January 19-22, 2025 | JW Marriott Marco Island, FL
Welcome
We have assembled this “Cocktail Book” –a unique book of company and personal profiles – to introduce you to Home Care 100 attendees and their companies.
You’ll find two key questions: What do you want to share with Home Care 100 attendees? And what would you like to learn from them? These are followed by two lighter personal questions.
We hope you find the end product to be both a useful and enjoyable way to get to know your peers.
I look forward to seeing you in Florida!
Managing Director Home Care 100
Disclaimer: Company information has been supplied directly by attendees without independent verification. The Home Care 100 Cocktail Book is for distribution solely to Home Care 100 attendees. Reproduction of this information for any other use is prohibited without the written consent of Lincoln Healthcare Leadership.
Many Thanks to the Home Care 100 Advisory Board
Darby Anderson EVP & Chief Government Relations Officer
Addus HomeCare
Emmanuel Azariah COO HospiceMD
Carla Davis
Kent Anderson CEO Ohio’s Hospice
Jed Cheney Principal CLA
Mike Dordick SVP Post-Acute Strategy & President, McBee Netsmart/McBee
Bruce Greenstein EVP, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer LHC Group
Luke James President VitalCaring Group
Ryan Iwamoto President & Co-Founder 24 Hour Home Care
Mike Johnson Chief Researcher, Home Care Innovation
BAYADA Home Health Care
Tim Ashe Chief Clinical Officer WellSky
Mark Crick Field VP Strategic Accounts McKesson Med-Surg
Linn Free SVP Operations & Franchise Development Honor
Barbara Jacobsmeyer CEO Enhabit Home Health & Hospice
Sundar Kannan CEO & President KanTime
Many Thanks to the Home Care 100 Advisory Board
Barbara Knott VP Continuing Care Services UNC Health
Andrew Molosky President & CEO Chapters Health System
Scott Powers CEO Elara Caring
Brady Schwab Chief Growth Officer Right at Home
Bill Simione III CEO SimiTree
Si Luo CEO CareXM, LLC
John Olajide Founder & CEO Axxess
Luke Rutledge President Homecare Homebase
Jeff Shaner CEO Aveanna Healthcare
Nick Westfall President & CEO VITAS Healthcare
Mark McPherson President & CEO Sutter Care at Home
Susan Ponder-Stansel President & CEO Alivia Care
Daniel Savitt President & CEO VNS Health
Jennifer Sheets CEO & Founder, Carezzi & Home Care 100 Intelligence Group Executive Advisor
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2025 Home Care 100 Attendance Summary
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Provider Executives
Provider Companies
Please Note: The attendee list included in this Cocktail Book is as of December 6, 2024. Please see Home Care 100 Attendee Resources for the most up-to-date attendee list: homecare100.com/attendee-resources.
2025 Home Care 100 Intelligence Group Members
(as of December 6, 2024)
Providers
Alivia Care (Community Hospice)
ArchCare
Care Dimensions
CenterWell Home Health
CommonSpirit Health at Home
Compassus
Empath Health
Gentiva Health Services
LifeCare Home Health Family
New Day Healthcare
Pinnacle Home Care
Right at Home
RVNAhealth
Senior Helpers
Sutter Care at Home
THERAPY 2000
UNC Health
Vivie
VNS Health
Well Care Health
Wilshire Health & Community Services
Conference Partners
Apricot
CareAcademy
IntellaTriage
KanTime
Perry
Select Data
2025 Home Care 100 Provider Organizations
(as of December 6,
2025 Home Care 100 Provider Organizations
(as of December 6, 2024)
2025 Home Care 100 Provider Organizations
(as of December 6, 2024)
2025 Home Care 100 Provider Organizations
2025 Home Care 100 Provider Organizations
(as of December 6, 2024)
2025 Home Care 100 Provider Organizations
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Scott Adams TwinMed
Shradha Aiyer Axxess
Ken Albert Andwell Health Partners
Kirk Allen Humana
Larry Allen Pinnacle Home Care
Todd Allen AxisCare
John Allgood Brentwood Capital Partners
Nizar Allibhoy Kerry Care
Sema Almashhadani OnePoint Patient Care
Spouse/Guest
Dean Alverson LifeCare Home Health Family Donna Brunett
Darby Anderson Addus HomeCare
Dave Anderson Roper St. Francis Healthcare Brandy
Mark Anderson Vivie Sally
Anita Angstadt New Day Healthcare William (Bill)
Anitha Arockiasamy Red Road Healthcare Business Solutions
Tim Ashe WellSky
Richard Ashworth Amedisys
Jeffrey (Jeff) Aspacher New Day Healthcare Paula
Mike Asselta Compassus Lynnet
John Atkinson AxisCare
Alexandra Augustin Red Road Healthcare Business Solutions
Jon Austin Centric Home Health and Hospice
Melissa Avilez Medline Industries, LP
Emmanuel Azariah HospiceMD
David Baiada BAYADA Home Health Care
Erik Bailey Goodworks Erin
Eni Bakallbashi MJHS Hospice & Palliative Care
John David Ball Outreach Health
Jason Banks nVoq
Andrew Bar Dragonfly Health
Samara Barend AION Biosystems
Heath Bartness St. Croix Hospice
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Emilie Bartolucci Vista Care
Jarrett Bauer Health Recovery Solutions (HRS)
Mari Baxter Senior Helpers
Therasa Bell Kno2
Kenneth Benton Ziegler
Cathy Berg Visiting Angels | Living Assistance Services
Darren Bertram Infinity Hospice Care
Jake Biddle Bristol Hospice
Billy Bindel TwinMed
Kelly Bishop Axxess
Clark Blair Legacy Hospice Operating Company
Jackie Blair Visiting Nurse Health System
Cliff Blessing Addus HomeCare
Andrea Bohannon Three Oaks Hospice
Jackie Bollmann Zebra Technologies
Jeff Bonham New Day Healthcare
Sadia Bouhamid Empath Health
Alicia Bowman Pennant Services
Sherl Brand National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance)
Bob Braun Netsmart/McBee
Joe Brence MedBridge
Brandon Breslow Houlihan Lokey
Drew Bringhurst Hospice Dynamix
Melissa Broadway Bristol Hospice
Steve Brody Medline Industries, LP
Jake Brown Always Best Care
Grant Brown Care Hospice
Patrick Brown Sutter Care at Home
Jennifer Brullo VNS Westchester
Ed Buckley
Select Data
Rebecca Burnett California Hospice and Palliative Care Association
Mark Bush Care Options for Kids
Lori Cabbage BrightStar Care
Spouse/Guest
Cameron
Kim
Shannon
Heidi
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Rob Caione HCS-Girling
Ryan Cannon Four Seasons
Ross Caplet MedBridge
Justin Carr HouseWorks
Amy Cassata Swift Medical
June Castle Nascentia Health
Matt Challberg Tallio
Spouse/Guest
Jared Chandler AnewHealth Kristen
Susan Chapman Moss BAYADA Home Health Care
Moiead Charawi Nestmed
Solomon Charles HospiceMD
Christina Chartrand Senior Helpers
Jed Cheney CLA
Jess Chew Trella Health
Laurie Chichester MJHS Hospice & Palliative Care
James Clark Harris Williams
Ben Clarke BetterRX
Mandy Cogswell St. Croix Hospice
James Cohen Nevvon
Matt Cohn Alliant Insurance Services, Inc.
Angela Collins Bristol Hospice
Chris Comeaux Teleios Collaborative Network
Dan Conger Enzo Health
David Cook Everent Health
Stuart Cottrelle Bayshore HealthCare
Elizabeth Cramer CDW Healthcare
Mark Crick McKesson Med-Surg
Trisha Crissman CommonSpirit Health at Home Philip DeTrana
Janice Crowley Amazing Care Home Health - Skilled Services
Eddie Cruz Select Data
Rich Curry Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) Yvette Lamela
David Curtis Graham Healthcare Group
Shane Curtis MatrixCare by ResMed
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
John Dahm Accra Care
Geoff Darling AlayaCare
Jason D'Auria Chapters Health System
Spouse/Guest
Sandy Mullen
Carla Davis Mogul in Transit Jeff
Dorothy Davis Visiting Nurse Health System
Owen Davis Community Based Care
Angie Deckard CareXM, LLC
David DeGumbia Compassus
Justin DeWitte Graham Healthcare Group
Tej Dhillon Dhillon Healthcare Group
Emma Dickison Home Helpers Home Care
Benjamin Doga, MD LHC Group
Rexanne Domico Interim HealthCare
Jose Domingos Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC)
Sharon Dones HouseWorks
Mike Dordick Netsmart/McBee Melanie
Deanna Douglass Enclara Pharmacia
Dan Drake Trinity Health At Home
Ilan Dreyfuss Serent Capital
Tabitha Droddy Sage Family of Companies
Kristen Duell IDEAL for Healthcare
Jay Duty Maxwell Healthcare Associates Traci
Eyal Ephrat, MD Medical Brain
Annie Erstling Forcura
Keith Everett ProCare Hospice of Nevada
Alex Ferguson Agape Care Group
Alex Fernandez VITAS Healthcare
Lundy Fields VNA of the Treasure Coast
Tim Fields Luxe Home Health
Tom Firmani Elara Caring
Nancy Fitterer Home Care & Hospice Association of NJ
Marki Flannery CareConnect
Jonathan Fleece Empath Health
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Ian Fogg Stratix
Kathy Ford Trella Health
Michael Ford Vital Home Care & Community Home Healthcare NPO
Dean Forman VIA Health Partners
Jonas Fortenberry POM Safe
Clayton Foutch Home Matters Caregiving
Liz Fowler Everent Health
Jon Fradin HouseWorks
Diana Franchitto HopeHealth
Leonard (Linn) Free Home Instead/Honor
Barry Freeman Lincoln International
Tara Friedman Chapters Health System
Roman Fry AnewHealth
Jonny Funston LifeCare Home Health Family
Rob Furness BetterRX
Monique Gablehouse EvergreenHealth
RJ Gagnon Andwell Health Partners
Madonna Gallo SE Health
Erika Gaudio VITAS Healthcare
Chris Gerard TheKey
Jason Gerard Agape Care Group
Bobby Ghoshal MatrixCare by ResMed
Scott Ginn Amedisys
Robin Gladwill Cooperative Home Care
John Gochnour Pennant Services
Naomi Goldapple AlayaCare
Derek Gordon TheKey
Eric Gordon Element5
Alison Green Bien Chez Soi & Quebec Homecare Association
Bruce Greenstein LHC Group
Sean Gregson Aging With Comfort
Devin Griffith AuthoraCare Collective
Spouse/Guest
Jodi
Adam
Michelle
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Matthew Griffith New Day Healthcare
Abe Griffiths Tennr
Jason Growe LiveWell Partners
Jennifer Guckert Griffin Amedisys
Spouse/Guest
Steve Guenthner CareRing Health Franny
Gwen Guillotte LHC Group
Charlotte Haisch CommonSpirit Health at Home Matthew
Brad Hall IntellaTriage
Scott Hampel Medalogix
Laura Hamrick Elara Caring
Tim Hanold Care Advantage
Teresa Harbour Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP)
Yousef Hassan Penn Home Care
Erika Haynes Stratix
Robin Heffernan Empassion
Heather Helle BAYADA Home Health Care
Chris Hendrickson Ziegler
Ben Herman LightBay Capital
Scott Herman New Day Healthcare Kimberly
Rebecca Higbee Well Care Health
Jonathan Hill Capital One – TripleTree
Sean Hill AlayaCare
Marcie Hillary NorthStar Care Community
Sina Holloman Home Care Hands
Todd Houghton Homewatch CareGivers/Authority Brands
Matt Hughes Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC)
Brad Hunter Care Hospice
Dawn Iddings nVoq
Tim Ingram Axxess
Yusef Iskandar Roger Healthcare
Ryan Iwamoto 24 Hour Home Care
Brett Jackson Bristol Hospice
David Jackson Choice Health at Home
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Barbara Jacobsmeyer Enhabit Home Health & Hospice
Brittney Jaskowiak Dragonfly Health
Cora Jaulin connectRN
Alaina Johnson Empeon
Fred Johnson Team Select Home Care
Katie Johnson Zebra Technologies
Mike Johnson BAYADA Home Health Care
Rich Johnson ViaQuest
Stephanie Johnston Transcend Strategy Group
Brian Jones Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health
Dave Jones AccordCare
Jan Jones Alleviate Care
Jason Jones MatrixCare by ResMed
Lynn Jones Mogul in Transit
Siva Juturi AutomationEdge
Andy Kaboff Homecare Homebase
Paul Kahn TheKey
Sundar Kannan KanTime
Eric Kaplan NorthStar Care Community
Joseph Katz Emerest Health/Royal Care Home Health
Mike Kearns MatrixCare by ResMed
Denise Keefe Advocate Health
Richard Keller PurposeCare
Jared Kelley Qualis
Jackie Kendrick Treasure Health
David Kerns Nestmed
Sandra Ketchen Spectrum Health Care
Doug Keyes Forcura
Armine Khudanyan QAPIplus
Brent Kiefer McKesson Med-Surg
Adrian Killebrew Axxess
Dana Killian Carolina Caring
Daniel Kim HospiceMD
Spouse/Guest
Beth
Julie
Leslie
Pallavi Vadrevu
Jamie
Greg
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Neil King CBI Home Health
Ian Klaes Caring Senior Service
David Knack Zingage
Barbara Knott UNC Health
Lara Koraian QAPIplus
Aristotle Kornaros MD at Home
Amerisa Kornblum Caring People Home Care
Brent Korte Frontpoint Health
David Kosloff Frazier Healthcare Partners
Michael Kotzen Community Based Care
Kara Krupa CareConnect
Ellen Kuebrich CareXM, LLC
Mark Kulik The Braff Group
Neal Kursban Family & Nursing Care
Brandi Kurtyka MissionCare Collective
Max Lafer HCS-Girling
Keith Lagnese Sutter Care at Home
John Laham CLA
Steven Landers, MD National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance)
Beth Landry Interim HealthCare of the Upstate
Bud Langham Enhabit Home Health & Hospice
Katrina Lanier Choice Health at Home
Josh Lawson AxisCare
Andrea Lazarek-LaQuay Nascentia Health
AJ Leahy POM Safe
Patrick Leary Enclara Pharmacia
Mark Lee Skyscape/BUZZ
Darren Lehrich Help At Home
Johanna Lent Care Dimensions
Jen Lentz Avid Health at Home
Scott Leopold Parachute Health
Les Levinson Robinson & Cole LLP
Scott Levy Amedisys
Spouse/Guest
Patrick Shiel
Lisa
Lu
Andrea
Nathan
Caitlin Faughnan
Thomas
Glenda
Patrick
Joan
Candace
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
M. Aaron Little Forvis Mazars
Wes Little WellSky
Elaine Liu Court Square Capital Partners
Dan Locker Red Road Healthcare Business Solutions
Zac Long Well Care Health
Lucy Lopez KanTime
Jim Lord First Choice In-Home Care
Thomas (TJ) Lord First Choice In-Home Care
Robert Love Butte Home Health - and Skilled and Hospice
Arthur Lowry Amazing Care Home Health - Skilled Services
Spouse/Guest
Tarrah Lowry Empath Health Jake Torres
Si Luo CareXM, LLC
August Luptak St. Croix Hospice
David Maiorana Interim Healthcare of the Upstate
Craig Mandeville Forcura
Cheryl Manna Nascentia Health
Dave Marchand New Day Healthcare Starr
Alicia Marr Excelin Health
Rachel Marshall CareXM, LLC
Will Martin AxisCare
Ruth Martynowicz Trinity Health At Home
Erin Masterson SimiTree
Chris Mate Elara Caring
Don Mathews Trinity Health At Home
Alex Mauricio Bristol Hospice
Jennifer Maxwell Maxwell Healthcare Associates
Tom Maxwell The Vistria Group
Matt McCarthy Homecare Homebase
Bryan McCormack Apploi
Charles McDonough Mission Healthcare
Matt McGinty CareConnect
Heather McGowan Keynote Speaker, Author
Kraig McKinley WellSky
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Robert McMullan Care Hospice
Mark McPherson Sutter Care at Home
Kate Mercier NVNA
Kathy Messerli MN HomeCare Association
James Metcalf Bailey & Company
Tess Michaels Clasp
Spouse/Guest
Alex Milani StenoHealth Megan
Justin Miller New Day Healthcare Mandy
Patrick Miller NorthStar Care Community
Susan Mills Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC)
Irina Mitzner Northwell Health
Ananth Mohan Elara Caring
Steve Molinari WellSky Carrie
Andrew Molosky Chapters Health System
Joe Mooney St. Croix Hospice Jen
Mark Morse Enclara Pharmacia
Ryan Moseley Cressey & Company
Linda Murphy Concierge Home Care
Nick Muscato Amedisys
Satheesh Nair KanTime
Brent Nash Elara Caring
Kristin Nelson Dragonfly Health
James Newbrough Sholom
Zach Newman Enzo Health
Tawny Nichols Select Data
Adam Nielsen Pediatric Home Service
Cathlynn Nigh
BEYOND HC LLC Raymond Biondo
Sara Nigro BetterRX Ross
Jonathan Nofsinger Medalogix
Kris Novak The Braff Group
Heather Nydam Sibley Acacia Home Health & Hospice
David Oberdorf Capital One – TripleTree
Bret Sibley
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
David Ochoa Centric Home Health and Hospice
Chris O'Donnell Medalogix
Jenn Ofelt UnityPoint at Home
John Olajide Axxess
Hajo Oltmanns Adtalem Global Education
Alex Oosterveen Caribou Rewards
Tim O'Rourke Help At Home
Barak Oshri Nestmed
Spouse/Guest
Sarah Overton OSF Home Health and Hospice Brian
Andrew Packer CareConnect
Gio Pagano IntellaTriage
Andrew Pagsisihan All Care Provider
Kevin Palamara Provident Healthcare Partners, LLC
Jeannee Parker Martin LeadingAge California
Ankeet Patel Shore Capital
Stephanie Patel, MD Care Dimensions
Bivek Pathak Empath Health
Hannah Patterson Netsmart/McBee
Hannah Pearson Homecare Homebase
Forrest Perkins CareXM, LLC
Katie Perry Vivie Chad
KristyAnn Pfister Cooperative Home Care
Stephen Phenneger St. Croix Hospice
Renee Picard Walsh Vesta Healthcare
Sudeep Pisipaty Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) Pooja Pokharna
Kathy Poland New Day Healthcare
Whit Polley CareRing Health
Susan Ponder-Stansel Alivia Care
Mike Porpora OnePoint Patient Care
Troy Powell Roper St. Francis Healthcare Charla
Scott Powers Elara Caring Sarah
Brent Poythress McKesson Med-Surg
Mary Pradilla Atlantic Visiting Nurse
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Sherri Rains CenterWell Home Health
Marshalina Ramos Premier Home Health - Skilled Care Services
Joe Randesi Element5
Felix Rauch Edison Partners
Daniel Reese IntellaTriage
Josh Reilly Linden Capital Partners
Darlene Reinke UKG
Peter Ricciardi Spectrum Health Care
Jessica Riggs Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health
Brenda Riordan VNS Health
Gil Rivas Life Detection Technology
Mike Roach Lifespace Communities
Ray Roberts McKesson Med-Surg
Jared Robey Worldview, Ltd.
