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ROSEVILLE, California—Always Best Care Senior Services, a senior care franchise system in the United States, announced the opening of its fourth location in Illinois. Always Best Care of Northwest Chicago is owned and operated by local businessman Ali Asmi. The new business provides non-medical in-home care and assisted living referral services to Chicago, Melrose Park, River Grove and Harwood Heights.
DALLAS—AccentCare, a post-acute health care provider, announced Laura Tortorella will join the organization as CEO on Oct. 2. Current CEO Steve Rodgers will step down after 11 years and serve as an advisor through the remainder of 2023 to allow for a successful transition.
SAN JOSE, California—HealthEM.AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) driven care management data platform company committed to streamlining care delivery and optimizing cost of care, announced a strategic partnership with WellBe Senior Medical, an organization delivering home-based medical care for older patients with multiple comorbidities.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee—Luna, a provider of in-home, in-person physical therapy, and Adventist Health Simi Valley, a nonprofit, integrated health system serving more than 80 communities on the West Coast, announced a partnership to improve access to in-home, in-person outpatient physical therapy across the greater Los Ange
MINNEAPOLIS and DANVILLE, Pa.—Best Buy Health and Geisinger announced that they will expand their work together to bring care to more patients within the Geisinger network.
MINNEAPOLIS & DANVILLE, Pennsylvania—Building on the success of delivering in-home care for patients with chronic conditions through Geek Squad, Best Buy Health&n
BRENTWOOD, Tennessee—IntellaTriage, a provider of after-hours nursefirst triage services for hospice and home health, named Tony Schulte as chief operating officer in July. Schulte will oversee all departments on the operations team at IntellaTriage including quality assurance, training and education, workforce management and a team of hospice and home health Triage Nurses nationwide, with more than 250 nurses and growing.
NEW YORK—HHAeXchange, a provider of homecare management solutions for providers, managed care organizations (MCOs) and state Medicaid agencies, announced it has named technology veteran,
LOS ANGELES—M&A Healthcare Advisors (MAHA) announced the sale of Advent Home Health, an award-winning home health provider located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since 2008, Advent has been owned and operated by Salvador Agonias and his family.
LONDON—CareLineLive, an all-in-one homecare management software company, announced its acquisition of the business behind CareFor IT and Ulysses (UDMS).
WASHINGTON—Home health agencies didn’t report more than half of the falls that Medicare home health patients hospitalized for falls with major injury experienced, according to a new study by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
LAS VEGAS—Intermountain Health’s acquisition of Advent Home Health, a home health agency in southern Nevada, has been finalized and Advent Home Health is now officially part of Intermountain.
LAS VEGAS—In one of the biggest organizing drives in recent history, more than 1,000 Nevada homecare workers have already voted or are taking part in landslide union elections at multiple employers.
BISMARCK, North Dakota—Titan Health Corporation (Titan), an organization focused on addressing gaps in health care, announced the launch of The Learnery. Leveraging the latest learning research and methodology, The Learnery is a microlearning software platform that aims to empower learners to acquire and retain information more effectively over time.
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky—CenterWell Senior Primary Care is now offering seniors in select Georgia and Louisiana locations access to primary care in their homes through its new CenterWell Primary Care Anywhere program. Primary Care Anywhere builds on capabilities gained through the early 2023 acquisition of Heal, an organization focused on delivering primary care in the home.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee—Luna, a provider of in-home, in-patient physical therapy, announced details of a new study, which showed that Luna Pathways, a comprehensive approach to postoperative care that includes monitored scheduling and clinical care coordination, decreases pain by 30% compared to industry benchmarks after total joint replacement.
ATLANTA—TZMO USA announced the recent promotions of Suzi Fox and Patty Mitchell to regional sales managers for its Seni USA brand. Fox will be responsible for managing all U.S. sales-related activities in the Western region while Mitchell will manage all sales-related activities in the Eastern region.
DALLAS—Axxess, a technology innovator for health care at home, has become the first care at home technology company providing comprehensive solutions that address the entire continuum of care to earn HITRUST certification. HITRUST independently reviews and verifies secure data management by health care organizations. Through a year-long process, HITRUST has verified that Axxess is meeting necessary data privacy and security requirements.
