Aveanna’s Home Health, Hospice Business Takes Punches During First Year as Publicly Traded Company

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AVAH) hospice and home health segments saw small jumps in the third quarter, but these lagged behind the company’s growth targets. The end of this year’s Q1 marked Aveanna’s first year as a publicly traded organization. Founded in 2017, the company launched a $458.8 million initial public offering (IPO) last […]

Comfort Care Deal Boosts Aveanna Amid Persistent Labor Pressures

Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ: AVAH) is seeing strong returns from its hospice and home health acquisitions while continuing to battle labor headwinds. Industry-wide, workforce pressures from staff shortages and rising wages have not relented. While clinical staff were dwindling prior to the pandemic, the pace accelerated when COVID-19 struck. The surges that occurred late last year […]

Aveanna Completes $345 Million Comfort Care Acquisition

Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ: AVAH) has completed its acquisition of Comfort Care Home Health for $345 million. Comfort Care provides hospice and home health care in Alabama and Tennessee. Aveanna was born in 2017 through the merger of Epic Health Services and Pediatric Health Services and since then has scaled its business by a factor of […]