Jason Rodeghero OSF Home Health and Hospice
Kevin Rogers VNA Health Group
Tim Rogers AHHC of NC & SC
Mary Kate Rolf Nascentia Health
Chris Roode Dragonfly Health
Hank Ross Ross Holdings, LLC
John Ross Spectrum Health Care
Peter Ross Senior Helpers
Ryan Ross Team Select Home Care
Bob Roth Cypress HomeCare Solutions
Elie Roz Apploi
Luke Rutledge Homecare Homebase
Matt Ryan Houlihan Lokey
Gustavo Saberbein Abcor Home Health
Jeff Salter Caring Senior Service
Rhonda Sanders-Allamon Empath Health
Theresa Santoro RVNAhealth
Kunal Sarda Arya
Spouse/Guest
Lindsay
Nicole Steenrod
Jim
Alison
Michelle
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Daniel Savitt VNS Health
Bryant Saxon Pennant Services
Paul Saylor Caris Healthcare
Catherine Schaefer VNS Health
Eric Scharber SimiTree
Adrian Schauer AlayaCare
Jil Schexnayder KanTime
Jennifer Schiller Research Institute for Home Care
Dave Schleicher UKG
Michelle Schmerge Equity Health
Peter Schoch, PhD Kno2
Ted Schulte Select Data
Spouse/Guest
Brady Schwab Right at Home Amy
Heather Scruggs KanTime
Nick Seabrook SimiTree
Justin Searle BAYADA Home Health Care
Kendra Seavey care.coach
Lynne Sexten Agrace Hospice & Palliative Care
Anita Shad HospiceMD
Jeff Shaner Aveanna Healthcare
Neil Sharma Swift Medical
Mark Sharp Forvis Mazars Darcey
Jennifer Sheets Mogul in Transit
Agnes Shemia HCS-Girling
Jeffrey Shemia HCS-Girling
Dan Shoemaker The Care Team
Debbie Shumway Hospice of the Valley
Fares Siddiqui Circadia Health
Mona Siddiqui, MD Highmark Health
Tami Siedler ArchCare
Merryl Siegel Northwell Health
Billy Simione III SimiTree
Aaron Sinykin Devoted Guardians
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Rick Slager Linden Capital Partners
Spouse/Guest
Trent Smith Apricot Cortney
Tricia Smith Wilshire Health & Community Services
Wes Smith Capital One – TripleTree
Tim Smokoff MatrixCare by ResMed
Bethany Snider Everent Health John
Mark Snodgrass McKesson Med-Surg
Matt Snyder SE Health
Anthony Spano Netsmart/McBee
Brandy SparkmanBeierle Homecare Homebase
Sean Spellberg HCS-Girling
Phil Spencer Mission Healthcare
Anthony Spero Caring People Home Care
Angelo Spinola Polsinelli
Maureen Spivack Excelin Health
Adam Stansell Axle Health
Eric Steege Olli Health
Jason Steik Pennant Services
Jay Stine Forvis Mazars
Brandon Stock VITAS Healthcare
Rob Stoltz Hospice Dynamix
Sam Stout KATANA Safety
David Strocchia Netsmart/McBee Jennifer
Shelly Sun Berkowitz BrightStar Care
Scott Tapp Trella Health
Chris Taylor Axxess
Adam Thomas LifeCare Home Health Family
Dale Thomas, RN MatrixCare by ResMed
Rich Tinsley Help At Home
Crissy Tohey Ascension
Susie Tombs Sutter Care at Home
Dave Totaro BAYADA Home Health Care
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Michael Trigilio HouseWorks
Suzanne Turchetti HCR Home Care
Matthew Turner Help At Home
Steve Turner Griswold Home Care
Spouse/Guest
Heather
Dean Ulizio BrightStar Care Rachael
Tom Underwood Serent Capital
Stephen Vaccaro HHAeXchange Athena
Mike Valentine Netsmart/McBee Caylee
Jerre van den Bent THERAPY 2000
Mag VanOosten Mission Healthcare
Matthew VanZelst TwinMed
Scott Vasey HarmonyCares
Jake Vesely Provident Healthcare Partners, LLC
Chris Vinciguerra Nautic Partners
Andrew Voss Polsinelli
Ginger Voss Element5
Mitch Waks Cooperative Home Care
Daniel Wacker Homecare Homebase
Jesse Walters Hillendale Home Care
Linda Ward Gulfside Healthcare Services
Phillip Ward Community Hospice & Palliative Care
Maria Warren Netsmart/McBee
Dan Weaver WellSky
Carol Weir Andwell Health Partners
Nick Westfall VITAS Healthcare
Mark Wheeler AdventHealth
Joel Wherley VITAS Healthcare
Jennifer Whitley 3HC - Home Health and Hospice Care
Curtis Wiederin Homewatch CareGivers/Authority Brands
Anne Williams Help At Home
Christine Wilson CBI Home Health
Sara Wilson Home Assist Health
Scott Witte Ok Alone
2025 Home Care 100 Attendees
(as of December 6, 2024)
Executive Company
Spouse/Guest
Elliott Wood Medalogix Cherry
Andrew Woods Liberty Partners Group
Bryan Wright AdventHealth
Bryan Wysong VITAS Healthcare
Troy Yarborough Agape Care Group
Kristen Yntema AuthoraCare Collective
Charles Young Synergy HomeCare
Jason Yu Levo
Dong Zhao LiveWell Partners
Dean Zimberg Perry
Jeff Zukerman Family & Nursing Care Jennifer
24 Hour Home Care
El Segundo, CA 24hrcares.com
24 Hour Home Care is an in-home care company committed to making a positive impact in people’s lives every day. Since 2008, it has delivered high-quality and personalized caregiving services to seniors and individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Its family of brands provides caregiving services to more than 23,000 clients each month
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 23,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $560MM
States Operating In: AZ, CA, CO, KS, NM, OR @24hrhomecare
Ryan Iwamoto President & Co-Founder
ryan@24hrcares.com
I’d like to share: When in doubt, say hello! You never know who you will meet and the opportunities you may unlock with that handshake. • I’d like to learn: Your individual stories and the learning lessons along the way. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Winners in our industry always find new ways to win despite the circumstance. Those that are losing always use their current condition as to why they lose. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Growing up in Los Angeles, nothing beat the beach—boogie boarding and messing around in the sand was prime living
3HC - Home Health and Hospice Care
Goldsboro, NC 3hc.org
3HC is a not-for-profit freestanding home health and hospice agency serving 24 counties in eastern North Carolina. Our strongest features include longevity in the community (43 years), strong name recognition of our inpatient hospice facility, and serving others on a continuum of care. Currently we are focused on serving more people within our footprint and improving market share
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 2,100
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $50MM
States Operating In: NC
Jennifer Whitley President & CEO
jwhitley@3hc.org
I’d like to share: I have recently been appointed CEO at 3HC and this is my first Home Care 100 experience. I am excited to network and learn a great deal from this experience! • I’d like to learn: Tips and insight on how to remain an independent not-for-profit home health and hospice agency while facing reimbursement that is not keeping pace with cost of living/business expenses . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always focus on the mission. Create a culture where respecting and caring for others is priority. Involve all employees in the strategic plan and ensure they know their value. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding bikes with friends in the neighborhood, spending time at the community pool, and watching cartoons
Abcor Home Health
Arlington Heights, IL
abcor.com
The mission of Abcor Home Health is to provide dedicated exceptional, cost effective, familyfocused in-home health care services to qualifying clients. Our goal is to meet the client’s needs in the nurturing environment of their own home. We endeavor to minimize the impact of the client’s condition on the family while respecting the role of family in the care of the client. Abcor aims to help disabled individuals and elderly persons remain in the community by providing high quality home care services and skilled nursing
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Saberbein
gustavo.saberbein@abcor.com
Gustavo
Acacia Home Health & Hospice
Fountain Valley, CA acaciahealth.net
Acacia Health provides skilled home health, hospice, and a unique hospice-style palliative care to southern California. We are in an aggressive growth mode, via organic and M&A initiatives.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 506
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $60MM
States Operating In: CA
Heather Nydam Sibley CFO
heather.nydam@acaciahealth.net
Spouse/Guest: Bret Sibley. • I’d like to share: My experiences in integration from the financial and strategic perspective. • I’d like to learn: Various perspectives, experiences, and tools that effectively create measurable successes . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build culture and structure equally as you grow.
AccordCare
Marietta, GA accordcare.com
AccordCare is a home care and home health provider focused on complex patients, dedicated to our employees, clients, patients, and their families focused on helping all of them live their best possible lives. We will offer services to multiple payer sources and practice at the high end of abilities
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
States Operating In: AL, CT, FL, GA, NY, NC, SC
Dave Jones CEO
djones@accordcare.com
Accra Care
Minnetonka, MN accrahomecare.org
Accra provides services that are primarily self-directed and consist of personal care assistance, waivered services, fiscal management services as well as Medicare and private pay home healthcare. We offer the majority of these services throughout the state of Minnesota.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
States Operating In: MN
John Dahm President & CEO
johndahm@accracare.org
Spouse/Guest: Sandy Mullen.
Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC)
Cary, NC
achc.org
Accreditation leader, ACHC, empowers a culture of excellence. Our unrivaled educational approach guides quality and operational improvements to support your success. Whether you offer home health, home care/private duty, or hospice services, you can count on our expert staff to quickly answer your questions, supply key resources, and deliver solutions that reduce costs
New Initiatives or Future Plans
New ACHC Accreditation Distinctions: Age-Friendly Care emphasizes the 4Ms*: What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility. Home Health Outcomes recognizes providers in the top 25% of the CMS HHVBP Performance Report
Category: Accreditation
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 250
Jose Domingos President & CEO
jdomingos@achc.org
I’d like to share: The market continues to consolidate through M&A. ACHC has expanded our accreditation offerings to cover the entire continuum of care to provide a one stop solution for all your accreditation needs . • I’d like to learn: Strategic partnerships are a win-win for the industry. How can ACHC partner with you to improve your operations and decrease your expenses while improving patient care and employee satisfaction? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Completely understand, through education, what regulatory requirements are, how to meet them. ACHC offers many educational webinars for free and also on demand. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Either playing soccer or tennis
Matt Hughes VP Community Care Services
mhughes@achc.org
I’d like to share: Providers choose ACHC accreditation because we do things right and lead with education to ensure that each provider willing to put in the effort will come out a better organization in the end . • I’d like to learn: What drives your decision on whether to be accredited and what accreditation organization to use? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Utilize your resources! Take advantage of solution partners like ACHC to help you achieve the goals you have set out within your organization . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the beach with family and cooking dinner on the beach as the sun goes down by a fire
Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC)
Cary, NC achc.org
Susan Mills Senior Program Director
smills@achc.org
I’d like to share: I would like attendees to know our collaborative, educational survey approach will help your organization highlight strengths, reaffirm your commitment to compliance, and drive continuous improvement . • I’d like to learn: Your perspectives on the evolving needs and challenges within the industry in order to help ACHC tailor its survey process and resources to better address their needs . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Partner with a respected accrediting organization, such as ACHC, to boost your agency’s credibility and gain access to essential resources and support . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Spending summer days at the beach with cousins and family — building sandcastles, splashing in the waves, and enjoying ice cream under the sun!
Addus HomeCare
Downers Grove, IL addus.com
Addus HomeCare is a provider of home care services that primarily include personal care services that assist with activities of daily living, as well as hospice and home health services. Addus HomeCare’s consumers are primarily persons who, without these services, are at risk of hospitalization or institutionalization, such as the elderly, chronically ill and disabled
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 57,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $1.5B
States Operating In: AL, AZ, AR, CA, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, MI, MO, NM, NC, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA
Darby Anderson
EVP & Chief Government Relations Officer
danderson@addus.com
I’d like to share: Medicaid Access Rule advocacy efforts . • I’d like to learn: Advocacy effort to fix PDGM reimbursement. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn the benefits and funding sources. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Golfing
Cliff Blessing
EVP & Chief Development Officer
cblessing@addus.com
I’d like to share: Insights gained from home care acquisition experience . • I’d like to learn: About market trends impacting homecare M&A. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Ask thoughtful questions for guidance from an experienced mentor
Adtalem Global Education
Chicago, IL
adtalem.com
At Adtalem Global Education, we seek to empower students and members to achieve their goals, find success and make inspiring contributions to our global community. Adtalem is a leading healthcare educator that partners with organizations to proactively address future workforce needs and empowers career development
Hajo Oltmanns
VP Strategic Workforce Solutions & Partnerships
hajo.oltmanns@adtalem.com
I’d like to share: How we can successfully address the nursing crisis through innovation and collaboration across provider organizations and academic institutions to broaden the pool of potential nurses. • I’d like to learn: How the needs around attracting, developing, and retaining clinical talent are evolving for Home Care 100 provider organizations. What innovations have been successful in addressing these needs. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Look at things with fresh eyes. Challenge assumptions. Ask questions. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: During family vacation at a beach in Denmark (I grew up in Europe).
AdventHealth
Maitland, FL
adventhealth.com
AdventHealth Home Health and Hospice is currently operating in 8 states with continued expansion plans as we partner with our health system to bring world class home health and hospice services everywhere AdventHealth is operating today. We are part of a health system that has 55+ hospitals, operating in nine states, with annual revenues exceeding $18B
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 4,400
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $160MM
States Operating In: CO, FL, GA, IL, KS, KY, MO, NC
Bryan Wright
COO, Home Health & Hospice
bryan.wright@adventhealth.com
I’d like to share: AdventHealth has home health and hospice locations in eight states. • I’d like to learn: How you are approaching changes in the industry; reimbursement, consolidation/payvider formations, staffing dynamics and cost increases. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on quality outcomes and consumer experience while balancing industry aligned cost per visit . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Camping.
Mark Wheeler
CFO, Home Health and Hospice
mark.wheeler@adventhealth.com
I’d like to share: Always happy to share industry knowledge and what things AdventHealth is doing as we prepare for 2025. • I’d like to learn: How others are handling the continued payment cuts in home health reimbursement . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is a challenging field but one of the most rewarding professions. Helping and caring for individuals in the home setting is both a privilege and an honor. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Anywhere on a beach. Some of the best family vacations were spent in Hawaii on Maui beaches, swimming, snorkeling, boogie boarding and enjoying the warm sun.
Advocate Health
Oak Brook, IL
advocatehealth.com
Advocate Health’s Continuing Health division provides a well-coordinated, innovative platform of programs and services that help people live well at home. Continuing Health’s programs and services are provided across six states—and includes 12 lines of business
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $750MM
States Operating In: AL, GA, IL, NC, SC, WI
Denise Keefe SVP Continuing Health
denise.keefe@aah.org
Agape Care Group
Spartanburg, SC agapecaregroup.com
Agape Care Group proudly serves hospice patients through its family of brands—Agape Care South Carolina, Georgia Hospice Care, Hospice of the Carolina Foothills in North Carolina, and ACG Hospice in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Virginia. Employees serve with love by providing comfort and support through compassionate care and meaningful experience
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 5,700
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $375MM
States Operating In: AL, GA, KS, LA, MO, NC, OK, SC, VA
Troy Yarborough CEO
troy.yarborough@agapecaregroup.com
Jason
Gerard CFO
jason.gerard@agapecaregroup.com
Alex Ferguson SVP Mergers & Acquisitions
alex.ferguson@agapecaregroup.com
I’d like to share: We will be actively pursuing quality acquisitions in 2025 . • I’d like to learn: How you plan to grow and how you plan to improve quality and patient experience. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: In Maine
Aging With Comfort
Philadelphia, PA
agingwithcomfort.com
Aging With Comfort is a local HHA agency in Philadelphia, PA. When you want your loved one to receive additional support while aging at home, contact us for caregiver or nursing help!
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Sean Gregson CEO
sgregson@agingwithcomfort.com
Agrace Hospice & Palliative Care
Madison, WI agrace.org
Since 1978, Agrace HospiceCare has been a nonprofit, community based hospice dedicated to providing expert physical, emotional and spiritual support to patients and families dealing with life limiting conditions. Agrace HospiceCare is nationally recognized for the comprehensive hospice services we provide in patients’ homes, the Agrace HospiceCare inpatient unit and skilled nursing and assisted living facilities throughout south central Wisconsin
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
States Operating In: WI
Lynne Sexten President & CEO
lynne.sexten@agrace.org
AHHC of NC & SC
Raleigh, NC ahhcnc.org
Our Association for Home and Hospice Care of NC is one of the oldest, largest and most diverse state home care, home health, and hospice and palliative care assocs.in the US. We have over 750 member agencies and businesses, with 98% membership in home health and 98% in hospice. Our NC and SC Boards are most diverse in auspice and size and we manage the SC Home Care and Hospice Association
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We continue our strong member advocacy and regulatory support. Our Foundation is now expanded to serve both Carolinas and we are seeking grants to address in home aide and CNA worker shortages
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 9
@NCHomeCareTim
Tim Rogers President & CEO
tim@ahhcnc.org
I’d like to share: In 2023 AHHC was awarded the ASAE SUMMIT Award for our grant work in NC on work force shortages. 2024-most proud of raising $110,000 for Hurricane Relief for affected agencies and staff in the Carolina’s! • I’d like to learn: With 33 years in our industry, I’m always open to learn new and better ways to support/serve our agency members in the Carolinas. Home Care 100 is an excellent venue for cutting edge technology and education. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Continue the empathy and compassion you have for caregiving and knowing the best place to receive care can be at HOME! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my Banana Bike to the pool and meeting my friends; swimming, sunning, playing tennis or just goofing off on a hot North Carolina day
AION Biosystems
Lowell, MA
aionbiosystems.com
We harness our wearable technology and software platform to identify infection early—before it becomes life-threatening. Through our TempShield, we can be the difference between an antibiotic and an ICU visit. By tracking body temperature continuously for 90 days, our device provides an extra set of eyes on patients and relieves workflow pressures
Who We Serve: Home Health, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care, Long-Term Care # Employees: 25
Samara Barend CEO
sam@aionbiosystems.com
I’d like to share: Being a life-long Buffalo Bills fan and the youngest woman to run for Congress, I’ve learned to bounce back from defeat. I like to call it resilience, some call it masochism! • I’d like to learn: The greatest challenges attendees encounter as they work to ensure the health and wellbeing of their residents . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Embrace technology that simplifies care delivery and can transform how caregivers support their patients. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Going swimming with friends
AlayaCare
Montreal, QC alayacare.com
AlayaCare is the modern end-to-end platform empowering enterprise providers across locations and service lines, from personal care and skilled nursing to pediatrics and home infusion. Our AIenabled platform truly scales, powering millions of visits with a best-in-class caregiver experience and a suite of extensibility and automation tools to unlock operational efficiency.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
AlayaCare is the future-proof platform harnessing the power of AI to unlock clinical insights and drive operational efficiencies. We prioritize extensibility, security, and innovation to deliver scalable solutions as a long-term technology partner
Category: Enterprise Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 750
@AlayaCare
Adrian Schauer CEO
adrian.schauer@alayacare.com
I’d like to share: The awesomeness of Layla: AlayaCare’s AI Agent. From clinical decision support to relieving your back office staff of non-value added back and forth communication with clients and staff. • I’d like to learn: How do you see AI impacting your business? What makes a great software partner for you? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always stay closely connected to the front line: compassionate caregivers helping deliver outcomes for vulnerable clients. Then focus on how to make their lives easier. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Weekdays at basketball camp and weekends by the lake at the cottage; that was the perfect mix of challenge and enjoyment for me.
