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Tailwind Capital Takes Over Abode Healthcare

Tailwind Capital Takes Over Abode Healthcare

The Home Health & Hospice sector is experiencing strong tailwinds this year, with at least 38 transactions announced through May 25. In all of 2017, 62 deals were announced in this sector. Seven of this year’s transactions were direct acquisitions by private equity firms, with Blue Wolf Capital and Stonehenge Partners announcing two deals each. In May, Tailwind Capital, a New York City-based middle market private equity firm, announced its acquisition of Abode Healthcare, based in Durango, Arizona. Abode Healthcare, a portfolio company of Frazier Healthcare Partners, provides a full spectrum of patient-centric hospice and home health services in growing markets in 10 states. The... Read More »
Anthem Adds Aspire Health to Its Care Roster

Anthem Adds Aspire Health to Its Care Roster

Anthem Inc. (NYSE: ANTM) isn’t sitting still while other managed care companies scoop up physician practices and post-acute services. The Indianapolis-based health insurer announced on May 23 that it will acquire Aspire Health, the nation’s largest non-hospice, community based palliative care provider. Financial terms were not disclosed. Aspire Health was founded in 2013 by former U.S. Senator and physician William Frist (R-TN) and Brad Smith. The latter serves as CEO of the company. Aspire currently provides services under contracts with more than 20 health plans to consumers in 25 states. The company uses proprietary predictive clinical and claims-based patient algorithms to... Read More »
Home Health & Hospice’s Biggest Deals

Home Health & Hospice’s Biggest Deals

As a prelude to our interactive webinar, “Home Health & Hospice M&A: The Latest Trends,” on May 24, we put together a chart on the largest U.S. deals in the sector since 1993, when our database was created. The result is a map of the mergers and acquisitions that bring us to today’s frenzied home health & hospice market. Our panel includes Jim Glynn, CEO of Jet Health, Inc.; Mark Kulik, managing director of The Braff Group; and Burk Lindsay, managing director of Raymond James. Join us as we discuss the latest deals, the wild valuations, and what lies ahead in this sector. The largest transactions, measured as $1 billion or more, were all announced in the past... Read More »
Healthcare Services Roundup through April 2018

Healthcare Services Roundup through April 2018

It’s been quite a year for healthcare deals in general, with nearly 600 announced transactions in the first four months. That’s 7% more than there were announced in the first four months of 2017. Dollar volume has soared, too. In 2018, $141.8 billion has already been committed to fund the 588 transactions. Thanks to some mega-billion-dollar deals in 2018, the total is 30% greater than the nearly $109 billion spent in the same period of 2017. Collectively, the Services sectors are booming, which isn’t always the case. Services deals made up 63% of all deals in the first four months of 2018, and 57% of the disclosed dollars, now at $81.3 billion. The Technology sectors... Read More »
Anthem Adds Aspire Health to Its Care Roster

Welltower and ProMedica Buy QCP and HCRMC

Toledo, Ohio is a hotbed of healthcare deal making, all of a sudden. Three companies based there joined together to carve up HCR ManorCare, the financially beleauered tenant of Toledo-based Quality Care Properties, Inc. (NYSE: QCP). Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL) and not-for-profit ProMedica Health System joined the fray, and it became one complicated deal. Quality Care Properties was spun out from HCP, Inc. in October 2016, taking with it HCP’s skilled nuring assets, most of which were operated by HCR ManorCare (HCRMC). As of December 31, 2017, QCP owned 259 skilled nursing facilities with 22,205 beds, 59 assisted living/memory care communities with 3,843 units, one 37-bed surgical... Read More »
Tailwind Capital Takes Over Abode Healthcare

Home Health & Hospice Deals Up 50% in Q1:18

After three straight quarters of relatively low home health and hospice merger and acquisition activity, the first quarter of 2018 saw 21 publicly announced transactions. This was a 50% increase from the fourth quarter of 2017 (14 transactions), but just a 5% increase from the year-ago quarter (20 transactions), according to new data from HealthCareMandA.com. Only three of the 21 transactions in this year’s first quarter disclosed a price, and the total was a small $46.1 million. This was similar to last year’s first quarter total of $20.9 million, but not comparable to last year’s fourth quarter when nearly $4.1 billion was announced encompassing just two acquisitions. During the first... Read More »