blacker as brand president. Bringing more than 20 years of homecare industry experience to the position, Blacker will oversee Boost Home Healthcare operations and procedures as the home health brand continues to expand across the country.

CARY, North Carolina—Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc. (ACHC) has broken ground on an addition to its headquarters located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. Plans call for tripling the size of the current building once the addition is completed in late 2024. The expanded headquarters is designed to accommodate more than 300 employees.
 

MIAMI—Independent Living Systems (ILS), a provider of health care and social services to complex populations in the Medicare, Medicaid and Dual-Eligible markets, announced it has been licensed as a home medical provider, meaning it can provide critical durable medical equipment for the home to partnering health care organizations and the general public.

A new platform developed by the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI) merges and analyzes data to help health care organizations answer key questions about the rapidly expanding market of home-based medical care.

WATERLOO, Iowa—Essentially Women, a division of VGM & Associates, announced a partnership with Nymbl Systems, an all-in-one, cloud-based, billing and business management solution. Nymbl Systems said it prides itself on providing the best customer experience on an easy and desirable interface that is 100% cloud-based.

Telehealth Access for America (TAFA), an American Hospital Association-created campaign to protect patient access to critical telehealth services, urged Congress to make permanent certain Medicare telehealth flexibilities granted during the COVID-19 public health emergency and extended through 2024 by the Consolidated Appropriations Act.

DALLAS—Emerald X officials named Kerry Tyler as the new associate show director for Medtrade, the nation’s largest home medical equipment (HME)-focused trade show.

Tyler launched her tradeshow career with Emerald X a decade ago, starting as an account executive on the GlobalShop Show.

FRISCO, Texas—Addus HomeCare Corporation, a provider of homecare services, announced Dirk Allison, chairman and chief executive officer, and Brian Poff, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will participate in the 2023 RBC Capital Markets Global Healthcare Conference, which takes place May 16-17, 2023, in New York City.

TORONTO—Cardinal Health Canada announced plans to open a new distribution center in the greater Toronto area (GTA), expanding its distribution footprint to nine strategic locations with a goal to better meet the medical and surgical product demands of the Canadian health care system.

In a Fact Sheet released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the department provided clarity regarding the future of federal flexibilities related to telehealth and tell prescribing to ensure patients may continue to access and receive the care they need.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky—Health and well-being company Humana Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with two national organizations to provide durable medical equipment (DME) services to help Humana Medicare Advantage HMO members achieve their best health at home.

BURKBURNETT, Texas—HomeWell Franchising Inc., the franchisor of HomeWell Care Services, a non-medical in-home care provider and one of the fastest-growing homecare franchises in the nation, recently made strides toward supporting its rapidly expanding franchise network. This April, HomeWell launched Learning Lab, a new learning management system, for use across its franchise system.

NEW YORK CITY—Equiva Health, a digital patient engagement and health relationship management solution provider, announced the addition of Scott P. Jones as the company’s chief operating officer (COO).

MONTRÉAL—AlayaCare, a software as a service (SaaS) end-to-end home and community-based care platform developer, announced it is partnering with Carefor Health & Community Services, Eastern Ontario’s largest home and community care agency, to integrate AlayaCare Cloud. AlayaCare and Carefor are collaborating to integrate the AlayaCare Cloud platform to serve as the primary source of information and automation for Carefor back-office staff and frontline providers.

BOSTON—Healthy.io, known for transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, announced the launch of a program with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a research-driven pharmaceutical company, that will support at-home testing and provide educational information for patients at risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona—In recognition of Older Americans Month, Executive Home Care, a provider of homecare services, stated its commitment to meeting the growing demand for personalized care among the baby boomer generation. As baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, continue to age, their need for long-term care options is on the rise. Executive Home Care said it is dedicated to offering tailored care solutions that cater to the unique needs of this age group.

ELYRIA, Ohio—Invacare Holdings Corporation (“Invacare” or “the company”), a leading manufacturer and distributor of medical equipment used in non-acute care settings, announced Invacare Corporation and its two U.S. subsidiaries, Freedom Designs, Inc. and Adaptive Switch Laboratories, Inc., successfully emerged from Chapter 11 on May 5, 2023.

PAWTUCKET, Rhode Island—Ageless Innovation, a global company devoted to reimagining how people positively live and age together through the power of play, announced its plans to reimagine three classic board games made by global branded entertainment leader, Hasbro, including The Game of Life, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit.

PHOENIX, Arizona–Team Select Home Care (“Team Select” or the “Company”), a homecare platform that provides care primarily to protected pediatric patient populations, announced a strategic capital investment from Court Square Capital Partners, a middle market-focused private equity firm with $7.4 billion in assets under management.

ATLANTA—The van Halem Group announced Kit Shellhouse, director of business development, has been named as an associate board member to the Ohio Association of Medical Equipment Services (OAMES).

“Serving as an associate board member for OAMES is a privilege,” said Shellhouse. “To fight for our patients, state associations must continue to play a vital role in the business. Supporting providers from a local level to Capitol Hill on a state and national level is essential.”