Geoff Darling Chief Revenue Officer
geoff.darling@alayacare.com
I’d like to share: I am thrilled to spend time with industry leaders exploring how technology will solve the aging crisis and how to best represent home care’s rightful place on the post-acute continuum . • I’d like to learn: What aspects of your business present the greatest opportunities for AI to unlock growth, efficiency, and quality of care? (Asking as we are bringing agentic AI workflows to the EMR space as we speak.) • My advice for someone starting out in home care: You will not find an industry with a greater concentration of mission-driven folks caring deeply about what they do, all while balancing major regulatory and margin constraints. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I grew up in a small town—swimming, fishing, and biking with neighborhood friends—simpler times without screens or distractions!
AlayaCare
Naomi Goldapple SVP Data & Intelligence naomi.goldapple@alayacare.com
I’d like to share: How we can leverage traditional and generative AI to improve home care processes. • I’d like to learn: How organizations are concretely thinking about AI. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Surprisingly complex—once you have seen one home care agency, you have seen one home care agency. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Summer camp on a lake sailing, waterskiing, and canoeing.
Sean Hill VP US Sales
sean.hill@alayacare.com
I’d like to share: Looking to connect to better understand how leading home care technology can improve operations along with patient outcomes . • I’d like to learn: Challenges you’re looking to address with technology in 2025 . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Get to know your clients and stay focused on their challenges that you can help solve. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Going to the cottage with my family and playing baseball with my friends.
Alivia Care
Jacksonville, FL aliviacare.com
Alivia Care provides care at home to patients and families living with advanced or end stage illnesses or geriatric fragility with the goal of improving their care experience.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 1,380
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $140MM
States Operating In: FL, GA
Susan Ponder-Stansel President & CEO
ceo@aliviacare.com
I’d like to share: My belief that improving the access, quality, and capacity for providers to deliver care in the home is the most important work we can do as healthcare professionals. • I’d like to learn: Insights into how to innovate and improve care delivery for high needs patients and their caregivers. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Remember you are in the transportation business, not the horse and buggy business. Stay flexible with methods and means to accomplish your end goal . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my bike to the beach to hang out with my friends
All Care Provider
Glendale, CA allcareprovider.com
All Care Provider services include pediatric nursing, home health, palliative and hospice care. Our organization’s greatest strengths stem from our agility–navigating managed care programs and plans in a highly dense and diverse population area, and the ability to successfully collaborate with health systems for effective and efficient partnerships
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 3,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $38MM
States Operating In: CA
Andrew Pagsisihan COO
andrew.pagsisihan@allcareprovider.com
I’d like to share: I’m passionate about home health, palliative and hospice and look forward in exchanging and collaborating ideas and knowledge for the industry movers and shakers. • I’d like to learn: New home care innovations and technologies that help accelerate care information to care at home. Implementing different types of AI (Augmented Intelligence) and user acceptance . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home Care 100 is a good start, but ask lots of question as well as engage with individuals with national and state associations. Advocacy is another channel to drive a difference. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Coming from a religious school, volunteer hours was required. So strategically working and learning for engineers at JPL, Cal-Tech, Cal-Trans, and LA DWP
Alleviate Care
San Diego, CA
Our company began in June 2022 with the acquisition of three hospice programs in southern California. Our growth strategy is two-fold: organic and acquisitive with expansion outside of California. Our strongest feature is the breadth and diversity of our founding team’s backgrounds and experiences and ability to attract top talent
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 225
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $18MM
States Operating In: CA
Jan Jones CEO
jan.jones@alleviate.care
I’d like to share: How much I appreciate the opportunity to network with attendees at Home Care 100 and how much I learn from casual conversations as well as the programs presented. • I’d like to learn: What ways you are using AI to measure quality and ease staff documentation burden. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always remember the true reason for being – the patient and family. Your North Star. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Horseback riding – going to the barn and spending the day with all the other kids mucking stalls, grooming horses, washing tack, and riding the trails.
Alliant Insurance Services, Inc.
Irvine, CA
alliant.com
We consistently challenge the status quo by providing unmatched results in enhanced asset protection/insurance coverage and reduced cost of risk. We most optimally protect our clients’ assets using our proprietary deep dive coverage audit and vulnerability matrix. We stress test insurance policies to isolate key areas of vulnerability to prevent adverse claim outcomes.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We have added significant expertise in our cyber liability, directors and officers liability, transactional risk (reps and warranties coverage, tax liability coverage, etc.), and workers compensation with the addition of several top specialists.
Category: Insurance
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 13,000
Matt Cohn SVP
mcohn@alliant.com
I’d like to share: It’s all about preventing the preventable as the devil is in the details when negotiating cyber liability, directors and officers liability, professional liability, and large deductible work comp. • I’d like to learn: What specifically your risk and insurance advisors have taught you about how best to reduce your total cost of risk and most optimally protect your assets. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Surround yourself with the best people/team. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Golfing
Always Best Care
Roseville, CA alwaysbestcare.com
Always Best Care provides non-medical in-home care, assisted living placement and referral services, and skilled home healthcare through a nationwide network of over 250 franchised territories in 30 states. Originally founded in 1996, Always Best Care began franchising in 2007
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 7,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $275MM
States Operating In: AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, NJ, NM, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI
Jake Brown President & CEO
jbrown@abc-seniors.com
I’d like to share: What we’ve seen with AI applications. • I’d like to learn: Learn more about the GUIDE Program and CalAIM Program and how others are approaching this opportunity. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Make sure you surround yourself with all the available vendors, legal counsel, and other consulting organizations that can provide you with excellent platforms and advice
Amazing Care Home Health - Skilled Services
Aurora, CO amazingcare.com
Amazing Care is an industry leader in providing the highest quality of care to both the adult and pediatric clients we serve. We believe the key to attaining the highest level of care is through employee satisfaction. Here at Amazing Care, we let compassion and quality of service lead the way.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
States Operating In: CO, TX, UT
Arthur Lowry CEO
arlowry@amazingcare.com
Janice Crowley COO
jacrowley@amazingcare.com
Amedisys
Baton Rouge, LA amedisys.com
Amedisys is a leading provider of healthcare in the home with a vision of becoming the premiere solution for patients across the country to age in place. From home health to hospice to personal care, Amedisys team members provide quality, clinically distinctive care to more than 465,000 patients every year
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 130,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $2B
States Operating In: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, IL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MS, NE, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV
Richard Ashworth
President & CEO
richard.ashworth@amedisys.com
Scott
Ginn
COO, EVP, & CFO
scott.ginn@amedisys.com
Jennifer Guckert Griffin Chief Legal Officer
jennifer.griffin@amedisys.com
Baton Rouge, LA amedisys.com
Scott Levy Chief Government Affairs Officer
scott.levy@amedisys.com
Spouse/Guest: Candace.
Nick Muscato Chief Strategy Officer
nick.muscato@amedisys.com
Andwell Health Partners
Lewiston, ME andwell.org
Andwell Health Partners (formerly Androscoggin Home Healthcare & Hospice) is a parent brand for home health, home care, hospice, Maine Center for Palliative Medicine, mobile wound care, audiology, pediatrics, outpatient therapies (pediatric and adult), and behavioral health. We are Maine’s only unaffiliated free-standing home and community based provider, serving Maine for 60 years
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 3,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $70MM
States Operating In: ME
Ken Albert President & CEO
ken.albert@andwell.org
I’d like to share: I always look forward to networking at Home Care 100. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with colleagues, catch up with old friends, and make new ones. We are so fortunate to enjoy such collegiality. • I’d like to learn: Innovative business strategies and MA relationship enhancements . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: This work is very meaningful and impactful on the communities we serve. Make connections on which you can rely for mentorship and friendship . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On (or in) the lake with family and friends.
RJ Gagnon CFO & COO
rj.gagnon@andwell.org
I’d like to share: Andwell Health Partners (formerly Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice) recently went through a rebrand to drive our diversification efforts and recent mergers in the State of Maine. • I’d like to learn: As traditional fee for service reimbursement is clearly shrinking; I would like to enhance our reimbursement strategies to diversify our revenue base . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Live in the data! As a financial, or operational leader we need to understand what the data is telling us to best prepare for future sustainability. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I was always playing baseball or watching the Red Sox! Now I experience the same passion with my boys
Provider
Andwell Health Partners
Lewiston, ME andwell.org
Carol Weir Chief Clinical Officer
carol.weir@androscoggin.org
I’d like to share: The importance of teambuilding and working with their collective knowledge and skill to contribute to access, advances, and growth in the medical, home health and hospice environments and systems. • I’d like to learn: What top three strategies companies are prioritizing for program sustainability. What is one initiative that organizations have developed that has been successful, and how is that success defined? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build strong, trusting, communicative relationships and partnerships, and take care of your own wellbeing in the process. Be introspective in the process. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the farm, riding horses bareback and taking care of the animals.
AnewHealth
Cleveland, OH
anewhealthrx.com
AnewHealth, a leading pharmacy care management company serving 110,000+ people nationwide, partners with home health to help patients more effectively manage their medications—delivering monthly clinical pharmacy care and medication delivery that overcomes access barriers, lowers readmissions, promotes improved OASIS scores, and enables greater independence at home.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We will deliver solutions that further expand access to comprehensive pharmacy care for people with complex medication needs and enable improved outcomes that impact changes to HHVBP in 2025, including OASIS M2020 and preventable hospitalization
Category: Pharmacy
Who We Serve: Home Health, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 1,700
Roman Fry Chief Growth Officer
rfry@anewhealthrx.com
Spouse/Guest: Jodi. • I’d like to share: We actively serve 110,000 home health patients across all 50 states as their complex pharmacy. We are no cost to the home health providers, directly impact OASIS measures, and reduce medication management burden. • I’d like to learn: What pharmacy related challenges are occurring in the current environment and how AnewHealth can create more value . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Each visit and touchpoint has the ability to change someone’s life, especially caregivers. The “little extra” is worth it . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Running and practicing for the football season. This helped me go on to play at Clemson University
Jared Chandler VP jchandler@exactcarepharmacy.com
Spouse/Guest: Kristen. • I’d like to share: ExactCare, a pharmacy by AnewHealth, is a medication management provider helping people with complex medical needs feel more independent managing their medications, which leads to better health. • I’d like to learn: What are your challenges with reducing readmissions, improving OASIS scores, and driving patient adherence? Do you have a medication management program established to connect patients to support? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Utilize a pharmacy partner who can help you achieve your clinical, quality, and financial goals and relieve the burden of medication management for your patient-facing staff . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing sports
Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health
Mckinney, TX
angelsofcare.com
Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health is a nurse-owned and operated home health agency with experienced and knowledgeable staff serving the special needs and medically fragile community. Our company provides an array of home health services to pediatric patients including PDN, skilled nursing, respite care, CNA program, OT/PT/speech therapy, IHSS, PPECs, and more
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 5,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $350MM
States Operating In: AZ, CO, FL, NC, PA, SC, TX
@angelsofcare
Jessica Riggs CEO
jriggs@angelsofcare.com
I’d like to share: I would be happy to discuss the importance of building a team and aligning goals. When everyone is rowing in the same direction, the boat can travel further and with less strain on any one person . • I’d like to learn: I am looking forward to getting to know like-minded colleagues, to hear the challenges they are facing, and how they are overcoming them. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Create a culture that focuses on the client’s needs and determine the best way to address them • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Being outdoors, playing sports with my friends
Brian Jones Chief Development Officer
bjones@angelsofcare.com
I’d like to share: I am looking forward to sharing my experience in healthcare with others in our industry. • I’d like to learn: What issues you are having and what you are doing to overcome them. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: No matter what your function is, always keep the patients as your focus . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing sports with everyone in the neighborhood
Apploi
New York, NY apploi.com
Apploi is transforming how healthcare hires with an all-in-one platform built to attract, hire, and schedule top healthcare talent. Working with over 9,000 healthcare organizations, Apploi empowers leaders to provide superb care in the midst of a candidate shortage with its recruitment, automation, credentialing, onboarding, and shift management capabilities
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Apploi can help you speed up your response time to new applicants with automated communication and workflows. Quick communication with candidates not only helps you reach them before your competitors do but also helps you fill open roles faster
Category: Hiring Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 120
Bryan McCormack
Enterprise Account Executive
bryan.mccormack@apploi.com
I’d like to share: My wife and I had a baby last summer and I love being a dad. • I’d like to learn: What is the most challenging aspect of hiring in home care? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: These are wonderful people that genuinely want to make a difference in lives. Treat them as the gold they are and things will go great. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing summer hockey.
Elie Roz Account Executive
elie.roz@apploi.com
I’d like to share: We are a healthcare-specific workforce management system, helping teams recruit and onboard. We currently work with over 9,000 healthcare organizations today. • I’d like to learn: How you operate your companies from a recruiting and onboarding standpoint. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the golf course. There is nothing better than a nice round of golf
Apricot
Oklahoma City, OK apricothealth.ai
Apricot is transforming the home health industry through innovative AI documentation solutions that enhance nurse satisfaction, reduce employee turnover, increase agency margins, and improve patient outcomes. Apricot is committed to making the home health nursing job the best in all of healthcare. Built by Trent Smith inside of his HHA - by the industry, for the industry
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Apricot drastically reduces the time it takes to complete documentation and has integrations or interfaces with Netsmart’s myUnity, Healthcare Synergy and Link, HCHB, and will support other large EMR systems later this year
Category: Document Management
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice
# Employees: 17
Trent Smith Founder & CEO
ts@apricothealth.ai
Spouse/Guest: Cortney. • I’d like to share: Ex-NFL player and general aviation pilot currently scaling Apricot to tackle MA and staffing challenges. Passionate about AI’s potential in healthcare. Recently merged my agency, Accentra, with Choice. • I’d like to learn: Major challenges faced by home care operators as well as their views on AI integration. Eager to learn about innovative solutions and best practices in the industry. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Understand the Regulations and Compliance Requirements—they are stout and they are serious. Also, focus on sales and marketing just as much as patient outcomes. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: With my friends at the pool or playing sports!
ArchCare
New York, NY archcare.org
ArchCare is an organization that provides post acute care on the continuum in our nursing homes, PACE program, Health Home, LHCSA and CHHA. We cover services in New York state within 11 counties in New York City and the Hudson Valley
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 1,800
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $50MM
States Operating In: NY
Tami Siedler
VP Home & Community-Based Services
tsiedler@archcare.org
I’d like to share: Participating in the Home Care 100 is always enlightening. Our world of home and community-based services has evolved to be a myriad of provider types to meet the needs of anyone at home! • I’d like to learn: I am always looking at different models of care, ways to improve quality and efficiencies that can be used to do more with less! • My advice for someone starting out in home care: If you are new to home care, have an opened mind and listen to lots of people—there are many ways for you to accomplish your vision. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I love to be outside enjoying a light breeze at the pool or the beach, and soaking in the sun.
Arya
New York, NY aryahealth.ai
Arya provides digital agents for healthcare workforce management, streamlining tasks like scheduling, payroll, onboarding, and compliance to enhance operational efficiency and staff engagement for home care operators
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Our newly launched voice AI agent autonomously manages phone-based scheduling and callouts, significantly reducing expenses associated with call center operations and after-hours staffing for home care providers
Category: Workforce Management Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 16
Kunal Sarda CEO kunal@aryaworks.com
I’d like to share: How to be on the leading edge, but not on the bleeding edge, of AI and automation in home care operations. • I’d like to learn: How are executives thinking about using technology to free up time and resources away from mundane things, and towards building meaningful relationships and actions that grow the business? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: “Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.” Approach with patience and empathy, and focus on building trust, and the numbers and growth will follow. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my bike around the neighborhood, collecting flyers from neighbors’ mailboxes (hey, no one likes flyers!), and comparing my haul with friends at the end of the day
Ascension
Dayton, MN
ascension.org
Ascension at Home powered by Compassus for Home Health, Compassus for Hospice, SNF at home through Ascension at Home. Additional wholly owned home health and hospice in various markets including Kansas, Wisconsin, Texas
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
States Operating In: IL, KS, MN, MS, TN, TX, WI
Crissy Tohey
Senior Director, National Sales
crissy.tohey@ascension.org
I’d like to share: Seasoned leader with over 20 sales and leadership within the health and wellness sector, with a primary focus on senior housing . • I’d like to learn: Expansion of services, industry trends. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing outside all day!
Provider Atlantic Visiting Nurse
Morristown, NJ atlantichealth.org/atlanticvisitingnurse
Certified home care, hospice, adult day care, and personal care services as part of Atlantic Health System, that consists of seven hospitals in New Jersey. We have robust Wound, Rehab and remote patient monitoring programs for our complex patients. Our EMR is EPIC
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 1,850
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $75MM
States Operating In: NJ
Mary Pradilla Executive Director
mary.pradilla@atlantichealth.org
I’d like to learn: New technology solutions
AuthoraCare Collective
Greensboro, NC authoracare.org
Our patients are always the author of their life story. During a challenging illness, AuthoraCare Collective helps them author more moments that matter, regardless of the stage of their illness or condition
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 750
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $52MM
States Operating In: NC
Kristen Yntema CEO
kristen.yntema@authoracare.org
I’d like to share: I was fortunate at 15 to be introduced to my career in healthcare starting out as a CNA at my local hometown hospital. I have a deep commitment to serving others at a vulnerable time in their lives . • I’d like to learn: From others who have been innovative in programs that have created new revenue streams • My advice for someone starting out in home care: You are a guest in anyone’s home and have the honor of being invited in. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Roller skating all over my neighborhood
Devin Griffith COO
devin.griffith@authoracare.org
I’d like to share: Having worked in multiple settings of healthcare including hospital administration, my main constant over the years has been hospice and home care, which has always grounded me in my “why.” • I’d like to learn: Innovative approaches to grow service lines, position for value-based care and risk-based arrangements, improve quality, and develop our workforce of the future . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Reach out and learn from other’s lessons and experiences, become a part of the larger home care professional community, and stay grounded in your “why” and those we serve. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I grew up in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey so it was swimming in one of the cedar lakes with friends, paddling on canoes, hiking, and catching fireflies in the evening!
