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American Advantage Home Care is a small but rapidly growing home health provider located in one of Michigan’s most diverse cities. Founded more than a decade ago, the company was purchased by Cleamon Moorer, Jr., in 2019. Since taking over as president and CEO, Moorer has grown American Advantage Home Care’s patient census several times over while expanding its clinical capabilities. As the home h...

Several post-acute care policy leaders have entered the national spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic, but perhaps none more than David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. In recent months, Grabowski has repeatedly addressed the need to rethink long-term care in the United States, from changing up the traditional nursing home model to investing more heavily in...

For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with Contessa Health’s senior medical advisor, Mark Montoney, to chat about the booming hospital-at-home model in the United States. Nashville, Tennessee-based Contessa helps health systems provide hospital-level care in the home through its Home Recovery Care model. Montoney came on board as the company’s CMO not long after its founding...

Across the country, home health, hospice and home care workers continue to struggle when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine access. Nowhere is that challenge more evident than in Florida, industry insiders note. In our latest episode of Disrupt, Home Care Association of Florida (HCAF) Executive Director Bobby Lolley sits down with Home Health Care News to provide an on-the-ground update on vaccine progr...

For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with CareCentrix CEO John Driscoll to talk about emerging health care trends and his company’s plans for 2021. Originally founded in 1996 by major home health provider Gentiva, CareCentrix is a national at-home care organization that manages more than 26 million lives across over 8,000 provider locations. Listen to this episode of Disrupt...

Formerly CHI Health at Home, CommonSpirit Health at Home is a Milford, Ohio-based health care organization that provides home care, home infusion, home respiratory care, hospice and medical transportation services. As with most home health providers, COVID-19 has become the “new normal” for CommonSpirit. Throughout the public health emergency, the company has implemented a number of measures to ad...

Trinity Health at Home currently ranks as one of the largest home health providers in the country. It’ll be even bigger next year, thanks to an ongoing consolidation strategy to combine its national and regional locations. Home health veteran Mark McPherson leads Trinity Health at Home as its president and CEO. Apart from the consolidation move, McPherson’s focus is on preventing “COVID fatigue” a...

In 2008 -- amid the last recession -- Ryan Iwamoto and his co-founders started Los Angeles-based 24 Hour Home Care with $160,000 total of investment cash from family and friends. The company is now one of the largest privately owned home care companies in the U.S. with 19 locations spanning three states and over $115 million in projected revenue in 2020. The growth that 24 Hour Home Care has seen...

Headquartered in Northern California, Medical Home Care Professionals is a small home health agency that has had to overcome big challenges over the past few years. In 2018, Medical Home Care Professionals had to operate through the historic Carr Fire. Right after that, it had to deliver care through a record-breaking blizzard. Now, it’s battling through the COVID-19 crisis — and another devastati...

In 2013, co-founder and CMO Dr. Clive Fields helped launch primary care provider VillageMD as a 13-physician practice. Seven years later, VillageMD has grown to a 2,500-physician practice -- one with an innovative care model partly shaped around the home. As one of its leaders, Fields has a vision of going “back to the future” by returning to home- and community-based care. He’ll have plenty of fi...

Founded in 1966, Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice is the largest independent, nonprofit provider of home health and hospice services in the state of Maine. On top of those core services, Androscoggin also offers palliative care, transitional care, virtual care and more. At the helm of Androscoggin is CEO and President Ken Albert. Since the coronavirus began, Albert has helped his company ove...

Home care agencies nationwide are eager to partner with Medicare Advantage plans, but doing so is easier said than done. However, mid-year flexibilities recently announced by CMS instantly opened up new opportunities for providers. In this episode of Disrupt, you’ll hear from Anne Tumlinson, CEO of ATI innovations, who broke it all down. Tumlinson explained what the flexibilities mean for home car...

While the coronavirus brings a number of direct challenges for home-based care operators, it presents several secondary hurdles as well. Among them: an exacerbation of mental illness and behavioral health conditions, especially for isolated older adults. Nizhoni Health is a growing home health provider based in Massachusetts that specializes in caring for populations with acute mental illness. For...

