Pacific Lake Partners Leads New IntellaTriage Growth Investment Round

Post-acute nurse triage company IntellaTriage has secured growth investment dollars in a round led by Pacific Lake Partners. Brentwood, Tennessee-based IntellaTriage provides after-hours triage services to hospices and home health operators, as well as health care organizations in other settings. Several other investment firms participated in the round, including Trilogy Search Partners, TTCER Partners, The […]

PE Firms Cimarron, Tacoma Holdings Recapitalize Frontpoint Health

The private equity firms Cimarron Healthcare Capital and Tacoma Holdings have recapitalized the home-based care provider Frontpoint Health. Financal terms were undisclosed. Frontpoint provides home health, hospice, palliative and personal care with a focus on Medicare Advantage enrollees in Texas markets. The investors tapped former Evergreen Health executive Brent Korte to become CEO of the […]

Future Leaders Class of 2022: Hayden Jordan, Palliative Care Director, PruittHealth Home

Hayden Jordan, director of palliative care for senior care provider PruittHealth Home, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. Future Leaders are individuals nominated by their peers. Candidates must be high-performing employees who are 40-years-old or younger, passionate workers who know how to put vision into action, and advocates for seniors and […]

How the US Will Revamp Family Caregiver Support

Without family caregivers, many hospice patients would be unable to receive care in their homes. To help keep patients at home — the lowest-cost setting of care — the federal government recently unveiled a National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, which has more than two decade’s worth of advocacy behind it. The U.S. Department of […]

Care Synergy Becomes National Center for Johns Hopkins’ CAPABLE Program

The hospice, palliative care, and home health network Care Synergy has become the national center for the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, developed by Johns Hopkins University. CAPABLE is a patient-directed initiative designed to keep seniors in their homes through interventions designed to improve mobility, function, and quality of […]

St. Croix Hospice Moves Into Indiana with Adaptive Deal

Minnesota-based St. Croix Hospice has been on a quest to conquer the Midwest through acquisitions and de novos. The company today announced its purchase of Adaptive Hospice from Help at Home, which brings St. Croix three new locations and a foothold in Indiana — the 10th state in their footprint. The hospice provider is a […]

Enhabit Acquires Caring Hearts Hospice

Enhabit Home Health and Hospice (NYSE: EHAB) has acquired Texas-based Caring Hearts Hospice for an undisclosed amount, adding four locations to the company’s footprint in the state. Enhabit emerged from the spinoff of Encompass Health’s (NYSE: EHC) home health and hospice segment, which completed in July. The company is pushing to grow right out of […]

Agape Expands to Alabama, Louisiana with Journey Hospice Deal

Agape Care Group has expanded into Alabama and Louisiana with the acquisition of Journey Hospice. Financial terms were undisclosed. South Carolina-headquartered Agape is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. With the addition of Journey, Agape’s average daily census exceeds 3,700 daily across five states, with a staff of 1,500. “Both […]

MA Palliative Care Benefits See Little 2023 Growth, But Payer Interest Remains High

Only 10 new Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will offer home-based palliative care as a primarily health-related benefit for 2023, but payers may be offering those services through other programs. Among Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits, in-home support services and caregiver support saw the most year-over-year growth for 2023. The number of plans offering home-based palliative care […]

CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. 31, 2021, according to a new CMMI white paper. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice […]