As new construction and development remains hard in 2025, some senior living companies are expanding home-based services as a way to grow and serve more older adults in the meantime. Senior living operators growing home-based services in the year ahead include Goodwin Living, 2Life Communities and Juniper Communities. Providing home-based services, including home care and […]
Category: Home Healthcare
Atria Senior Living, one of the largest U.S. senior living providers, is closing down its home care business. The home care arm of Atria exclusively serves New York state, including Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties. Atria initially acquired this home care business in 2007 as part of a larger acquisition, […]
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is seeking to bolster Medicare with a new benefit helping to pay for home care. During an appearance on ABC’s “The View” Tuesday, Kamala Harris announced a new Medicare home-based care benefit that focuses on helping the “sandwich generation,” or adults who are caring for their aging parents while also […]
Living in communal senior housing is associated with greater longevity versus residing in the community at large – but there is notable variation between top-performing senior housing communities and those on the bottom. These are among the newly released findings from research conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago and funded by the National […]
Goodwin Living’s future lies in expanding health service offerings as the senior living provider keeps its focus on staffing and other operational efforts. The Alexandria, Virginia-based organization is a faith-based nonprofit that operates three communities in the northern Virginia area serving approximately 1,100 residents with a full continuum of care. Goodwin Living also manages a […]
I recently wrote about the senior living implications of Option Care’s planned acquisition of home health giant Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED). The situation became even more interesting last week, with UnitedHealth Group’s Optum arm making an all-cash play for Amedisys.This news makes it more evident than ever that senior living providers must have business strategies that […]
The last week brought major health care business news — including the creation of a new home health giant valued at nearly $10 billion — that bears careful consideration by senior living providers. The new at-home care organization is being created through the merger of Option Care Health (Nasdaq: OPCH), a major provider of home […]
Lifespark is acquiring in-home health company Livio Health in a move that will both link it to insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and further its value-based care strategy. With the deal, St. Louis Park, Minnesota-based Lifespark is gaining Livio as a new home health company as well as 1,500 patients and a […]
Former Aegis Living President Kris Engskov is launching a new home-based behavioral health company called Rippl. Engskov, who previously worked as president of senior living operator Aegis Living, is leading the new Seattle-based company as CEO. With the announcement of the launch, the company also announced it had raised $32 million in seed-round funding, with […]
Less than one month after its nearly $4 billion One Medical acquisition, Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is reportedly in contention to make another big deal. The online retail and tech giant is among the bidders of in-home health care company Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY), according to The Wall Street Journal. Amazon joins a group of powerhouse […]