AutomationEdge
Houston, TX automationedge.com
AutomationEdge CareFlo is purpose-built AI for home and post-acute care agencies. Powered by AutomationEdge: Home Health – referral intake, OASIS capture and submission, claims pre and post processing and preauthorization automation using AI; Home Care – curating EVV shifts, perform eligibility checks, caregiver onboarding/offboarding, shift scheduling, caregiver gamification.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Co-innovation with select home care leaders to solve complex industry challenges with AI; Digital magazine for home and post-acute care; AI Podcast series with CXOs (CEO,CFO & CIO); Free knowledge sharing sessions on AI.
Category: AI/Automation Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 550
@AutomationEdge
Siva Juturi Chief Customer Officer
siva.juturi@automationedge.com
Spouse/Guest: Pallavi Vadrevu. • I’d like to share: AI is not Artificial but authentic intelligence! Would love to share AutomationEge (leading AI platform) unique disruptive AI CareFlos for home health for intake, engagement, RCM, and compliance. • I’d like to learn: In this rapidly changing socio-economic and regulatory landscape for home-health/hospice, top three challenges on adoption of AI for home care agencies to improve profitability and topline census growth! • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is one of the most gratifying space to be professionally and personally where you touch human lives in no other way in any other industry. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Hangout with my school mates plucking fruits from farm lands, playing games of cricket and badminton, and hearing my grandma’s stories about family!
Aveanna Healthcare
Atlanta, GA
aveanna.com
Today, Aveanna Healthcare cares for patients and families through our rapidly growing network of more than 300 branch offices, offering a variety of care and services to more than 80,000 children and adults
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 45,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $2B
States Operating In: All 50
Jeff Shaner CEO
jeff.shaner@aveanna.com
I’d like to share: We have great passion for providing care in our communities. It’s an honor to serve our vulnerable patients and their families in the comfort of their homes. • I’d like to learn: How leaders are thinking about the future of “care in the home.” Also, how the use of artificial intelligence can accelerate our efficiencies and lower total cost of care . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Try not to get too “high” during the high times and “low” during the low times. Healthcare and homecare will go up and it will come back down. Learn to be great at both
Avid Health at Home
Arlington Heights, IL avidhealthathome.com
Avid Health delivers exceptional personalized in-home care services by hiring compassionate people who believe in taking care of our clients, fellow employees, and the communities we serve.
Primary Organization Type: Home Health States Operating In: IL, NC
Jen Lentz CEO
jlentz@avidhealthathome.com
Spouse/Guest: Patrick.
AxisCare
Waco, TX axiscare.com
AxisCare is the leading enterprise management software for home care agencies. It’s easy-to-use and customizable, has seamless workflows for multi-site operations, and offers EVV, payroll, and billing integrations. Consecutively voted by users as the easiest to use scheduling software in the industry for four years. Manage and scale with confidence with AxisCare
New Initiatives or Future Plans
AxisCare aims to stay at the forefront of AI advancements and incorporate its potential into our software. We look to leverage AI in future initiatives such as smart scheduling, caregiver retention, secure access to data, advanced reporting, and BI
Category: Enterprise Software
Who We Serve: Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 130 @AxisCareUS
Todd Allen CEO
toddallen@axiscare.com
I’d like to share: Working with thousands of providers, AxisCare has a unique vantage point to see new trends in home care, payer source diversification, and back-office efficiencies. • I’d like to learn: How providers are thinking about Medicare Advantage. Also, what do providers *actually* think about AI? Is it hype or is it a material game-changer? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Start with the end in mind, which in my opinion is providing a range of services, with a diverse set of payer sources (Medicaid, Private Pay, VA, etc). • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Getting friends together to play soccer, football, or baseball
John Atkinson
CTO & COO
johnatkinson@axiscare.com
I’d like to share: Technology and operational practices that help home care provider scale. • I’d like to learn: The most important external systems (CRM, HRIS, etc.) home care providers are looking to integrate with their home care platforms. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Don’t stop learning and improving your processes when you get busy. Try to make one practical process improvement per quarter. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Sleeping late and playing video games with friends
AxisCare
Waco, TX
axiscare.com
Josh Lawson VP Growth
joshlawson@axiscare.com
I’d like to share: We’re quietly leading the way in AI for home care. While we may not make a lot of noise, our commitment to leveraging future tech is already transforming patient care and operational efficiency. • I’d like to learn: I’m eager to listen and to learn secrets from others who’ve seen success in the home care space and where they see the future heading. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Find a supportive group that is a few stages in front of you that you can learn from . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing baseball
Will Martin Director, Enterprise Accounts
willmartin@axiscare.com
I’d like to share: Serving the home care industry for the last ten years has been an incredible adventure. • I’d like to learn: Does your KPI scorecard match the goals your leaders have? How are organizations implementing and managing AI responsibly. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Don’t lose sight of the value home care brings to senior/family lives. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Building a fort or exploring our wooded land during the day. Hide and sneak with neighborhood kids in the late afternoon until Mom called us in for dinner.
Axle Health
Los Angeles, CA axlehealth.com
Axle Health provides scheduling and workforce management software to help home health and hospice providers increase clinician productivity by 19%+. Our platform integrates with any EMR, and includes: proprietary logistics engine; field mobile app for clinicians; analytics suite and operations dashboard; and SMS-based patient engagement and booking solution
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We’re building an AI scheduler to enable patients to schedule appointments without intervention from the office or clinician. Also fleshing out our partnership ecosystem to give our customers access to best-in-class solutions across the broader space
Category: Workforce Management Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Care
# Employees: 14
Adam Stansell CEO adam@axlehealth.com
I’d like to share: Operational best practices and technology solutions to improve efficiency for home health providers, while still maintaining high levels of clinician satisfaction and patient quality of care. • I’d like to learn: Non-operations related pain points with current tech solutions. We’re building our partner ecosystem, and identifying other tech pain points will allow us to prioritize the most important solutions . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Run a tight ship from day one. We’re all here to care for patients, but there’s a lot of ways to lose money in home health. You can’t survive without efficient operations. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Baseball game (back when the Mariners were good...)
Axxess
Dallas, TX
axxess.com
Axxess is the leading global technology platform for care at home with a robust ecosystem that empowers healthcare organizations and professionals to deliver the highest quality care. Over 9,000 organizations trust the Axxess network to care for over 5 million patients worldwide. The software ecosystem is independently certified as the most secure and industry-compliant
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Axxess delivers Axxess Intelligence, an ecosystem of AI-driven features that help organizations streamline their operations, ensure compliance and grow their business. Our platform empowers care at home organizations to deliver meaningful outcomes
Category: Enterprise Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 1,000
@Axxess
John Olajide Founder & CEO
nolajide@axxess.com
I’d like to share: The important role culture plays in an organization’s success . • I’d like to learn: How providers are managing staffing and workforce development strategies and how they see technology’s role in addressing these issues . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Cultivate patience. There are no shortcuts. Success takes time and time requires all of us to appreciate the value of patience, even as we operate with excellence every day. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing soccer with friends and reading anything that interested me. I’ve always been curious and eager to learn
Tim Ingram
EVP Interoperability
tingram@axxess.com
I’d like to share: Our vision drives everything we do. Our vision is to be the most successful global healthcare technology provider and most admired for its people, partnerships, and solutions. • I’d like to learn: How has AI changed your operations on a daily basis? What are your concerns around AI? Is staffing still your biggest challenge? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: There may be no great missional work in healthcare. There may also be no more difficult work to engage in because of regulatory and staffing challenges and uncertainties . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Front yard football. My dream was to grow up and be Bob Hayes
Axxess
Dallas, TX axxess.com
Adrian Killebrew SVP Enterprise Sales
akillebrew@axxess.com
I’d like to share: Axxess’ unique partnerships boost client confidence in our solutions’ future and effectiveness. We’re proud of our platform’s ecosystem of integrated solutions. • I’d like to learn: How organizations are leveraging innovative technology platforms like Axxess to transform home care delivery. Understanding different approaches and insights will be invaluable . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Investment in people is vital. Home care thrives on a people-centric approach, so building a robust organizational culture is key to sustained success and growth . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, my favorite summer days were spent working alongside my grandfathers in our family businesses .
Chris Taylor SVP Channel Partnerships
ctaylor@axxess.com
I’d like to share: The commitment and excitement that Axxess has for partnering with providers and vendors to find new ways to elevate the care in home industry • I’d like to learn: The biggest hurdles and issues that are keeping you up at night and holding you back from reaching your desired goals. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be patient and empathetic. Build strong relationships with your patients/clients/team, listen to their needs, and always prioritize their comfort and safety. Trust is key!
• My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing at the beach with my family and friends, enjoying ice cream, and roasting marshmallows under the stars. Pure joy!
Shradha Aiyer VP Solution Delivery
saiyer@axxess.com
I’d like to share: How Axxess solves for our industry’s challenges using technology. I’ll be engaging with leaders about Axxess Intelligence (AI), our AI toolkit, helping our clients grow their revenue. • I’d like to learn: What are the unique areas of opportunities you are exploring, and how technology can help accelerate your goals. Also, how your organization is thinking about leveraging artificial intelligence . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Our industry is mission-driven; if you lead with your heart and the “why,” you will have more success. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Hosting high tea with my grandmother; it was always filled with lively conversations that led to learning about various topics
Kelly Bishop VP Enterprise Sales
kbishop@axxess.com
I’d like to share: I’m optimistic about the future of home-based care and eager to see collaboration across industry segments to drive technological advancement. We need to focus on the outcome not the obstacle . • I’d like to learn: What critical investments will you be making over the next one to two years to grow and scale your organization? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Stay current on industry topics, diversify your lines of business, embrace change, and invest in technology that will grow as you grow. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: A day at the beach in Wildwood, NJ jumping in waves with my cousins followed by water slides, the boardwalk, and thrilling rollercoasters .
Bailey & Company
Brentwood, TN bnco.com
Bailey & Company, a Nashville-based merchant bank, focuses on healthcare and technology. We offer M&A advisory and principal investing solutions to firms with scalable platforms addressing today’s healthcare challenges. Our senior bankers have closed over 400 transactions worth $25B, providing strategic insights and independent advisory services to industry leaders
New Initiatives or Future Plans
The home health and post-acute care ecosystem is a key focus for our advisory team. We advise providers of home nursing, hospice, non-medical home care, infusion, and RT-HME, as well as the tech/outsourced service providers supporting them
Category: Finance – Investment Bank
# Employees: 35
James Metcalf Managing Director
jmetcalf@bnco.com
I’d like to share: Bailey & Company is one of the largest and most active independent M&A and capital advisory firms exclusively focused on healthcare • I’d like to learn: Our investment bankers have completed over 30 M&A and financing transactions in home health and post-acute. I’m eager to strengthen existing relationships and build new ones. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Strategic investments in people, technology, and automation deliver significant ROI, driving scale, revenue, and profitability. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Working and playing at the golf course.
BAYADA Home Health Care
Pennsauken, NJ bayada.com
BAYADA Home Health Care provides home-based services in seven different specialty areas in the United States and seven countries. Founded in 1975 by Mark Baiada, our organization is guided by The BAYADA Way: our statement of mission, vision, values, and beliefs
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 35,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $2.2B
States Operating In: AZ, CO, DE, FL, GA, HI, IN, MD, MA, MN, MO, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, SC, VA, VT @bayadahhc
David
Baiada CEO
dbaiada@bayada.com
I’d like to share & learn: Lessons learned in building and protecting a culture . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Think big, work hard, show love
Heather Helle President & COO
hhelle@bayada.com
Justin
Searle President, Home Health
jsearle@bayada.com
I’d like to share: I am new to home health and deeply entrenched in what I call “inquiry mode” so have more to learn than share. However, I can share operating models and insights from other healthcare service organizations . • I’d like to learn: I would love to meet industry thought leaders, explore tech/AI solutions, and learn perspectives regarding how the inbound executive administration is forecasted to impact our industry. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Ask lots of questions, take notes, seek to understand value levers. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding bikes, swimming, and playing in the desert!
BAYADA Home Health Care
Pennsauken, NJ bayada.com
Mike Johnson
Chief Researcher, Home Care Innovation
mjohnson@bayada.com
Spouse/Guest: Beth. • I’d like to share: Our thoughts about creating greater capacity to address questions that are key to the long term success/growth of the industry. • I’d like to learn: How leaders in home health and hospice are thinking about research. Creating the capacity to participate/lead explorations AND building awareness of current studies that support care in the home . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Face each day with curiosity, kindness, and grit! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Lying in an inner tube on a nearby pond—oblivious to the day/time/month
Dave Totaro Chief Government Affairs Officer
dtotaro@bayada.com
I’d like to share: The vision behind the new C(4) social welfare organization created by BAYADA Home Health Care, Hearts for Home Care. • I’d like to learn: How you are responding to access to care issues in light of the workforce challenges that don’t appear to be receiving support, either now or in the immediate future, from Congress. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Resist the urge to remain insular. Get out into the industry and meet leaders from all sizes of companies and geographies. And listen more than talk. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing stick ball with my friends.
Susan Chapman Moss
SVP & Managing Director, Payer & Provider Contracting & Strategy
smoss1@bayada.com
I’d like to share: My experience expanding value-based payment models in home care setting. • I’d like to learn: How to further amplify the collective voice of home care providers with legislators and regulators. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn the business (participate in home visits, spend time in high-performing offices, ask questions). • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Racing with my hometown sailing club (perfect combination of competition, teamwork and adventure).
Bayshore HealthCare
Missisissauga, ON bayshore.ca
Bayshore HealthCare is a Canadian-owned company and one of the country’s leading home and community healthcare service providers. The company aims to enhance the quality of life, well-being, dignity, and independence of Canadians of all ages. With locations across the country, including 80+ home care offices, 11 pharmacies, and 100+ community care buildings
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 17,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $2.3B
States Operating In: Canada
Stuart Cottrelle Founder & Board Chair
scottrelle@bayshore.ca
I’d like to share: The digital experience. • I’d like to learn: How to expand the home care marketplace and how to grow the number of people.
BetterRX
Salt Lake City, UT betterrx.com
Hospice pharmacy was broken—so we fixed it. BetterRX delivers the fastest, most seamless hospice pharmacy experience with real-time technology that saves nurses five to seven hours a week. With unmatched national and local medication inventory access, true cost transparency, and zero markups, we’ve reimagined the hospice pharmacy model to put providers and patients first
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Coming soon: See medication costs instantly, predictive analytics, and control per-patient daily expenses. Our initiatives showcase our commitment to enhancing hospice pharmacy services, improving both care quality and cost-effectiveness
Category: Pharmacy
Who We Serve: Hospice
# Employees: 50
@BetterRXHQ
Ben Clarke CEO
bclarke@betterrx.com
I’d like to share: BetterRX technology is changing hospice like Amazon changed retail. • I’d like to learn: If you could wave your magic wand and change something about your hospice pharmacy provider, what would it be? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Start with the patient and work backward. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing soccer, fishing, and swimming.
Rob Furness VP Sales
rfurness@betterrx.com
I’d like to share: You can get better care at a lower cost. • I’d like to learn: What good pharmacy coverage looks like to you. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Lead with your why. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing sand volleyball
Sara Nigro VP Partnerships
saran@betterrx.com
Spouse/Guest: Ross. • I’d like to share: We’re delivering on the promises that other hospice pharmacy solutions fail to keep. • I’d like to learn: Which technologies, tools, and services hospices are leveraging, and their impact on efficiency and patient care • My advice for someone starting out in home care: If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Summer camp as a Florida kid meant days at the beach, adventures at water parks, and, of course, plenty of sunburns!
BEYOND HC LLC
New Smyrna Beach, FL beyondhcllc.com
BEYOND brings together its experience and knowledge with an IS | IT methodology to streamline any certification process. While formalizing a program that overcomes the intricacies and challenges of a complex process, we will walk with you and provide the assistance required by you and your team. Our business model is a proven approach that results in 100% success
New Initiatives or Future Plans
BEYOND’s focus is to create programs specialized to each of our clients, IS | IT goals. Working with all size companies, our purpose is to help your company innovate, transform, and obtain success in achieving your information security objectives
Category: Information Security | HITRUST Compliance
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 10
Cathlynn Nigh Founder & CEO
cnigh@beyondhcllc.com
Spouse/Guest: Raymond Biondo. • I’d like to share: BEYOND values our client’s achieving their objectives. We hold in high regard being a resource with an individualized touch, strong loyalty, and top of mind recognition within information security. • I’d like to learn: The challenges the company is facing within their information security environment, and specifics on how BEYOND can help them overcome/solve these problems. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is a blessing. Thank you for contributing. It allows for individuals to maintain independence, and success in recovery, and the opportunity to embrace their life, which soothes the soul . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Sitting outside in our backyard under the maple tree talking with my folks about anything that came to mind and enjoying a tall glass of homemade Nigh punch. Makes me smile .
Bien Chez Soi & Quebec Homecare Association
Candiac, QC bienchezsoi.ca
Bien Chez Soi is the largest home care organization in the province of Quebec, Canada. We have 52 franchisees in a public and private funder mode
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $30MM
States Operating In: Canada
Alison Green Founder & CEO
agreen@bienchezsoi.ca
The Braff Group
Pittsburgh, PA thebraffgroup.com
The Braff Group is a leading M&A advisory firm specializing exclusively in healthcare services, including home health, home care and hospice. Founded in 1998, and providing sell-side only representation, Braff has completed over 375 transactions, 150 of those in the home health and hospice sectors. Braff has repeatedly been ranked among the top five healthcare M&A firms
New Initiatives or Future Plans
With over 25 years of experience, The Braff Group leverages its financial expertise and the deep knowledge of our managing directors in the home care sector to deliver the highest level of service to achieve the best possible results for our clients
Category: Finance M&A
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 23
Mark Kulik
Senior
Managing Director
mkulik@thebraffgroup.com
Spouse/Guest: Lu. • I’d like to share: I’ve been a part of the home care/home health/hospice business for almost 40 years. I still enjoy every day working alongside the dedicated, professional, and compassionate members of our industry! • I’d like to learn: What the highest performing agencies do differently? What specifically makes them a 5-star provider? Upper percentile KPIs? Strongest financials? Longest tenured team? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: First, watch, listen, and learn. Be a sponge! Second, pursue working for a company with a strong culture. Third, seek out a respected mentor.
