Autism Therapy Provider Hopebridge Changes Hands Again
Autism treatment companies are still hot targets in 2019. Eight transactions have been announced so far this year, compared with 20 in all of 2018. (That was an outsized year for every healthcare sector. There were nine deals for autism targets in 2017.) Private equity firms are trading platforms in this sub-sector. Just this year, Gryphon Investors bought Learn Behavioral from LLR Partners for an undisclosed amount. Now there’s the deal between Baird Capital and Arsenal Capital Partners for Hopebridge LLC. Hopebridge LLC was launched in 2005 in Indianapolis, Indiana to serve the growing need for autism treatment services. The clinic-based autism therapy business provides Applied... Read More »
BayMark Health Keeps Buying
BayMark Health Services, a portfolio company of Webster Equity Partners (formerly known as Webster Capital), is still on the acquisition trail, even as it is reportedly prepping for a sales process. In its first deal announced in 2019, BayMark targeted Recovery Services of New Mexico, based in Albuquerque. Recovery Services offers opioid treatment programs for patients around the state. It has three traditional opioid treatment programs, one office-based treatment program and a fifth location inside of Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center. BayMark provides medication-assisted treatment for opiate addiction and dependency to thousands of patients nationwide. It is the largest... Read More »
Gryphon Investors Gets into Autism Treatment with Learn Behavioral
Learn Behavioral, formerly Learn-It Systems, has a new owner. Gryphon Investors acquired a majority stake in the behavioral health company from LLR Partners in mid-March. Financial terms weren’t disclosed, of course, but the deal wasn’t cheap. This is Gryphon’s first investment in the Behavioral Health Care space. LLR put the company up for sale in late October 2018. Even with this deal announcement, LLR hasn’t exited the autism-treatment company completely. The firm and Learn senior management will maintain minority stakes alongside Gryphon. Based in Baltimore, Learn Behavioral’s primary focus is the delivery of applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy to... Read More »
AbleTo, Inc. Acquires Digital Therapy Platform Joyable
Behavioral health care is starting to take a new form, and it might even fit in our pocket. AbleTo, Inc., a technology-enabled behavioral health care company, announced its purchase of Joyable for an undisclosed sum. Joyable operates an app-based digital therapy platform that provides patients and users with mental health support and guidance. Behavioral health and digital health have overlapped in recent years, and this deal is just more evidence that behavioral health care is changing. AbleTo aims to strengthen its virtual behavioral health care with a digital platform that delivers clinically-based therapies. AbleTo provides treatment virtually through a network of more than 600... Read More »
HealthDrive Acquires New England Geriatrics
Bain Capital Double Impact and HealthDrive are wasting no time to expand. Although the private equity firm just acquired Healthdrive back in January, the portfolio company announced in February that it’s acquired New England Geriatrics. Founded in 1989, HealthDrive provides on-site dentistry, optometry, podiatry and audiology services to residents in long-term care facilities. New England Geriatrics will complement those services with its psychiatric services, currently provided to more than 13,000 patients in over 129 geropsychiatric hospital units, long-term care facilities, rest homes and assisted living facilities throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. With a new behavioral... Read More »Schedule a demo
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