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.