Kris Novak
Managing Director, Home Health – Skilled, Home Care & Hospice
knovak@thebraffgroup.com
I’d like to share: The market fundamentals that will create a robust M&A environment in 2025. • I’d like to learn: How buyers are viewing Medicare’s valuebased incentive program in their due diligence. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Stay flexible and innovative. Change is always present. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: 36 holes at the local municipal golf course with a Dr Pepper and air conditioning during the Price is Right
Brentwood Capital Partners
Allgood Director
jallgood@brentwoodcapital.com
BrightStar Care
Bannockburn, IL brightstarcare.com
BrightStar Care was founded over 20 years ago on the belief that the best care always goes the extra mile. From personal care, therapy, care communities, medical staffing, and more, we’re always there for those who need us, showing that next-level care is the most important part of who we are. We call it A Higher Standard®
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 27,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $847MM
States Operating In: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI
Shelly Sun Berkowitz Founder & Executive Chairwoman shelly@brightstarcare.com
I’d like to share: The power of data and dashboards to improve performance and consistency via transparency and linkage to outcomes and interrelated metrics
• I’d like to learn: How is AI being used to improve customer or caregiver experiences and reduce back office administration? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on quality differentiation and being the employer of choice. If you have great caregivers that are engaged, you will find the clients and referral sources to grow revenue. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Fishing with my grandfather
Dean
Ulizio Chief Strategy Officer
dulizio@brightstarcare.com
Spouse/Guest: Rachael. • I’d like to share: How in-home virtual care technology is enabling better care for seniors aging in place. • I’d like to learn: What innovations they are implementing to improve the customer experience . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Spend time in the field with the clients, caregivers, nurses, and office teams. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Outside in the woods avoiding chores
BrightStar Care
Bannockburn, IL brightstarcare.com
Lori Cabbage SVP Business Development, National Accounts
lori.cabbage@brightstarcare.com
I’d like to share: I have been in this industry for more than 34 years now and yet every year I learn something new. This industry is forever evolving, and it is exciting see how much is moving into the home. • I’d like to learn: Has the industry seen a reduction in the recruiting crunch post Covid. I would also like to understand how our peers are dealing with post covid pricing and pay scales. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Never say never! Always be open to new opportunities and ways to approach the industry • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: When I was a kid growing up we had a pool in our backyard. The neighbor kids and I would swim away the day, have Kool-Aid and bologna sandwiches .
Bristol Hospice
Salt Lake City, UT bristolhospice.com
Bristol Hospice is graciously committed to our mission that all patients and families entrusted to our care will be treated with the highest level of compassion, respect, and quality of care.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 7,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $550MM
States Operating In: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, IL, LA, ME, MA, MS, MO, NV, OK, OR, PA, SC, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI
Alex Mauricio President & CEO
alex.mauricio@bristolhospice.com
I’d like to share: Bristol is in full growth mode and we couldn’t be more thrilled about the future. If you would like to join our rapidly growing footprint, let’s find time to connect. • I’d like to learn: How we can better leverage each others’ platform to continually grow visibility and access to healthcare options for any and all in need. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be an advocate for your people and the community always.
Melissa Broadway Chief Clinical Officer
melissa.broadway@bristolhospice.com
Angela Collins Division President, Hospice
angela.collins@bristolhospice.com
I’d like to share: I am driven to continue to move our industry forward. Bristol Hospice is a leader in hospice and palliative care, and I look forward to collaborating with my Home Care 100 peers
Bristol Hospice
Salt Lake City, UT bristolhospice.com
Brett Jackson Division President
brett.jackson@bristolhospice.com
I’d like to share: The vast opportunities within the hospice arena, both for patients and healthcare workers everywhere. • I’d like to learn: Creative technological solutions to common problems in the healthcare industry. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Ask questions to those who have been in the arena, and listen. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Doing anything outdoors
Jake Biddle President, Sales
jake.biddle@bristolhospice.com
I’d like to share: The success that Bristol Hospice has realized in 2024 and further create partnerships to continue in 2025. • I’d like to learn: Best-practices utilizing technology/social media to increase hospice utilization and access to care . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be a continuous learner and be willing to adapt, but never lose focus on the patient. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Outdoors playing with friends all day in any sporting activity.
Butte Home Health - Skilled and Hospice
Chico, CA
buttehomehealth.com
Butte Home Health provices home health, home care, hospice, and palliative care services across northern California.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 1,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $48MM
States Operating In: CA @buttehh
Robert Love CEO rlove@buttehh.org
I’d like to share: Our industry has a window of opportunity to become a destination for nurses across the country as they assess their current jobs, work/ life balance, and why they got into nursing in the first place . • I’d like to learn: More models for palliative care, models for retention, models for working with Medicare Advantage plans. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Never forget the “why” of the reason you got into the field. Remember it’s 100% a people business- it’s all about your team and your patients
California Hospice and Palliative Care Association
Stockton, CA calhospice.org
CHAPCA serves the community through advocacy, information, and community education. CHAPCA works to improve access to high-quality hospice and palliative care services. CHAPCA serves provider members through education, works with state regulators and advocacy
Who We Serve: Hospice, Palliative Care
Rebecca Burnett CEO
rburnett@hospicesj.org
I’d like to share: My passion for dignity at end-of-life. • I’d like to learn: How organizational leaders feel the hospice Medicare benefit should be changed. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Welcome to home care; it is very rewarding. I would say, know the conditions of participation and payment well . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing outside with my neighborhood friends
Capital One – TripleTree
McLean, VA capitalone.com
Success in the healthcare industry requires the insight, experience, and relationships that fuel innovation and growth. Capital One Healthcare and TripleTree are focused on advancing the healthcare industry, from a leading provider of customized debt and treasury management solutions to M&A advisory services from a healthcare investment bank
Category: Finance – Commerical & Investment Bank
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 250
Jonathan Hill Managing Director
jhill@triple-tree.com
David Oberdorf Managing Director
david.oberdorf@capitalone.com
I’d like to share: Capital One has been a consistent lender to the home care (skilled, PCS, PDN) and hospice industries for a number of years with a sizeable portfolio with many of the top operators in the sector. • I’d like to learn: How we can help them succeed, whether that be via financing options, treasury management, corporate card, M&A, helping build C-suite, sharing insights/trends, etc., and how we can help them achieve success. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Providing care and support for those that need it is a rewarding way to earn a living. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the basketball courts at summer camp
Wes Smith Managing Director
wesley.smith2@capitalone.com
I’d like to share: I am really excited to see old friends, make new connections and find ways to support everyone’s success. • I’d like to learn: How Capital One can contribute to the success of your business . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: The most experienced, thoughtful and creative executives in the industry are at Home Care 100. Ask questions and be intellectually flexible—there is so much to learn here. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Fishing. And its still my favorite way to spend a day in any season
care.coach
Lawrence, KS care.coach.com
care.coach is a trailblazing company in virtual caregiving, seamlessly integrating AI with real human support to deliver 24/7 in-home care. Our services encompass personalized companionship, health coaching, reminders, and video visit communication, all aimed at enhancing in-home safety and improving the quality of life for our clients
Who We Serve: Home Care/Personal Care, Home Health
Kendra Seavey President & CEO
kendra@care.coach
I’d like to share: Insights on how a new virtual caregiving model, combining AI and human support, is revolutionizing 24/7 in-home care. • I’d like to learn: How attendees are leveraging technology to supplement and enhance care in the home. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Integrate technology into your offerings—it’s the way of the future and can greatly enhance care quality and efficiency. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Visiting my grandparents’ dairy farm. The fresh air, the animals, and the simple joys of farm life made those days unforgettable.
Provider Care Advantage
Richmond, VA careadvantageinc.com
For more than 40 years, Care Advantage has been serving clients and patients across the MidAtlantic with exceptional levels of care and support, allowing people to remain safe, healthy, and happy in their home environment
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 6,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $240MM
States Operating In: DE, DC, MD, NC, VA @Care_Advantage
Tim Hanold CEO
thanold@careadvantageinc.com
I’d like to share: I am passionate about our purpose driven work and look forward to sharing what we learned in 2024 and apply those insights to a promising 2025 • I’d like to learn: How companies are approaching the ever-changing bill vs. wage dynamic, for all payer sources in home care (personal care) . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Bring a growth mindset and spirit of adaptability each day to your business. The industry moves faster than outsiders would think. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Long bike rides in the country—endless back country roads
Care Dimensions
Danvers, MA caredimensions.org
Care Dimensions is Massachusetts’s largest not-for-profit hospice and palliative care organization. In addition, Care Dimensions has been providing at-home primary care since 2019. Care Dimensions has two stand-alone inpatient units for both GIP and routine hospice patients. We are also participating as an established program in the GUIDE model
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 1,700
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $80MM
States Operating In: MA
Stephanie Patel, MD CEO
spatel@caredimensions.org
I’d like to share: We are all lucky to be working in the post-acute space and this is a very exciting time for all of us. I always feel so energized after these conferences. • I’d like to learn: Ways to better represent and convey our value to payors and potential partners, opportunities for joint ventures and partnerships . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: It takes a village, but it is the most rewarding work. Learn from your colleagues and build a network of like-minded individuals . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Walking to the ice cream store for a 50-cent ice cream cone and then going to the penny candy store for more sugar with my sisters and friends.
Johanna Lent Chief People Officer
jlent@caredimensions.org
I’d like to share: I am passionate about doing meaningful work that creates positive impact. I have deep gratitude for the connections and collaborations that shape every endeavor, I strive to bring purpose and authenticity to all I do . • I’d like to learn: What is the most meaningful and/or impactful thing you’ve done at your organization? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Approach work with empathy, patience and willingness to learn. Building trust and strong communication is key. Listen and let connections inspire the meaningful work you do . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: With family at a week-long vacation on the Finger Lakes, jumping off the dock, rowing a boat, skipping rocks and playing card games
Care Hospice
Charlottesville, VA carehospice.com
Care Hospice is a leading hospice provider focused on integrating the passion of local/regional organizations with the efficiency, controls, and compliance of a large national organization. Care provides exceptional hospice care via locally-branded hospices in over 130 locations across 20 states.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 6,700
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $450MM
States Operating In: AL, AZ, AR, CA, FL, GA, IL, MA, NH, NJ, NM, NC, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA
Brad Hunter President & CEO
bradhunter@carehospice.com
grantbrown@carehospice.com
Care Options for Kids
Dallas, TX careoptionsforkids.com
Care Options for Kids began with a clear mission: to enhance the lives of children and their families through compassionate care. Since our inception in 1999, we have been trailblazers in home pediatric therapy. Today, we have expanded our reach, unifying top pediatric care companies around the country to bring therapeutic services to children in their homes, communities, and schools
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Mark Bush CEO
mark.bush@careoptionsforkids.com
The Care Team
Farmington Hills, MI
tctcares.com
The Care Team is a leading hospice, home health, and palliative care provider serving patients in Michigan, Indiana, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice States Operating In: IN, MI, PA, TX
Dan Shoemaker CEO
dshoemaker@tctcares.com
CareConnect
Port Washington, NY
careconnectmobile.com
CareConnect is an AI-powered workforce optimization platform that delivers a fresh, connected experience for home healthcare organizations and drives value from recruiting to engagement and retention. CareConnect’s ShiftMatch.AI provides agencies with top tools to streamline workflows, increase referrals, reduce cost penalties, and improve engagement–all in one place
New Initiatives or Future Plans
End-to-end hiring solution purpose-built for home care that includes home healthcare hire (ATS), recruiting process outsourcing (RPO), national and regional job board(s), onboarding (SAAS or managed), and compliance (eLearning, occupational health)
Category: Workforce Management Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 60
@CareConnectCare
Matt McGinty CEO
matthew.mcginty@careconnectmobile.com
I’d like to share: CareConnect is focused on helping Home Care agencies recruit, engage, and retain caregivers through a variety of products and services built on top of AI and predictive analytics. • I’d like to learn: I’d like to listen and learn from all of you about how you’re looking to maximize your growth and reduce your costs with ever-shrinking margins in healthcare. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Put the caregiver and the patient in the center. Good things will happen! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the lake in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts
Andrew Packer Chief Growth Officer
andrew.packer@careconnectmobile.com
I’d like to share: CareConnect is an AI-powered workforce optimization platform that delivers a fresh, connected experience for home care agencies and drives value from recruiting to engagement and retention . • I’d like to learn: I’d like to listen and learn more about how home care operators are addressing their front-line workforce management challenges head-on . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be compassionate and resilient, and always remember we’re operating in a human-to-human industry. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Always around family and friends, doing an activity outside, usually near an ocean or lake
CareConnect
Port Washington, NY careconnectmobile.com
Kara Krupa Director, Partnerships
kara.krupa.rn@careconnectmobile.com
I’d like to share: I have been in healthcare for over 24 years. I started as an ER Nurse and then transitioned over to sales, pharmaceuticals, devices and now software. I have two chihuahua boys, Louis and Frankie. • I’d like to learn: The needs of the providers in home care and how my company can best support finding quality patient care and improving their business . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn as much as you can about the industry and the regulations. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the lake in my small town with all of my friends and family
Marki Flannery Board Member
markiflannery@gmail.com
I’d like to share: Competition as well as consolidation of providers is increasing. To mitigate this, it is useful to evaluate new technology solutions which can be beneficial in reducing cost of providing care . • I’d like to learn: What have providers implemented to increase retention of field staff? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Praise and support the aides and clinicians as they are critical in the delivery of care as well as the success of your business . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing outside with my friends. We didn’t go to camp so our block was the place to have fun .
CareRing Health
Louisville, KY careringhealth.com
CareRing Health provides personal care, home health, hospice and home-based primary care services to over 5,000 patients annually across six states. Our mission is to create an entirely new model of care coordination across these service capabilities enabling America’s aged or disabled populations to remain in their own homes whenever possible
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 5,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $250MM
States Operating In: DE, DC, MD, OH, PA, VA
Steve Guenthner CEO
steve.guenthner@careringhealth.com
Spouse/Guest: Franny. • I’d like to share: We founded CareRing Health to bring a broad spectrum of healthcare services at home to patients, aged or disabled, who have challenges accessing our nations healthcare system . • I’d like to learn: How others have learned to coordinate care over the four traditional service Silos of home health, hospice, personal care/private duty, and home based primary care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is not for the faint of heart. Be patient, be committed, be well capitalized, and be principle-based. Never ever give up. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my bike in the neighborhood
Whit Polley Chief Development Officer
whit.polley@careringhealth.com
CareXM, LLC
Lehi, UT carexm.com
As the leader in clinical triage and virtual care, CareXM sets the standard for exceptional patient and provider experiences. Trusted by 4,500+ healthcare organizations, CareXM offers the most reliable path to fully resolving patient needs through fast, accurate triage and patient engagement solutions.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Backed by years of triage data, CareXM understands each patient touchpoint and the associated risks. We’re using that insight to build AI-enabled solutions to make home-based care easier, safer, and more coordinated
Category: Triage Technology
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 450
@Care_XM
Si Luo CEO
si.luo@carexm.com
I’d like to share: How tech-enabled nursing triage operations can be leveraged to expand into broader care coordination and patient engagement for at-home care programs. • I’d like to learn: How leaders think about key areas of transformation ahead for in-home care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Prioritize connection. In home care, building trust with patients and their families is key. Listen, be patient, and always remember you’re making a real difference .
Ellen Kuebrich Chief Growth Officer
ellen.kuebrich@carexm.com
I’d like to share: Insight on how we can improve the afterhours experience for your patients and caregivers either by taking your calls or helping you to take them better with our integrated triage and virtual tech. • I’d like to learn: I’d like to hear what value-based care models you are finding most interesting and impactful and how you are preparing your organizations for future shifts in healthcare policy. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Lean on your peers—this field is full of knowledgeable, empathetic leaders who want the best for patients and the industry. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the pool!
CareXM, LLC
Lehi, UT carexm.com
Forrest Perkins Director, Sales
forrest.perkins@carexm.com
I’d like to share: How organizations are utilizing a unique combination of technology and services to transform their triage operations, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. • I’d like to learn: How organizations are positioning themselves for expected future state of in-home care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be open minded and never forget your “why.” • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing wiffle ball with friends from the neighborhood.
Angie
Deckard
Enterprise Solutions Advisor
angie.deckard@carexm.com
I’d like to share: Happy to talk about significant collaborative learnings with our partners of what does and doesn’t work to increase their capacity. It’s helped us fine-tune a “stay afloat and scale” solution for VBC. • I’d like to learn: What’s your most creative move to survive/thrive in VBC? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Find partners who care as much as you do about your patients’ experience . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Very tall tree tire-swing in the woods. Never got sick of it .
Rachel Marshall
Enterprise Solutions Advisor
rachel.marshall@carexm.com
I’d like to share: We can take your calls or help you take them better! CareXM provides custom telehealth and triage solutions that help you deliver an exceptional care experience for your patients and people . • I’d like to learn: What innovative approach to healthcare delivery are you looking to adopt in 2025? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be inspiring, whether that be with patients, with caregivers, or with colleagues. Every day is a chance to impact the world . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Listening to boats, barges, and trains by the fire on the beach in Red Wing, MN. My grandmother had a cabin on the river we visited every weekend in the summer. Unforgettable!
Caribou Rewards
Toronto, ON caribou.care
Caribou Rewards is a staff incentives platform designed for home care. Motivate caregivers to take extra shifts, recruit their friends, clock-in on time, hit retention milestones, and more. Integrate with your IT systems to automate workflows and save time. By operationalizing rewards, our partners have seen billable hours increase by up to 25% within one year
Category: Recognition, Reward & Incentives
Who We Serve: Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 30
Alex Oosterveen CEO
alex@caribou.care
I’d like to share: Ideas to build an enthusiastic care team that is invested in outcomes. • I’d like to learn: What are your main barriers to growth? Is it still on the staff capacity side? Or client demand? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Spend time shadowing the frontline and coordination staff. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding off on bikes with my friends...just have to get home for dinner!
