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The grants support organizations that coordinate public transportation for underserved groups

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $7.8 million for 17 projects that will improve public transportation for people with disabilities, older adults and low-income individuals. One of the projects included pertains to increasing access to home health organizations in South Dakota. 

The collaboration will advance the shared objective of offering patients enhanced access to comfortable & convenient care

PLANO, Texas—Choice Health at Home (Choice), a home health, hospice, personal care provider specializing in the treatment of patients in the comfort and convenience of their own home, announced a partnership with Resilient Healthcare (Resilient), a tech-enabled health care company that delivers high-quality care to patients’ homes and communities virtually and in person. This partnership will provide Choice access to a suite of digital health technologies and hospital-at-home programs.

Caring Senior Service is one of only 100 franchises selected by Entrepreneur for the Top Franchises for DEI based on information the company submitted & the magazine editors' independent research

SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Caring Senior Service, a non-medical homecare services company, has been named one of Entrepreneur magazine’s Top 100 Franchises for diversity, equity and inclusion for 2024.

Always Best Care recently held its annual conference & honored the caregiving teams across the country that achieve excellence in in-home senior care every day

ROSEVILLE, California—Always Best Care Senior Services, a senior care franchise system in the United States, held its annual conference in April, gathering in Austin, Texas, at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa. In addition to educational breakout sessions and roundtables focused on ideas for business growth, the conference included many opportunities for celebrating a year that led to 12% sales growth for the brand in 2023.

HouseWorks to partner with leading brands Companions, Homemakers & Companions Forever

BOSTON—HouseWorks Holdings, LLC (the company), a personal care services platform serving the northeast, announces that it has acquired the Connecticut Personal Care Division (brands Companions and Homemakers, LLC. and Companions Forever, LLC.) of AccordCare, a national provider of homecare and certified home health. With this acquisition, HouseWorks enters Connecticut, expanding the company’s geographic footprint while offering compelling opportunities for future growth.

Event highlights the power of coordinated, personalized senior care

ORLANDO, Florida—A new joint venture between InnovAge and Orlando Health will be officially announced at the grand opening of InnovAge Florida PACE-Orlando, on Wednesday, May 29. InnovAge, the industry leader in serving high-cost, complex care seniors, introduces PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) to the Orlando market, bringing its 30 years of experience operating PACE programs, helping seniors with medical, financial, social, and emotional care and support.

The new innovation helps improve health care employee retention & engagement through incentive-based rewards

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas & NEW YORK—WellSky, a health and community care technology company, announced the release of WellSky TeamEngage powered by Ava, a new innovation for home-based care providers aimed at increasing employee retention, reliability and recruitment through gamification.

IntellaTriage has launched an innovative data integration with CommonSpirit Health at Home

BRENTWOOD, Tennessee—IntellaTriage, a provider of nurse-first hospice and home health triage solutions, and CommonSpirit Health at Home (CSHaH), one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health care systems, went live with a secure integration between Homecare Homebase and IntellaTriage’s triage platform, IntellaHub. Partners since 2022, the companies recognized that a deeper integration of their systems could greatly enhance their shared mission of improving patient and caregiver experiences.

RiverSpring failed to provide required services, failed to adequately document provision of services, to members of its managed long-term care plan

NEW YORK—A U.S. District Attorney in New York state announced the settlement of a civil fraud lawsuit against Riverspring Living Holding Corp. and Elderserve Health, Inc., two not-for-profit corporations that run a managed long-term care plan (MLTCP) for Medicaid beneficiaries.

Homecare agencies that work in assisted living or nursing home communities can now use Rosemark for caregiver management & patient care

ANN ARBOR, Michigan—For homecare agencies that staff facilities, or for nursing homes and assisted living communities that need caregivers to clock in and out for specific shifts, Rosemark recently added functionality to its homecare software system to help meet those needs.

The Stevie Award is a recognition from the American Business Awards

BURKBURNETT, Texas—HomeWell Care Services, a national homecare provider, clinched the Silver Stevie Award from the American Business Awards (ABA) for its consumer website launched last December. Based on a 3-month evaluation from more than 300 professionals worldwide, the Stevie Award is a recognition from the ABA, affirming the franchise’s revamped online presence.

Investigation finds Caring Hearts Health Care Services denied 159 workers full wages

COLLINGDALE, Pennsylvania—The Department of Labor (DOL) has obtained a consent judgment in federal court that orders a Delaware County homecare agency to pay more than $1 million in back wages, liquidated damages and penalties after the department found the employer shortchanged 159 workers of their earned wages. 

AREX said it believes Enhabit’s shares do not reflect its intrinsic value or strategic Potential

NEW YORK—AREX Capital Management, LP (“AREX Capital Management” or “we”), together with its affiliates, the owners of approximately 4.8% of the shares of Enhabit, Inc. (Enhabit), issued the below statement expressing its disappointment in the conclusion of Enhabit’s strategic review.