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VITAS Bullish on Hospice, Palliative Care Acquisitions Following Covenant Deal

Hospice News

VITAS earlier this month completed its $85 million acquisition of Covenant Health and Community Services’ hospice operations and one assisted living facility location. (NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare is ramping up its strategic growth plans in both hospice and palliative care amid rising demand for these services.

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How New Day Healthcare Is Rethinking Home-Based Care Delivery

Hospice News

Assisted living facilities were restricted. We do anticipate significant M&A activity in the near future and into 2025. Given that timing, we often rethink everything about home care when we’re facing a pandemic that is rapidly changing home care and hospice delivery dynamics. At the time, facilities were closed.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So you can go to skilled facility for short rehab- But if you are permanently living in a nursing home. But if you’re in assisted living, yes. If you are independent living, yes. And they can start July of 2025. And you cannot be in a nursing home. Not the skilled. The intermediary care. Long-term care.

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