BOSTON—HouseWorks Holdings, LLC (the company), a personal care services platform serving the northeast, announces that it has acquired the Connecticut Personal Care Division (brands Companions and Homemakers, LLC. and Companions Forever, LLC.) of AccordCare, a national provider of homecare and certified home health. With this acquisition, HouseWorks enters Connecticut, expanding the company’s geographic footprint while offering compelling opportunities for future growth.

BILLERICA, Massachusetts—Breas Medical, Inc., a global provider of home mechanical ventilation and sleep therapy, announced that it has executed a vendor partner agreement with VGM & Associates, a national member service organization (MSO) for post-acute health care.

ORLANDO, Florida—A new joint venture between InnovAge and Orlando Health will be officially announced at the grand opening of InnovAge Florida PACE-Orlando, on Wednesday, May 29. InnovAge, the industry leader in serving high-cost, complex care seniors, introduces PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) to the Orlando market, bringing its 30 years of experience operating PACE programs, helping seniors with medical, financial, social, and emotional care and support.

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas & NEW YORK—WellSky, a health and community care technology company, announced the release of WellSky TeamEngage powered by Ava, a new innovation for home-based care providers aimed at increasing employee retention, reliability and recruitment through gamification.

MIAMI—A Miami federal district judge sentenced a fugitive to 87 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a multimillion-dollar conspiracy to commit money laundering. The judge also ordered him to pay $3,709,860 in restitution.

BRENTWOOD, Tennessee—IntellaTriage, a provider of nurse-first hospice and home health triage solutions, and CommonSpirit Health at Home (CSHaH), one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health care systems, went live with a secure integration between Homecare Homebase and IntellaTriage’s triage platform, IntellaHub. Partners since 2022, the companies recognized that a deeper integration of their systems could greatly enhance their shared mission of improving patient and caregiver experiences.

BURLINGTON, Ontario—VGM Canada has announced the continuation of the Canadian HME Woman of the Year Award. Nominations are open now through June 28.

NEW YORK—A U.S. District Attorney in New York state announced the settlement of a civil fraud lawsuit against Riverspring Living Holding Corp. and Elderserve Health, Inc., two not-for-profit corporations that run a managed long-term care plan (MLTCP) for Medicaid beneficiaries.

​​​​​​​​WASHINGTON—The American Health Care Association (AHCA), joined by the Texas Health Care Association (THCA) and several Texas long-term care facilities filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas against the U.S.

ROCKFORD, Illinois—Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced $218,000 for OSF HealthCare to expand telehealth services to families in rural communities across central and northern Illinois.