EvergreenHealth Home Care has more experience dealing with the coronavirus than any other agency in the country. It’s been battling the COVID-19 virus since February, when the first positive case popped up in the Seattle area, where the home health provider is based. In this episode of Disrupt, you’ll hear from Brent Korte, chief home care officer at EvergreenHealth. Korte shared his organization’...

National Association for Home Care and Hospice President Bill DombiThe United States — now with more confirmed cases than all but two countries — has hit a critical juncture in the uphill battle against the coronavirus. But home- and community-based health care providers are still left fighting for more support. Home Health Care News recently caught up with National Association for Home Care &...

Headquartered in the Boston area, HouseWorks is growing -- and fast. Private equity backing has helped. And so has the company’s unique business model, a blend of home care and home modification. For this episode of Disrupt, we caught up with the leader of HouseWorks -- founder and CEO Andrea Cohen -- to learn about that growth strategy and how it will play out in 2020. During our conversation, we...

Home health and personal care aides are often referred to as “the eyes and ears” of the U.S. health care system, but they’re still infrequently used in care teams. Changing that is going to take some hard work and dedicated advocacy, according to Dr. Robyn Stone, senior vice president of research at LeadingAge and director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center at UMass Boston. Home Health Care News recent...

With 2020 right around the corner, the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) is coming in hot. Providers big and small are mostly ready to go at this point -- but there’s always something new to learn. For the final Disrupt conversation of 2019 -- a year of change for the home health care industry -- HHCN caught up with the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare’s Joanne Cunningham. Don’t miss th...

Interim HealthCare -- one of the oldest home-based care franchise models around -- is headed in a brand new direction. President and CEO Jennifer Sheets is leading the way. After joining Interim in early 2019, Sheets is now steering Interim toward its new HomeLife Enrichment strategy, which is focused on whole-person care and enabling aging in place. But that's not the only thing on the CEO's lead...

For many in the aging services space, the adult day center world isn't exactly clear. Murky federal definitions and regulations mean adult day oversight is largely left to state-by-state governance. Additionally, many individuals maintain overly simplistic, somewhat prejudiced misconceptions about what adult day centers actually provide. But don't be fooled. The adult day market is booming -- and...

You’ve probably heard of HomeHero before, the startup once labeled a home care “disruptor” that was eventually forced to close up shop. But have you ever heard of Family Directed? That’s the relatively new technology-enabled home care company that’s trying to breathe new life into HomeHero while also attempting to give consumers more transparency on the home care services they sign up for. Unlike...

A few years ago, many would have considered ride-hailing and health care apples and oranges. But today, they’re more like peanut butter and jelly, with companies such as Uber and Lyft rolling out health care divisions of their own. In this episode of Disrupt, you’ll hear from the head of one of those divisions: Dan Trigub. He came to Uber Health in December following a 2-year stint at Lyft -- and...

Led by CEO Jeff Wiberg, Family Resource Home Care is the product of a merger between two of the biggest home care providers in the Pacific Northwest. The company is now using that scale to create density in its markets and go after emerging Medicare Advantage opportunities. In general, Family Resource Home Care's transformation mirrors the industry at large, which is currently engulfed in a major...

With its transition to a nonprofit model, Bayada Home Health Care has had a busy past couple years. Next up for the billion-dollar home-based care provider? Finding new ways to do -- and pay for -- what it does best. In this episode of Disrupt, CEO David Baiada will tell listeners what that means for the future of the company. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: - Why Bayada is leaning int...

If you haven’t yet heard of Minnesota-based Lifesprk, you likely will very soon. Led by CEO Joel Theisen, Lifesprk provides a range of services in the home -- including home-based primary care -- to help seniors achieve their health and wellness goals. The model has been so successful, the company teamed up with Utah’s Intermountain Healthcare in 2018 for the launch of their Homespire joint ventur...