Aveanna to Build Resurgent Presence in 2025 M&A Market

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings (Nasdaq: AVAH) plans to rejoin the fray in 2025 when it comes to acquisitions. The Atlanta-headquartered company has its eyes on targets in the private duty nursing, hospice and home health industries, according to CEO Jeff Shaner. But for this year, their emphasis will likely be on private duty and home health […]

Aveanna Revs Hospice, Home Health M&A Engine

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings (Nasdaq: AVAH) is ramping up its merger and acquisition activity in the home health and hospice space heading into next year. The Atlanta-headquartered company has set its strategic sights on both private duty nursing and hospice and home health, according to Aveanna CEO Jeff Shaner. The company has been quiet on the […]

Aveanna’s 4-Pillar Strategy for Growth

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAH) is focused on growth in its private duty and home health businesses in 2024, particularly through value-based contracts. The company sees this approach as a mechanism for improving hiring and building clinical capacity amid labor headwinds. Aveanna added four value-based payer contracts during Q1 for a total of 18 […]

C-Suite Shakeups at Aveanna, New Day, Samaritan, VNAHSR

Aveanna Taps New Chief Legal Executive Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAH) has appointed Jerry Perchik as its new chief legal officer and secretary. Perchik will step into the role effective April 29. He was previously chief legal officer at diagnostic imaging company MedQuest Associates, serving in the same role at CRH Healthcare LLC prior […]

Aveanna’s Home Health, Hospice ‘Turnaround’

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAH) has seen improvement within its hospice and home health segment. The company anticipates this momentum to continue despite ongoing inflation and labor headwinds. The last two years have brought some turbulence in Aveanna’s hospice and home health admissions and revenues. The end of 2023 saw revenues start to normalize, […]

Aveanna Healthcare’s ‘Strong, Disciplined’ Hospice Growth

Though hospice is a smaller segment for Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAH), it remains a stronghold in the company’s strategic growth plans and a key to leveraging its value proposition among payers. Aveanna’s home health and hospice segment has had mixed results thus far this year, but saw recent improvement, along with its other […]

Despite Headwinds, Aveanna Still Sees Big Upside to Its Home Health and Hospice Business

It wasn’t too long ago when Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAH) was a company mostly focused on in-home care to pediatric populations. When the Atlanta-based provider filed to go public in April 2021, however, it revealed ambitious plans to expand into the arenas of Medicare-certified home health and hospice care. “We believe that we […]

Hospice Providers Expanding with Inpatient Units, De Novos

Aveanna Opens Hospice De Novo Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAH) has opened a de novo in Greenville, Alabama. Through the new location, Aveanna provides advanced palliative care and hospice to community-based patients. The home health and hospice provider will also offer bereavement and family support services to the community, as well as 24/7 on-call […]

Aveanna Execs: ‘Still in a Slugfest’ for Labor

Staffing and reimbursement headwinds remain sticking points for Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAH) home health and hospice margins. The company’s margins for that segment fell to 44.6% in Q1 from 48.7% during the same period in 2022. But payer relationships will be a key to thwarting these pressures, according to executives. Though Aveanna’s home […]

Aveanna’s Labor Pains Easing as Hospice Revenue Grows

High labor costs have whittled into Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAH)’s growth potential. But the company may be gaining ground on recruitment, retention and revenue. Similar to many hospice providers, Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered Aveanna has been focused on recovering from staffing punches that knocked down patient volumes throughout last year. Recruitment and retention were among […]