Caring People Home Care
Boca Raton, FL caringpeople.com
Caring People is a private duty home care company located in 6 states. In addition to private duty home care services, the organization provides care mgt. services as well as behavioral health and skilled nursing
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 1,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $75MM
States Operating In: CT, FL, MA, NJ, NY, TX
Anthony Spero CEO
anthony.spero@caringpeople.com
I’d like to share: We are excited to attend Home Care 100 for the first time! • I’d like to learn: Acquisition opportunities. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build a solid foundation around clinical and compliance, hire the best people, and then get out of their way. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the beach with my family
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amerisa.kornblum@caringpeople.com
Caring Senior Service
San Antonio, TX caringseniorservice.com
Caring Senior Service helps seniors stay happy, healthy, and independent at home. With 55 locations—and plans to add 8-10 more—we deliver exceptional care through our GreatCare® Method. Our innovative management tools give unmatched visibility into client inquiries and streamline hiring, enabling us to respond faster and hire caregivers quicker, setting a new standard in home care
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 2,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $50MM
States Operating In: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KS, MI, MS, NV, NJ, NC, OH, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA
Jeff Salter Founder & CEO
jeff@caringinc.com
I’d like to share: Insights, successes from nationwide electric bike tour, which raised awareness for senior care and highlighted innovative approaches to engagement and advocacy in our industry. • I’d like to learn: Emerging technologies and tools that other leaders are using to enhance the quality of care and operational efficiency in the home care industry. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on the quality of your services, then figure out your niche and drive that home to the market through direct marketing to referral partners. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Just get on my bike and ride to wherever I wanted. I would be gone for hours on hours exploring
Caris Healthcare
Knoxville, TN carishealthcare.com
Caris Healthcare started in August 2003. Since then, the company has grown to 32 offices in five states. At the heart of everything we do is our vision of being the best hospice provider in the markets we serve. The best part of Caris is our employees, who we call partners
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 1,370
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $85MM
States Operating In: GA, MO, SC, TN, VA
Paul Saylor CEO psaylor@carishealthcare.com
I’d like to share: This is my first time attending Home Care 100. • I’d like to learn: Anything that I can use to help improve the performance of my company
• My advice for someone starting out in home care: Make certain that you know what you are getting into—do plenty of research before making a decision . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing outside with my friends
Carolina Caring
Newton, NC carolinacaring.org
Carolina Caring is a non-profit hospice, palliative care, home-based primary care provider
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 800
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $51MM
States Operating In: NC
Dana Killian President & CEO
dkillian@carolinacaring.org
I’d like to share: Our new CNA academy. • I’d like to learn: Unique staffing models for home care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Working in the home care space is so impactful because we meet the patient where they are can provide effective, holistic care . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swimming all day.
CBI Home Health
Etodicoke, ON cbihomehealth.ca
2024 winner of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the 17th year in a row, CBI Home Health provides compassionate, expert care in the place that matters most—our client’s homes. We also deliver an innovative hospital to home program that helps to improve health outcomes, provide greater cost efficiencies, free up needed emergency beds, and shape Canadian healthcare
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $450MM
States Operating In: Canada
Neil King President & COO
nking@cbihealth.ca
I’d like to share: That we have an innovative “hospital to home program” that help Canadians transition from a hospital bed to comfort of their own home. Recovery time is two times faster than staying in the hospital. • I’d like to learn: Given high demand for services would love to learn about flexible ways to schedule for clients while at same time meeting the needs of employees. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Go out on visits and see the difference we make • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Pick up basketball anywhere there’s a game.
Christine Wilson
SVP Home Health Services, Eastern Canada chris.wilson@cbihealth.ca
I’d like to share: I have worked in home care for over 30 years, and I feel we are finally seeing home care come into its own. We are so excited to see the impact of our transformative integrated programs! • I’d like to learn: About home care expansion—proving the value proposition of home care. How both primary and institutional care can benefit from a robust home care sector. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: We all need to push for more robust data to support the value that home care brings to the health and social care system. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Having adventures with my friends in our area of rural southwestern Ontario
CDW Healthcare
Vernon Hills, IL cdwg.com
CDW Healthcare provides technology solutions & services to healthcare organizations. We offer a range of products and services, including hardware and software solutions, cloud computing, security solutions, data storage, networking, and mobility solutions
New Initiatives or Future Plans
CDW Healthcare aiworks with leading technology vendors and offer consulting services to help healthcare organizations select and implement the right technology solutions for their specific needs
Category: Technology Solutions & Services
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 15,000
@CDWCorp
Elizabeth Cramer
Healthcare
Strategist,
Post-Acute & Senior Living
elizabeth.cramer@cdwg.com
I’d like to share: I am passionate about continuing to move the industry forward. As a former clinician, I know there are more efficient ways to provide care . • I’d like to learn: Provider priorities for staff, residents and patients for 2025 and the next three to five years and you see technology enhancing and supporting care • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Don’t be afraid to ask questions. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the water.
CenterWell Home Health
Atlanta, GA
centerwellhomehealth.com
As one of the nation’s largest home health providers, we have over 50 years of experience helping millions of patients take control of their health in the comfort of their homes. Our teams of nurses and therapists help patients rehabilitate, recover and regain their independence so they can live healthier and happier lives
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 87,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $1B
States Operating In: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NV, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI
Sherri Rains Chief Clinical Officer
sherri.rains@centerwellhomehealth.com
Centric Home Health and Hospice
Sherman, TX centrichealth.com
Centric Home Health and Hospice provides blended services of home health and hospice in order to touch more lives at various stages of need.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 1,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $36MM
States Operating In: OK, TX
David Ochoa CEO
david.ochoa@centrichealth.com
I’d like to share: Every day is a blessing. Find joy in each day and share it with your patients. Isn’t that why we do what we do? • I’d like to learn: Innovative insights on the future of Home Health services, including technology that improves the efficiency of our care delivery. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: If I can’t talk you out of it, be aware of the coming changes that are inevitable . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding bikes through the orchards and swimming in the reservoir using the train track bridge as a diving board.
Jon Austin COO
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jon.austin@centrichealth.com
Chapters Health System
Tampa, FL chaptershealth.org
Chapters Health System is a progressive leader in delivering innovative risk-bearing programming through accountable care organizations, Medicare Advantage plan, value-based delivery, homebased primary care, PACE, hospice, palliative care, home health, and pharmacy services designed to improve the lives of those affected by advancing age and illness
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $900MM
States Operating In: CA, DC, FL, GA, MD, NV, NJ, NY, OR, TX, VA
Andrew Molosky President & CEO
moloskya@chaptershealth.org
I’d like to share: Chapters is far more than most people know as an organization. I’m sure yours is also. I would love to connect with you and learn more . • I’d like to learn: About your specific organization, its ambitions, and whether Chapters can assist or partner. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Our ‘space’ is at a crossroads of being recognized both as historically successful but more importantly capable of doing so much more. Focus on the driving the future! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: As my dad used to say “Go outside and play, come back by dinner.” Amazing what was possible when it was you, your friends, and imagination
Jason D’Auria COO, Hospice
jdauria@chaptershealth.org
Tara Friedman, MD Chief Medical Officer
friedman@chaptershealth.org
I’d like to share: Best practices for managing clinical teams through change . • I’d like to learn: How are attendees prioritizing implementation of increasingly abundant tech solutions? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Keep the patient and family top of mind in everything you do. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Building drizzle castles and jumping the waves at the shore .
Choice Health at Home
Tyler, TX
choicehealthathome.com
Choice Health at Home is a diversified in-home healthcare provider in the southwestern US with three core service lines including personal care, home health, and hospice. Our mission at Choice is to enhance the life of every patient we serve in the pursuit of delivering excellent healthcare
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 8,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $275MM
States Operating In: AZ, CO, KS, NV, OK, TX, UT
David Jackson CEO davidjackson@choicehealthathome.com
I’d like to share: I believe that home based healthcare remains in the best position for advancing affordability within the US healthcare industry. • I’d like to learn: I am always excited to learn different ways people are working to improve healthcare delivery in the home. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on quality, growth, and financial stability. Find people and use tools that give you visibility to these three keys. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At a baseball game.
Katrina Lanier Chief Growth Officer
trina.lanier@choicetx.com
I’d like to share: As a clinician, I am committed to patients and families receiving the right level of care at the right time, in their homes. The heart of home care is our patients and families who deserve to live with dignity, comfort and respect, no matter where they call home. Together, we have the power to shape a future where quality care and compassion are the standard for every family and every patient . • I’d like to learn: Opportunities for innovative strategies, technologies, and partnerships that help healthcare leaders drive better outcomes for patients, caregivers and families. Understanding successes and challenges that will help us collectively shape the future of home care to be more accessible, sustainable and impactful. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always remember the “why” behind what you do. It’s about people. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: By the pool and hanging with friends/family
Circadia Health
El Segundo, CA circadia.health
Circadia reduces preventable readmissions using radar-powered contactless monitoring, care coordination, and prediction technology. We monitor over 30k lives daily and help reduce readmissions by 30%. Our proprietary early warning system can identify conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia, COPD and CHF ~100 hours in advance. We work with the largest SNFs, HHAs, and ACOs
Fares Siddiqui CEO & Co-Founder
fs@circadia.health
I’d like to share: Our AI-powered early warning system enables early detection of preventable readmissions. Detect. Predict. Prevent. • I’d like to learn: If you had a wishlist for one product that you could create to make your day to day life as a home health operator easier, what would that be? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Put patients before profits. Create technology that integrates with the day to day clinical workflow. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing sports, researching cars, and breaking and fixing toy
CLA
Minneapolis, MN claconnect.com
CLA exists to create opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused professional services. We impact home health and hospice companies with transaction services (Q of E), post-close integration, outsourced accounting, reimbursement, tax, audit, and financial modeling. We want to get to know you so we can help you
Category: Advisory, Tax & Audit
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care # Employees: 7,000 @claconnect
Jed Cheney Principal
jed.cheney@claconnect.com
I’d like to share: Mostly I’m just excited to be back at another Home Care 100. I always leave energized and with new ideas how we can best help providers and investors. • I’d like to learn: AI solutions providers are adopting in response to worker shortages and other needs. Also, what the view is on the M&A outlook . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Just great networking and education. Make sure to connect with as many people as possible.
John
Laham Principal
john.laham@claconnect.com
Spouse/Guest: Caitlin Faughnan.
Clasp
Boston, MA clasp.com
Clasp bridges education and career in a new way, helping attract and retain clinical talent for hardto-hire roles. Founded in 2018, Clasp tackles the healthcare talent shortage by enabling employers to find talent earlier, keep them longer, and create lasting bonds by investing in their student loan debt instead of sign-on bonuses or traditional solutions
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Retention is the new recruiting. With 10k+ students across 1,140+ programs, we are redefining the healthcare talent landscape. Our scalable platform supports diverse roles while offering robust ROI and impact reporting to inform your talent strategy
Category: Workforce Pipeline
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 45
Tess Michaels CEO & Founder
tess@clasp.com
I’d like to share: Clasp’s results are powerful: year one turnover as low as 5%, and millions of dollars saved by replacing sign-on bonuses, contract labor, and traditional costs of recruiting. • I’d like to learn: How home care leaders are addressing workforce challenges and which strategies have been most effective in recruiting/retaining skilled talent and improving access to care in underserved communities . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on building strong relationships—both with your caregivers and the communities you serve. Trust, empathy, and innovation are keys to long-term success. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Combine my three favorite things—the sunny outdoors, loved ones, and something to satiate the sweet tooth, and I’m in
CommonSpirit Health at Home
Loveland, OH
commonspirithealthathome.com
CommonSpirit Health at Home is a national home-based services organization that has been providing home health, hospice, palliative care, and home infusion for over 40 years, and is rapidly expanding to serve more CommonSpirit Health markets and advance JV partnerships with other health systems across the country
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 15,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $400MM
States Operating In: AZ, AR, CA, CO, IL, IN, KY, MN, NE, ND, OH, OR, TN, TX, WA
Trisha Crissman
President & CEO
trisha.crissman@commonspirit.org
Spouse/Guest: Philip DeTrana. • I’d like to share: I am extremely enthusiastic about the future of care in the home, particularly in light of the newly formed National Alliance for Care in the Home as our advocate and unified front! • I’d like to learn: How providers are leveraging remote work to engage clinicians in non-traditional case management models for home health and hospice patient care . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Stay focused on your WHY and help others to do the same. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: When I was little, every year my family would join three other close families and we would all meet up at Houghton Lake in central MI for a week of lake living at its finest!
Charlotte Haisch Regional VP Operations
charlotte.haisch500@commonspirit.org
Spouse/Guest: Matthew. • I’d like to share: Innovation in home care isn’t just about technology–it’s about reimagining compassionate care—creating pathways that honor dignity and enhance quality of life and produce quality outcomes . • I’d like to learn: Your challenges, solutions and opportunities. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Embrace flexibility and innovation as they allow us to tailor care to the individual needs of patients and adapt to changing healthcare landscape . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: A day at the lake with my family hiking and swimming
Community Based Care
Morrisville, NC cbcare.com
The Community Based Care (CBC) family of providers supports people with individualized support needs and their families to achieve their fullest potential. We match them with the most talented, well-trained, and compassionate team of caregivers, educators, case workers, and leaders anywhere.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
States Operating In: FL, NC, OH, RI, VA
Michael Kotzen President & CEO
mkotzen@cbcare.com
Owen Davis Director
odavis@cbcare.com
Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP)
Arlington, VA chapinc.org
CHAP aims to be your trusted partner in delivering exceptional care, offering a blend of practical standards and innovative solutions backed by comprehensive educational resources and specialized certifications. We are committed to fostering organizational excellence, enhancing revenue opportunities, and making lives better through our proactive accreditation processes
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Career and disease certifications that enhance sales, operations, and leadership skills while improving quality, safety, and outcomes. Our growth solutions simplify healthcare complexities, boosting admissions and revenue with tailored plans
Category: Accreditation
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care, Hospital at Home, Pediatrics, Home Infusion Therapy, DME, Specialty Pharmacy
# Employees: 125 @CHAP_Inc
Teresa Harbour COO
teresa.harbour@chapinc.org
I’d like to share: How age-friendly care at Home and Pediatric Certification, as part of your CHAP Accreditation, positively impacts care delivery, including patient outcomes and patient satisfaction. • I’d like to learn: How CHAP leadership can help support home and community-based organizations with quality initiatives, growth solutions and other support programs needed to address industry challenges . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is the best place to provide and receive care. It requires independence, flexibility to adapt to changing situations, and the dedication to make a difference. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Being outside with my brother and cousins going on adventures, playing in the creek, and floating down the river. I still enjoy this today.
Community Hospice & Palliative Care
Jacksonville, FL communityhospice.com
CHPC is one of the oldest and largest independent hospices in the US, serving a 16-county region in north Florida. Our primary focus is becoming a solutions provider for individuals of any age living with advanced illnesses, through services such as advanced care planning, palliative care, PACE, concurrent care, caregiver support, hospice care, and home care.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
States Operating In: FL
Phillip Ward President & CEO
pward@communityhospice.com
Compassus
Brentwood, TN compassus.com
Compassus is an integrated home care provider, partnering with health systems and delivering superior care to patients.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 30,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $1.5B
States Operating In: AL, AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MA, MI, MS, MO, MT, NH, NJ, NM, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV, WI
Mike Asselta CEO
michael.asselta@compassus.com
Spouse/Guest: Lynnet. • I’d like to share: We are committed to adding value to our industry while focusing on the well-being of our patients and honoring life . • I’d like to learn: How other participants view the value and accountable impact of home health and hospice. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be true to the mission and care for each other as we do our patients . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing outside.
David DeGumbia
Chief Development Officer
david.degumbia@compassus.com
I’d like to share: Looking forward to meeting fellow home-based care colleagues
• I’d like to learn: I look forward to collaborating with health system executives, investment professionals, and home-based care providers looking to partner with Compassus. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Quality homebased care is paramount to the healthcare ecosystem across our country. We all have the privilege and opportunity to positively impact patients!
Concierge Home Care
Jacksonville, FL conciergehomecarefl.com
Exceptional home health and primary care with specialty services throughout Florida. Innovative and agile organization allowing us to meet the needs of our patients, referral sources, and team.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 17,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $200MM
States Operating In: FL
Linda Murphy COO
lmurphy@conciergehomecarefl.com
I’d like to share: Conversation with likeminded people who aim to solve gaps in care with delivery of quality home health. • I’d like to learn: Innovative ideas in delivering more value to our customers. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: You have a unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference in your patients’ lives. In the home, we can have the greatest impact, ability to build trust and tailor care . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my horse and spending time outside
Partner connectRN
Waltham, MA connectrn.com
connectRN is the leading nurse community reimagining a healthcare system where nurses and healthcare partners thrive. Created to provide nurses with flexible work opportunities, and help eradicate the healthcare staffing crisis, connectRN is a trusted advocate and workforce ally for nurses and healthcare partners alike. connectRN serves clinicians across the U.S
Category: Search/Staffing
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Care
# Employees: 200
Cora Jaulin VP Home Health
cjaulin@connectrn.com
I’d like to share: I’m really looking forward to spending a couple of days with this group! I’d love to chat over coffee to catch up on all we’ve been working on in the past year. • I’d like to learn: Are there any changes in perspective on managing a per diem workforce as we enter 2025? Does the lifetime value of a new per diem nurse justify the cost to acquire and train them? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Early on, commit to fully learning about each component of the business. There is a lot of nuance that, if not given the proper attention, can impact growth negatively. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: My absolute best day would be riding horseback on my pony, exploring my family farm. While I now live in Boston, the farm life will always hold a special place in my heart!
Cooperative Home Care
St. Louis, MO cooperativehomecare.com
We are the only family-owned home care company that says “Yes” first to any age, funding, amount of care and service since 1986. We provide every service from a wide variety of funders, including Medicaid In-Home and CDS, Department of Mental Health Personal Care/Advanced Personal Care, VA, private home care services, Medicare home health, and private duty/pediatric nursing
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $50MM
States Operating In: IL, MO @ParentsAging
Mitch Waks President & CEO
mitch@cooperativehomecare.com
Robin Gladwill President
rgladwill@cooperativehomecare.com
I’d like to share: I like to be bold in ideas, thoughtful in my approach, and creative in finding solutions that truly make an impact. The future of home care is ours to shape! • I’d like to learn: Current technology available to assist our clinicians in the field. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: As you start this journey remember that patience, empathy and good communication are key. Ask questions and remember learning and growing are part of the process. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Water—loved to swim, go boating, hang out on the beach
KristyAnn “KAP” Pfister VP
kpfister@cooperativehomecare.com
I’d like to share: How an effective operating system and commitment to technology can transform your business; the importance of defining your core values to create and maintain a strong company culture . • I’d like to learn: The newest opportunities to grow our home care business through AI, technology, etc
• My advice for someone starting out in home care: Invest in an operating system and define your core values. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Throwing and catching a ball against the side of our house; swimming and playing outside .
