LHC Group (NASDAQ: LHCG) is determined to expand the scale of its hospice services with heavy emphasis on acquisitions. The company has earmarked $421.5 million for acquisitions during 2021 with 84% of those dollars designated for hospice transactions. LHC Group’s acquisition strategy is focused on co-locating new hospice operations with their existing home health locations, […]
Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) is actively pursuing additional hospice acquisitions in early 2021 even as it works to integrate its recent Queen City Hospice purchase in Ohio. In December 2020, the company bought Queen City and its affiliate Miracle City Hospice the private equity firm Stonehenge Partners for a cash purchase price of $192.0 […]
Like many health care providers, Baton Rouge, La.-based Amedisys Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED) did not come out of 2020 unscathed by the coronavirus pandemic. Nevertheless, the company’s hospice segment grew during the outbreak and is anticipated to continue expanding, largely through acquisitions. Amedisys is benefitting from demographic tailwinds of the aging population and rising utilization that […]
The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) plans to be an active acquirer during 2021 with an emphasis on hospice and home health targets. The hospice, home health and senior living provider increased its revolving line of credit by $75 million to a total $150 million this week, pledging to apply those resources to buying new operations. […]
HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) is expected pursue speedy growth for the hospice and home health business the company is set to acquire from Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD). Brookdale has entered into a definitive agreement to sell an 80% stake in its health care services segment to HCA for $400 million. Brookdale will retain a […]
Disruption in the larger health care and aging services space adversely impacted VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. (NYSE: CHE), during 2020. This is particularly due to difficulty accessing patients in nursing homes, assisted living and senior housing operations, as occupancy drops due to the pandemic. The company expects some of that disruption to […]
Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) will continue to pursue hospice expansion as the company considers a strategic repositioning of its hospice and home health assets. Encompass announced in December that its leadership was pondering a spin off or other action for hospice and home health. Other options under consideration include a potential merger, sale, initial public […]
The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) is investing heavily in the growth of its hospice business both through acquisitions and de novo activity during the remainder of the year and into 2021. Pennant set itself on a strong trajectory in 2020 with two start-up locations and four hospice acquisitions thus far. Pennant, which owns and operates […]
Home health and hospice provider LHC Group (NASDAQ: LHCG) has stretched further into the hospice market with accelerated merger and acquisition activity through joint venture partnerships and organic growth during 2020’s third quarter. Joint ventures form the cornerstone of LHC Group’s hospice mergers and acquisitions strategy, with an emphasis on co-locating hospices in markets where […]
The COVID-19 pandemic pummeled Brookdale Senior Living’s (NYSE: BKD) hospice segment during the third quarter, despite seeing growth earlier in the year. While patients do not have to be residents of Brookdale’s senior living communities to use their health care services, that is where the company obtains most of its hospice business. With widespread disruption […]