As it nears its planned Enhabit spinoff, Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) continues to see workforce improvements and a decreased reliance on costly staffing agencies. Its hospice business, however, remains in a difficult spot. Encompass Health has taken a number of steps to improve its clinician recruitment and retention rates, including investing in upskilling programs, […]
Springfield-based Ohio’s Community Mercy Hospice recently opened a new office location in Clark County, in the central region of the state. The new location will allow for expanded community reach and access to hospice care in the area, as well as across three surrounding counties, according to Melissa Blosser, director of care at Ohio’s Community […]
Affinity Hospice, headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., has opened a new location in its home state. Staff at the facility are making smooth transitions into hospice care a priority for their first year in operation. The new office is located at the Hillside Office Plaza, a growing medical community space in Alabaster, Ala. Through the location, […]
St. Croix Hospice has opened a new location in Fremont, Nebraska, its fifth in that state. The de novo continues a period of rapid growth for the Minnesota-based hospice, marking its third new site since January. The previous 2022 de novos launched in Kansas and South Dakota, a new market for the company. This follows […]
Minnesota-based St. Croix Hospice has expanded in Kansas with a de novo in the Overland Park Community, near the Kansas City metropolitan area. This follows six new locations the company opened in 2021, in addition to seven during 2020. St. Croix is backed by the private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, which acquired the hospice provider […]
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) Chairman and CEO Paul Kusserow will officially pass the CEO baton to colleague Chris Gerard on April 15. But the in-home care visionary who helped turn around a struggling company while simultaneously leading a major hospice expansion will remain plenty involved, as needed, he told Hospice News during an interview discussing […]
Cornerstone Healthcare, Inc., a subsidiary of the Ensign Group (ENSG), has purchased the assets of Boerne, Tex.-based All County Home Care and Hospice for an undisclosed sum, furthering the company’s strategy of acquiring well-performing and struggling hospice and home health care providers nationwide. With this acquisition, Cornerstone now operates 25 hospice locations in addition to […]
Tennessee-based Hospice of Chattanooga has rebranded its network of hospice and palliative care providers as Alleo Health System. “Over the last few years, Hospice of Chattanooga has experienced tremendous growth as we have expanded both in geographic reach and scope of services,” Tracy Wood, president and CEO of Hospice of Chattanooga said. “As we continue […]
Hospice providers in the New York region may see a changing of the guard in their pharmacy benefit management (PBM) and medication delivery services. Enclara Pharmacia a provider of PBM services for hospices and palliative care, will acquire Avanti Health Care Services for an undisclosed sum during the first quarter of 2019. Enclara provides PBM […]
Hospice House Foundation of Western North Carolina has broken ground on the first inpatient hospice facility to serve six counties in that region. The Franklin, N.C.-based unit will bring a new level of care for patients too sick for routine home care or who lack family caregiver support. North Carolina’s State Employee Credit Union (SECU) […]
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