Court Square Capital Partners
New York, NY courtsquare.com
Court Square is a middle market private equity firm with one of the most experienced investment teams in the industry. Since 1979, Court Square has completed over 245 platform investments, helping managers, families and founder-owners to develop their companies into leaders in their respective markets. Court Square has over $7 billion of assets under management
New
Initiatives or Future Plans
Not necessarily new, but we help founders and managers scale businesses with functional area experts and M&A. We see opportunity to further expand VBC initiatives within home care
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 100
Elaine Liu Principal
eliu@courtsquare.com
I’d like to share: Home care is a high priority thematic for private investors. • I’d like to learn: Opportunities and challenges for home care operators and ways institutional investors can add value. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Mission and culture is a differentiator in the industry. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Hanging out in friend’s swimming pool and visiting family in China
Cressey & Company
Chicago, IL
cresseyco.com
Cressey & Company is a private investment firm focused exclusively on investing in and building leading healthcare businesses. With a history spanning over 30 years, the Cressey & Company team is one of the most experienced and successful in middle-market private equity. Based in Chicago, Illinois, and Nashville, Tennessee, the Firm focuses on investments in healthcare providers as well as related services and technologies.
Ryan Moseley Partner
rmoseley@cresseyco.com
Provider
Cypress HomeCare Solutions
Scottsdale, AZ cypresshomecare.com
We offer personalized senior care with a dynamic, progressive approach. Our reliable caregivers provide a wide range of home care services, from ADL to 24/7 care and companionship. We prioritize client and family well-being, ensuring enhanced quality of life, independence, and peace of mind. Adoption of technology and innovation into our offerings sets us apart from others
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 150
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $6MM
States Operating In: AZ
@CypressHomeCare
Bob Roth
Managing Partner
bobroth@cypresshomecare.com
I’d like to share: Former collegiate athlete with a passion for competition and empathy, dedicated problem solver, advancing ‘more with less’ through tech and innovation, advocating for seniors’ right to age in place. • I’d like to learn: Innovative home care technologies and their impact on improving patient/client outcomes and caregiver experiences and learning more about machine learning to improve work flow. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is hard work. Be passionate, stay involved, and love what you do. This is a relational, not transactional, business. If you’re not up for that, reconsider. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Spending summers as a beach lifeguard taught me water safety, dedication, punctuality, and fitness, at the same time connecting with people and building lasting relationships.
Devoted Guardians
Tempe, AZ devotedguardians.com
Devoted Guardians Home Care is dedicated to providing comprehensive in-home care services from non-medical to medical home health. DG caters primarily to seniors, individuals with disabilities, or those recovering from illness or surgery. Goal is to enhance the quality of life for our clients while ensuring they can live safely and comfortably in their own homes
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 1,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $45MM
States Operating In: AZ
Aaron Sinykin Founder & CEO
aaron@devotedguardians.com
I’d like to share: Excited to enter this new phase of home care where innovation is taking root and new approaches to the industry are being realized. AI and automation will change everything! • I’d like to learn: Always looking to get exposed to new thought tracks and learning for industry leaders. Finding one golden nugget of information makes the whole experience worth it! • My advice for someone starting out in home care: You really need a passion for the industry and look to leave it in a better place than how you found it. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Summer was always hot and humid. So I spent my days doing gymnastics or studying collectible sports cards .
Dhillon Healthcare Group
Salida, CA sevahospice.com
Dhillon Healthcare Group (DHG) is comprised of Seva Hospice, CareOne Home Health, Seva Home Health, and Legacy Home Care. We are a group of compassionate individuals who care deeply about each of our patients and strive to be the best post-acute healthcare provider in the areas we serve. Collectively we serve 20 counties in the Central Valley of California
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 1,080
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $42MM
States Operating In: CA
Tej Dhillon Founder & CEO
tej@sevahospice.com
I’d like to share: I have 12 years of experience leading a group of companies in hospice and home health, willing to collaborate on ideas. Additionally, I am looking to invest in the space of tech/AI for home care. • I’d like to learn: I am eager to have conversations regarding the advancement of the hospice and home care industry through innovations in healthcare tech, AI, and other innovations being introduced to the market. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always put the patient first and treat your clinicians well. Ensure you’re aware of government updates to prepare your agency for future changes – the only constant is change. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Being outdoors all day with friends. Having the ice cream truck come down the street. Anything to do with the water (pool, waterpark, lake, etc.) and golfing
Dragonfly Health
Mesa, AZ
dragonflyhealth.com
Dragonfly Health is the only DME and pharmacy management solution that provides access to industry experts, a comprehensive nationwide provider network, and a powerful user-centric software platform. We deliver peace of mind to patients and caregivers while supporting our post-acute partners’ efficiency, cost, and quality goals
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We’ve integrated the data sets of two primary solutions into one, creating a comprehensive system for managing DME and Pharmacy products. This enhancement aims to improve efficiency and accuracy in logistics management to improve patient care
Category: DME/HME Management Solutions
Who We Serve: Hospice, Palliative Care, PACE, Hospital @ Home, SNF
# Employees: 1,000
@DragonflyHealth
Chris Roode President & COO
chris.roode@dragonflyhealth.com
I’d like to share: Dragonfly Health exists to provide a comprehensive offering of solutions that improve quality of life and transform the care-at-home experience for clients, caregivers, patients, and their families. • I’d like to learn: Obstacles related DME and pharmacy services that may limit a Provider’s care-at-home experience. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Embrace tough times. The magic is in the hard stuff that most people avoid. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my BMX bike, skateboard, and climbing trees until the street lights came on.
Brittney Jaskowiak
SVP Client Success
brittney.jaskowiak@dragonflyhealth.com
I’d like to share: How Dragonfly Health is streamlining the clinician’s workflow and improving patient care while delivering unprecedented synergies through combined DME and pharmacy solutions. • I’d like to learn: What strategies or tools are you leveraging at your organization to improve nurse satisfaction, improve patient experience, and gain operational efficiencies? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Utilize the passion that drew you to home care in your day to day decision making! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Simple things such as playing outside, swimming, and visits from the ice cream truck!
Dragonfly Health
Mesa, AZ
dragonflyhealth.com
Kristin Nelson SVP Post-Acute Sales
kristin.nelson@dragonflyhealth.com
I’d like to share: Dragonfly Health is excited to introduce combined DME and PBM services with the goal to improve patient outcomes, decrease cost and provide the most cutting edge technology driven by AI. • I’d like to learn: How hospices are planning for the increase in expected census as baby boomers begin aging into hospice. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: There is never a dull moment, enjoy the ride. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Waterskiing
Andrew Bar Area VP Sales
andrew.bar@dragonflyhealth.com
I’d like to share: How Dragonfly Health is leveraging our advanced technology solution to enhance the patient experience across the post-acute continuum . • I’d like to learn: How organizations are navigating staffing shortages while providing superior patient care and expanding service offerings. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn continuously, focus on providing the best patient experience and success will follow. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Outdoors, fishing and playing sports with neighborhood kids
Edison Partners
Nashville, TN edisonpartners.com
Edison Partners is a 38 year-old growth equity fund with offices in Nashville, TN and Princeton, NJ and we are currently investing out of our 11th fund. We have a track record of scaling businesses via GTM strategy, sales expertise, and financial planning. Our portfolio consists of companies in healthcare IT, fintech, and enterprise software,
Felix Rauch Investor
frauch@edisonpartners.com
I’d like to share: I am an investor at Edison Partners, a 40-year-old growth equity fund out of Nashville, Tennessee, investing in home care/AIP technologies. Excited to get to know many folks with a passion for the industry. • I’d like to learn: Trends in the home care market and understand the main pain points the industry is experiencing. What are some promising technologies that you see can help solve these? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be ready for change. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing tennis tournaments across Europe
Elara Caring
Dallas, TX
elara.com
Elara Caring delivers exceptional personalized in-home care services by hiring compassionate people who believe in taking care of our patients, our clients, our care providers and each other. Our team is nearly 30,000 caregivers strong and we serve patients in 19 states offering a full continuum of care facilitated through ElaraConnect to allow for easy access to care
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 65,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $1B
States Operating In: AK, CT, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MI, MO, MT, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, RI, TN, TX
Scott Powers CEO
spowers@elara.com
Spouse/Guest: Sarah.
Ananth Mohan COO
amohan@elara.com
Laura Hamrick Chief People Officer
lhamrick@elara.com
I’d like to share: Elara Caring is in the people caring for people business. As a Chief People Officer, I spend my days working to ensure the best possible experience for our caregivers!. • I’d like to learn: Strategies to help caregivers work at the top of their license - mitigating administrative tasks and reducing commute times. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Treating patients in their home is the future of care! As more care migrates to the home, we must focus on ways to support and engage our dispersed and remote workforce. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Sunny days were full of beach time and family fun. Great memories!
Provider
Elara Caring
Dallas, TX elara.com
Chris Mate Chief Information Officer
cmate@elara.com
Brent Nash Chief Strategy Officer
bnash@elara.com
I’d like to share: Home Care 100 brings us together with the common goal of improving home-based healthcare. Looking forward to networking, sharing how we strive to offer the best care for our patients and value to our payor partners . • I’d like to learn: Let’s discuss ways we can drive outcomes and value through the linking of multiple home-based services. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: If you are reading this, you are already doing well! Home Care 100 provides a great venue to learn from those with an abundance of experience in home care. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Reading a book or playing touch football with family on the beach of Lake Michigan, and this remains the same today!
Tom Firmani President, Personal Care Services
tfirmani@elara.com
I’d like to share: Together, we have the opportunity to transform the personal care industry by advancing reimbursement rates and delivering enhanced, valuebased services to our clients. • I’d like to learn: Your perspective of what may be impacted and how to navigate the potential changes the new administration may have on home care. What do you look for? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build your business from the client and caregiver experience backwards
Element5
San Jose, CA e5.ai
Element5 simplifies post-acute care operations with fully managed automation solutions. By integrating providers, payors, and clearinghouses, it helps staff focus on patient-centric outcomes instead of paperwork. Using AI agents, Element5 automates processes across authorizations, eligibility, compliance, and RCM, improving team efficiency
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Element5 continues to enhance our AI platform, expand our connected network, and drive process optimization. Neos, our next-gen solution, provides centralized visibility to submit and track authorizations
Category: Automation
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice
# Employees: 188
@Element5AI
Joe Randesi
Co-Founder & CEO
joe@e5.ai
I’d like to share: One of my favorite quotes is “you won’t be replaced by AI, but you may end up replaced by someone who uses AI better than you.” • I’d like to learn: If you had unlimited staff capacity, what key changes would you make to your operation and why? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Understand the macro economics. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing sports.
Eric Gordon
Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer
eric@e5.ai
I’d like to share: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” – Amara’s Law. Be patient and embrace change! • I’d like to learn: What new technology is having the greatest impact on you and/or your business? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Developing strong relationships built on trust, empathy, and patience will help you deliver exceptional care and create a positive experience for your team . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Sailing on, swimming in, or sitting on the shore of the Great Lakes
Element5
San Jose, CA e5.ai
Ginger Voss Head of Strategic Engagement
ginger@e5.ai
I’d like to share: Solutions are available for managing overly burdensome administrative tasks within your operations. Using our AI Agents and automations optimize productivity and elevate your staffing resources . • I’d like to learn: How leaders evaluate and make decisions on new technologies, and best practices for implementation and change management. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: There’s nothing more value than having a mentor who can guide and help you navigate unique situations, learn processes and understand industry specifics . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the beach, which is still the same today.
Emerest Health/Royal Care Home Health
Brooklyn, NY
royalcare.nyc
We provide skilled home care and home health services across five states
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 10,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $350MM
States Operating In: CT, MO, NJ, NY, PA
Joseph Katz Chief Administrative Officer
jkatz@royalcertified.nyc
I’d like to learn: New payment module effect. M&A
Empassion
New York, NY empassion.com
Empassion is dedicated to providing palliative and hospice care to patients and families living with a serious illness. We partner with community-based providers to deliver exceptional care. We operate nationally today, serving Medicare Advantage, original Medicare, Dual, and Commercial members
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Palliative Care
Average Daily Census: 1,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $31MM
Robin Heffernan, PhD CEO
robin@empassion.com
I’d like to share: I am excited to meet great people passionate about care in the home. I would love also to hear of innovative experiences . • I’d like to learn: How people are advancing home care, with a special interest in how people are advancing palliative and hospice care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Critical to understand the best care that is also respected by payers that they are actively willing to reimburse. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I spent summers on a lake where my grandfather tinkered and owned the small town yacht club. I loved being outside and responsible for my own adventures each day
Empath Health
Clearwater, FL empathhealth.org
Empath Health is uniquely devoted to pioneering all-embracing care that provides for the full life. We’re here for all stages of care, for all dimensions of well-being and for all aspects dear to one’s life. We consider it a privilege and a calling to give more of ourselves in order to offer a truly exceptional experience, unlike any other
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 14,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $580MM
States Operating In: FL
Jonathan Fleece President & CEO
jfleece@empathhealth.org
I’d like to share: I’m driven by the belief that healthcare should be compassionate, extraordinary, and centered on the individual needs of patients and their loved ones. At Empath that means Full Life Care for All. • I’d like to learn: New home care innovations 2025 and beyond. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on getting the right people, best technology, and best processes . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my bike
Tarrah Lowry
Interim President, Trustbridge & COO
tlowry@trustbridge.com
Spouse/Guest: Jake Torres. • I’d like to share: As always, I look forward to Home Care 100! Seeing friends, meeting care partners and learning from industry leaders is what makes Home Care 100 one of my favorite events of the year. • I’d like to learn: I always pick up new best practices when I attend. I am looking forward to the Innovators Bowl this year! • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Our industry is always evolving. While learning basics is key to your foundation, learning from payors and provider types within healthcare are key to strategic success . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I grew up on a cattle ranch in southern Colorado, so I spent most of my days outside. My grandparents had a mountain cabin so lots of fishing too!
Empath Health
Clearwater, FL empathhealth.org
Saida Bouhamid CFO
sbouhamid@empathhealth.org
Bivek Pathak
Chief Information & Digital Strategy Officer
bpathak@trustbridge.com
Rhonda Sanders-Allamon
Chief
Access Officer
rhondasanders@empathhealth.org
I’d like to share: Empath Health is an organization that understands that the post acute healthcare landscape is changing, and Empath is dedicated to innovation and supporting colleagues, patients, and families we serve. • I’d like to learn: Managed care continues to grow, and with the increases in those 55+ and older how can we partner together to do the right thing for consumers and be paid fairly for the services provided? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Think innovatively and be an agent for change. Do not resist change and always sell your value. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the waterpark with my friends. The Texas heat is real!
Empeon
Montebello, NY empeon.com
Empeon enterprise human capital management products, including human resources, time management, payroll, benefits, scheduling and talent acquisition, were developed specifically to meet the unique and complex needs of HR and payroll professionals. Automation replaces tedious and repetitive tasks and lets your company focus on what matters: empowering your people
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We’re enhancing our software by developing tailored features, improving mobile access, integrating with care systems, and providing strong support and compliance tools. User feedback will guide our progress for effective workforce management
Category: Human Capital Management
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 70
Alaina Johnson Account Executive
alainaj@empeon.com
Enclara Pharmacia
Philadelphia, PA enclarapharmacia.com
Enclara Pharmacia is the nation’s leading full-service PBM and mail order pharmacy in the hospice sector, delivering innovative pharmacy solutions to enable providers and caregivers to improve quality of life for people with progressive illnesses. Enclara combines clinical support, personal service and powerful technology to help hospices work efficiently and manage costs
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Enclara is developing models to apply our pharmacy distribution and clinical expertise to the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) and community-based palliative care. We are also piloting mail order infusion services in three states.
Category: Pharmacy
Who We Serve: Hospice @enclara
Mark Morse CEO
mmorse@enclarapharmacia.com
I’d like to share: This is my fifth Home Care 100 event, and I’d like to thank everyone who has taken time to meet with me and share their thoughts . • I’d like to learn: The environment in which we operate is changing in regard to technology, regulation, and more. How can we work together to co-create new solutions that you might not normally expect Enclara to provide? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: If you start by focusing on the patient and your team then you are off to a great start! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Fishing off a dock up in Maine
Deanna Douglass SVP Business Development
ddouglass@enclarapharmacia.com
I’d like to share: Ideas. With over 20 years in the hospice industry, I’m interested in sharing observations and ideas with attendees. • I’d like to learn: How do we improve access to the great care that hospice provides? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be kind. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding the tractor and feeding the horses with my grandpa
Enclara Pharmacia
Philadelphia, PA enclarapharmacia.com
Patrick Leary VP Client Services
pleary@enclarapharmacia.com
I’d like to share: A partnership with Enclara is dedicated to efficiencies, cost control and strategic alignment to help your hospice thrive. We value our partners . • I’d like to learn: As a crucial partner how can Enclara further enhance our support model to add value to your staff and organization? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn daily, understanding that the importance of your work and deeds impacts everyone around you. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: From the city pool to baseball practice, to playing hide and go seek with the neighborhood kids–life was amazing in the summers!
Enhabit Home Health & Hospice
Dallas, TX ehab.com
Enhabit Home Health & Hospice (Enhabit, Inc.) is a leading national home health and hospice provider working to expand what’s possible for patient care in the home. Enhabit’s team of clinicians supports patients and their families where they are most comfortable, with a nationwide footprint spanning 256 home health locations and 112 hospice locations across 34 states
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 45,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $1.5B
States Operating In: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MA, MS, MO, MT, NV, NM, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV, WY
Barbara Jacobsmeyer President & CEO
barbara.jacobsmeyer@ehab.com
I’d like to share: I always look forward to networking and learning from each other. • I’d like to learn: What is the one best thing they have done different in their organization in the past year and why? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: You must use all different types of channels of communication. Clinicians that spend so much time in their cars and in patients’ homes don’t have time to read emails • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding our bikes all around the neighborhood
Bud Langham
EVP Clinical Excellence & Strategy
bud.langham@ehab.com
I’d like to share: That this industry needs to band together on policy and advocacy, now more than ever, to ensure home health remains a viable option for home bound elderly seniors for many years to come. • I’d like to learn: I am curious about how others are investing in experience innovation . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Do your homework. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing baseball
Enzo Health
Lehi, UT enzo.health
Enzo Health is a documentation co-pilot for home health. We use AI to automate processes like intake, scribing, and quality assurance, improving performance and decreasing costs automating documentation with AI. We empower home health and hospice agencies with automated OASIS coding, streamlined referral processes, and efficient documentation tools, boosting operational efficiency and improving bottom lines. Enzo Health simplifies documentation to let providers focus on what matters most
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Enzo is seeking to develop more robust integrations with the EHRs we currently work with continued focus on developing AI-driven solutions like automated OASIS coding and review, intake automation, and advanced scribe tools for documentation
Category: AI/Documentation
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice
# Employees: 14 @enzo_health
Zach Newman CEO
zach@enzo.health
I’d like to share: Enzo Health uses AI to streamline documentation in home health. This includes intake automation, scribing, and coding and Oasis Review, all powered by AI. • I’d like to learn: How high on their priority list automation and AI-focused tools are for improving operational efficiency in home care settings . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on leveraging technology to optimize your processes early—it will save time, reduce errors, and allow you to focus more on delivering exceptional patient care. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing baseball and running around the neighborhood with friends, finding new adventures
Dan Conger CTO
dan@enzo.health
I’d like to share: Enzo Health harnesses AI to enhance documentation processes in home health, offering solutions like intake automation, scribing, and coding and OASIS Review—all driven by advanced AI technology. • I’d like to learn: Where automation and AI-powered tools rank on your list of priorities for improving operational efficiency in home care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Adopting technology early to optimize workflows is key—it saves time, minimizes errors, and allows you to dedicate more focus to providing outstanding patient care . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Jumping off a rope swing into the local swimming hole or when I was a bit older, going out as a deckhand on my best friend’s dad’s charter boat and deep sea fishing.
