Help at Home employed nearly 800 caregivers scattered across every county in Alabama, helping 1,100 older and disabled clients with activities such as bathing, housework and meal preparation. And then ...

Advocate Health’s investment arm, Advocate Aurora Enterprises, acquired Senior Helpers in April 2021. Advocate’s president and co-CEO, Jim Skogsbergh, said the purchase of Senior Helpers would allow ...

Private equity (PE) in health care is increasingly being viewed as a profit-driven horseman of the apocalypse. While this portrayal is merited in many respects, PE can also play a positive role in ...

Providence Health & Services is spinning off its home health, hospice, and palliative care programs into a joint venture with a private equity-backed, for-profit company. The Catholic nonprofit ...

For years, private equity has systematically taken over health systems nationwide, claiming they can cut costs while maintaining quality care. The results have been devastating. Nursing home mortality ...

Private equity firms continued to invest in healthcare at a steady pace last year, undeterred by increased regulatory scrutiny or high interest rates, according to a new study from the Private Equity ...

Steward Health Care was once the largest private hospital system in the country. When the private equity-backed network filed for bankruptcy last year, it devastated providers and patients. In ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba report that collaboration between home health care institutions and private after-hours ...

Woolhandler and Himmelstein are professors at the City University of New York’s Hunter College and lecturers in medicine at Harvard Medical School; Schrier and Schwartz are medical residents at the ...

Alison Kuznitz is a reporter for State House News Service, a Massachusetts wire service that’s offered accounts on the activities of state government since 1894. The pressure points inflicted by ...

WASHINGTON — Professional caregivers and veterans groups argued over the merits of private medical care versus care at the Department of Veterans Affairs during an emotional House Veterans’ Affairs ...