Equity Health
Greensboro, NC
equityhealthcares.com
Equity Health delivers exceptional primary care where and when patients need it
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home-Based Primary Care
Average Daily Census: 385
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $2MM
States Operating In: NC
Michelle Schmerge CEO
michelle.schmerge@equityhealthcares.com
I’d like to share: I am looking forward to the inclusion of primary care models in the home based care space. • I’d like to learn: From attendees who are trying new models of care to meet patient needs . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Write down your funny stories. You cannot make this stuff up! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Out on the lake waterskiing.
Everent Health
Louisville, KY bgcarenav.org
Everent Health is a supporting organization for non-profit providers of hospice, palliative, PACE, home health and serious illness care.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 2,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $190MM
States Operating In: KY
Liz Fowler President & CEO
lfowler@bgcarenav.org
I’d like to share: Affiliations, mergers and acquisitions come in many forms. I’d like to share about the formation of Everent Health.
David Cook President
dcook@hosparus.org
I’d like to share: Everent Health serves to support nonprofit providers of care focused on those facing serious illness. • I’d like to learn: More on the latest trends in value-based care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Enjoy and engage. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Anything outside
Bethany Snider SVP & CMO
bsnider@hosparus.org
Spouse/Guest: John. • I’d like to share: Our experience in community-based palliative care and the impact it can have in value-based models. • I’d like to learn: Innovative models in homecare that foster sustainability while solving for access issues in our country. We cannot forget those in underserved communities and I hope to hear solutions. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be curious always and try to imagine solutions we do not have today. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: In the pool with friends
EvergreenHealth
Kirkland, WA evergreenhealth.com/health-services/home-care
EvergreenHealth is a two-hospital system with the first clinically-integrated network in the region as well as the largest combined single location home care organization in the Pacific Northwest. EvergreenHealth is consistently named as one of Healthgrades America’s 50 best hospitals and is one of only 381 hospitals nationwide to hold a 2024 CMS 5-star overall rating
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 2,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $96MM
States Operating In: WA
Monique Gablehouse
COO, Post-Acute Care, Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Medicine, & Behavioral Health
mbgablehouse@evergreenhealth.com
Spouse/Guest: Adam. • I’d like to share: How to weather change and balance out your leadership team to create a dynamic equilibrium. • I’d like to learn: How are you bringing the fun to the office or virtual office for your teams? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Make sure that you incorporate self-care into your routine, whatever that looks like for you. It is important to create work-life balance . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Sliding on an ice block down a grassy hill, or roller skating outside .
Excelin Health
Irving, TX excelin.com
Excelin Health provides home health and hospice services over three states in the US. The company prides itself on providing quality care and leveraging a clinically-led organization within its structure and growth strategy
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 3,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $95MM
States Operating In: CA, LA, TX
Alicia Marr CEO amarr@excelin.com
I’d like to share: As providers, we are not alone in navigating the dynamic shifts in our industry. Capitalize on the opportunities to collaborate and innovate to better serve our patients. • I’d like to learn: Additional innovative strategies agencies are considering for the future of home care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care services will continue to be in high demand, but you must have a strategic plan and navigate industry changes immediately in order to be successful . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Ending a hot Texas summer day with an ice cream cone was the best!
Maureen Spivack Chairperson of the Board
maureenspivack@comcast.net
I’d like to share: We provide great care to Excelin Health patients! • I’d like to learn: How we turn around CMS’s stance on home health reimbursement . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Compliance and good care always comes first • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swimming with friends
Family & Nursing Care
Silver Spring, MD familynursingcare.com
Since 1968, Family & Nursing Care has always been 100% private pay home care, family-owned with full intention to stay that way (no M&A, no PE, etc.). We have exciting growth plans to strategically expand into other states
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 750
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $60MM
States Operating In: DC, MD, PA
Neal Kursban CEO
nkursban@familynursingcare.com
Spouse/Guest: Andrea. • I’d like to share: Take extraordinary care of your direct care workers (home care aides) and most of your staffing shortage challenges will go away. • I’d like to learn: How to get disparate softwares (EMR, CRM, ATS, Payroll provider, MS Teams, CG Training platform, HIPAA compliant texting feature, etc.) to “talk” to one another. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Get out— just kidding. Keep your focus on the client and direct care worker experience. Systemically set up data driven internal processes to obtain their feedback . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: So many kids right in my neighborhood. We played outside all day, came inside only to eat, and back outside we went. Fantastic childhood!
Jeff Zukerman President
jzukerman@familynursingcare.com
Spouse/Guest: Jennifer. • I’d like to share: Florida in January sounds absolutely incredible right now. • I’d like to learn: How others are effectively utilizing AI to generate tangible benefits and drive meaningful improvementsraining platform, HIPAA compliant texting feature, etc.) to “talk” to one another. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus first on taking care of the caregivers. If your caregivers are happy, your clients will be happy. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Nothing like summertime at the beach.
First Choice In-Home Care
Renton, WA fcihc.com
We’ve been in operation since 1999 and are one of the largest Medicaid Contract home care agencies in Washington state.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 2,900
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $90MM
States Operating In: WA
Jim Lord President &
Owner
jim@fcihc.com
I’d like to share: Looking forward to the seminars and developing relationships • I’d like to learn: IT enhancements and innovations. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Organize your company as a “C” Corporation, make sure your Home Care Software Solution is what you need, and work 80 hours a week. Guaranteed Success!!! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Baseball. The best year was 1969 – that summer I attended almost every Seattle Pilots home game
Thomas (TJ) Lord COO
tjlord@fcihc.com
I’d like to share: Looking forward to the conference. • I’d like to learn: Agency best practices, management suite solution, IT innovations . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Don’t believe in the caregiver shortage. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Fishing with my dad, grampa, and brothers
Forcura
Jacksonville, FL forcura.com
Forcura, a healthcare workflow management company, enables healthcare providers to streamline incoming patient information and coordinate ongoing patient care resulting in improved business performance. Our HITRUST-certified SaaS solution facilitates automation, collaboration, and analytics with seamless EHR integration to support compliance with quality of care standards
New Initiatives or Future Plans
In 2025, Forcura is focused on further connectivity with the ambulatory physician market and enhanced AI-enabled referral management capabilities
Category: Document Management
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 110
@Forcura
Craig Mandeville CEO & Founder
cmandeville@forcura.com
I’d like to share: We are moving faster than ever integrating AI automation within the Forcura platform to enable your team to do more with less. Let’s chat! • I’d like to learn: What is your top personal goal for 2024? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Get involved and meet as many of the leaders in the industry as you can. This is a relationship-based industry, don’t be salesy, be yourself, and provide value. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Get to the beach early and surf or skim board depending on the quality of the waves.
Annie Erstling
COO
aerstling@forcura.com
I’d like to share: Forcura is committed to connecting home-based care providers with physician and payer partners. We are investing in care coordination capabilities as well as AI to make this happen. • I’d like to learn: I would like perspective on how the payer community is thinking about the role of home-based care in the broader continuum. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Reframe your perspective. Home care is a very different sector from other areas of healthcare . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Jumping off bridges into the French Broad River in my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina
Jacksonville, FL forcura.com
Doug Keyes VP dkeyes@forcura.com
I’d like to share: The benefits of AI for home healthcare. • I’d like to learn: Top five goals for your organization in 2025. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Have a passion for caring. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Public pool during the day and kick the can early evening
Forvis Mazars
Springfield, MO forvismazars.us.com
With a legacy spanning more than 100 years, Forvis Mazars is proud to serve 5,200+ clients across the continuum of care, including over 400 home care and hospice organizations nationwide. We can help improve revenue cycle and financial health, operate more efficiently, improve clinical outcomes, comply with government regulations, and overcome strategic challenges
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We can offer tailored support if your organization is considering a transaction or challenged by recent government compliance initiatives, such as Targeted Probe and Educate, Advanced Oversight, or the Special Focus Program
Category: Advisory, Tax, & Audit
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 7,000
@ForvisMazarsUS
M. Aaron Little Managing Director
maaron.little@us.forvismazars.com
I’d like to share: While our firm’s name has changed the last two years from BKD to FORVIS to Forvis Mazars, our home care and hospice service team has remained focused on delivering unmatched client service . • I’d like to learn: How organizations are using technology/AI to improve revenue cycle performance, and what kind of strategies have been successful at improving Medicare Advantage payer relationships . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Get to know the people in the care at home industry. They are all looking for ways to solve unique challenges . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing in creeks and riding my bike around the small community in rural Missouri where I grew up
Mark Sharp Partner
mark.sharp@us.forvismazars.com
Spouse/Guest: Darcey. • I’d like to share: Forvis Mazars, a top 10 CPA firm in the US, has a team of 30+ CPAs and advisors fully dedicated to serving home care and hospice providers in over 40 states across the US. • I’d like to learn: Tools and strategies home care and hospice executives intend to focus on over the next five to ten years to deal with increased pressures on maintaining sufficient operating margins . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Get involved in the industry trade associations and conferences. It is an excellent way to learn best practices and develop relationships to assist along the way. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding and jumping our motorcross bikes on the country roads and in the pastures
Forvis Mazars
Springfield, MO forvismazars.us.com
Jay Stine Partner
jay.stine@us.forvismazars.com
I’d like to share: I am grateful to be at Home Care 100 and be a part of this community. • I’d like to learn: What are the challenges you are facing today and tomorrow? And what solutions are being pursued to address these challenges? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Make sure you have the right team to do this with. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Being in southwest Michigan
Four Seasons
Flat Rock, NC fourseasonscare.org
Four Seasons provides hospice care, palliative care, home care, care navigation, and complimentary grief services to thirteen counties in western North Carolina. Palliative care, care navigation, and volunteer programs are key services we use to deliver a high quality patient experience through collaborative relationships with community healthcare partners and vendors
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 580
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $45MM
States Operating In: NC
Ryan Cannon Chief Innovation Officer
rcannon@fourseasonscfl.org
I’d like to share: I serve Four Seasons by leading our teams in care navigation, finance, growth, legislative communications, revenue management, and strategy. • I’d like to learn: Operational strategies to manage communications and time effectively. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn how value is communicated internally at your organization and how value is conveyed to the patients you seek to serve. Seek to align these in all you do. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Outside climbing mountains on a trail or fishing creeks, ponds, rivers, or the ocean .
Frazier Healthcare Partners
Seattle, WA
frazierhealthcare.com
Founded in 1991, Frazier Healthcare Partners is a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry. Frazier has raised over $9 billion of capital for private funds and co-investment opportunities and has invested in more than 200 companies over 33 years
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Care
# Employees: 100
David Kosloff Executive in Residence
david.kosloff@frazierpartners.com
Frontpoint Health
Richardson, TX frontpointhealthcare.com
Frontpoint Health is an innovator in the home care industry, providing genuine access to care in the home. We seek to disrupt the norm, to accept Medicare Advantage patients en masse, and thereby add value to health systems and payers by keeping their patient’s home
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 4,200
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $70MM
States Operating In: TX @homecarefuture
Brent Korte CEO
brentkorte@frontpointhealthcare.com
I’d like to share: Looking forward to learning from colleagues once again . • I’d like to learn: How more forward-thinking providers are using technology to improve process flow. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: You will succeed if you love the work. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the family farm with my brothers, drinking pop, laying coins on the track, hiding in hay bales, and catching snakes
Goodworks
Boulder, CO goodworksbpo.com
We improve the health of your business by optimizing people-dependent processes in your back office so you can focus more on your patient care. Over the last ten years, we have helped some of the largest national home healthcare agencies increase revenue, decrease costs, and innovate their back-office operations
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Goodworks continues to build on our long history of partnering with agency leaders to deliver operational solutions and drive greater value across their organizations. This means better outcomes delivered by an engaged workforce at the lowest cost
Category: Operations Support
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 250
@Goodworkstweets
Erik Bailey President
ebailey@goodworksbpo.com
Spouse/Guest: Erin. • I’d like to share: My experience designing and executing people-dependent processes for home health and hospice agencies. How I can help reduce costs and increase revenue, cash flow, and employee satisfaction . • I’d like to learn: How are you using technology and partners like Goodworks to create more efficiencies in your clinical and non-clinical operations? How are your unsigned orders impacting your revenue and cash flow? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: You are about to embark on a rewarding journey. Make sure you put on your oxygen mask first so you can help those around you. Self-care helps the long game. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I loved to sail and waterski at the lake with my friends and family
Graham Healthcare Group
Nashville, TN
grahamhealthcaregroup.com
Graham Healthcare Group owns and operates healthcare companies across the United States. Graham’s home health, palliative, and hospice service lines range from startups in underserved markets to historic business that have served their community for decades
Tax Status: For Profit
Average Daily Census: 15,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $300MM
States Operating In: AK, FL, IL, KS, MI, MO, OH, PA
David Curtis
CEO,
Home Health
david.curtis@grahamhealth.com
I’d like to share: I always appreciate coming to this conference over the last nearly 20 years and learning and laughing with all of you. • I’d like to learn: The latest strategies to save field clinicians time in the field . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Go do ten ride-a-longs with field clinicians . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the beaches of Lake Michigan.
Justin DeWitte CEO, Hospice
jdewitte@grahamhealth.com
I’d like to share: Continuing to press for savings and efficiencies while improving the patient and team experience. • I’d like to learn: How they are approaching electronic communication with patients . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be in the detail. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Fishing at my grandparents lake
Griswold Home Care
Blue Bell, PA griswoldcare.com
Griswold was founded by Dr. Jean Griswold in 1982. For 43 years we have been providing outstanding non-medical home care. We have and are continuing to look to find new owners to expand our home care services throughout the United States. We our goal is to consistently add 20 new owners for the next several years
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $225MM
States Operating In: AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, IA, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA
Steve Turner COO
steven.turner@griswoldcare.com
I’d like to share: Griswold is a 43 year-old home care company, with 105 owners plus five company-owned offices to provider outstanding home care in 31 states. We are leveraging tech and data to look at improving outcomes . • I’d like to learn: What new technology companies are using to streamline their businesses and attract more caregivers and clients. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Make sure you understand the day-to-day operations of a home care office. Office theory does not always translate to actual in office experience . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Either on a baseball field with my glove and bat or swimming at the pool with my friends
Gulfside Healthcare Services
Land O’Lakes, FL gulfside.org
Gulfside is proud to be one of the few non-profit hospice organizations in Pasco County. No one in need of care should ever be turned away because of their financial situation or lack of insurance. Reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance cover about 85% of the cost for our patients and families. Donations help fill the remaining gap – ensuring that no patient is turned away because of an inability to pay.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
States Operating In: FL
Linda Ward President & CEO
linda.ward@gulfside.org
HarmonyCares
Troy, MI
harmonycares.com
HarmonyCares is the leading provider of home-based healthcare services to seniors and disadvantaged populations, providing a continuum model to ensure that everyone has access to high-quality care
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home-Based Primary Care
Average Daily Census: 50,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $150MM
States Operating In: FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MO, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI
Scott Vasey President, Home Health – Skilled, Hospice, & Palliative Care
svasey@harmonycares.com
I’d like to share: Home and community-based services are critical, as we continue to advance a whole-person, patient-centered care model to drive outcomes, treating people where they eat, sleep, pray, and play. • I’d like to learn: How will we win the managed care battle over low reimbursement and costly administrative processes? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Keep the patient experience at the center of everything you do. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Fishing in the creek in the morning and playing baseball in the churchyard in the afternoon.
Harris Williams
Richmond, VA
harriswilliams.com
Harris Williams is a global investment bank specializing in M&A advisory services. The Healthcare and Life Sciences Group has experience across a range of sectors, including healthcare providers, payors and payor services, outsourced pharmaceutical services, medical device and supply chain, healthcare IT, and pharmacy
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Capitalize on recent traction with value-based care models
Category: Finance – Investment Bank
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 750 @PNCNews
James Clark Managing Director jclark@harriswilliams.com
I’d like to share: We are not tourists in this space. We’ve advised on 25 scaled, high quality transactions over two decades. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be patient and play the long game. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing tennis
HCR Home Care
Rochester, NY hcrhealth.com
HCR Home Care operates both home health and personal care agencies in 25 counties throughout Upstate New York. HCR offers community health services and clinical specialty programs including skilled nursing, physical, occupational, speech and language therapies, medical social work, registered dietician, and home health aides
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 2,300
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $56MM
States Operating In: NY @HCRtips
Suzanne Turchetti President sturchetti@hcrhealth.com
I’d like to share: HCR’s unique programs to grow our workforce and increase retention. • I’d like to learn: How agencies are using AI in their operations . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Adaptability is important. Home care can change quickly, so staying flexible and resourceful are keys to success .
HCS-Girling
Brooklyn, NY girlingny.com
Founded in 2024, sole owner (husband and wife), headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, for profit, home health (NY and FL), home care (NY) and consumer directed (NY and MO). Serve Office of Persons with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) in NYC, Nassau and Suffolk. Serve approximately 35,000 patients annually
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
States Operating In: FL, MO, NY
Agnes Shemia CEO
ashemia@hcshomecare.com
I’d like to share: As a clinician and executive who has been working in home care for over two decades, I understand the importance of seeing the forest for the trees now more than ever. • I’d like to learn: How my colleagues currently effectuate change and drive outcomes. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Don’t underestimate the role home care plays in a patient, even if the rest of the healthcare industry doesn’t always recognize it. A person thrives in their own home! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Upstate New York with my friends enjoying sports and the outdoors
Jeffrey Shemia CEO
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jshemia@girlingny.com
Max Lafer Chief Legal Officer & Chief Strategy Officer
mlafer@girlingny.com
HCS-Girling
Brooklyn, NY girlingny.com
Rob Caione EVP Strategy
rcaione@girlingny.com
I’d like to share: I previously served on the Home Care 100 Advisory Board for six years (2016–2023). I did not attend in 2024. I am very excited to be attending in my new role with HCS-Girling. • I’d like to learn: New innovations in the home provider sector and the PACE Model. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Attend all of the sessions at this conference, meet attendees and develop relationships that will help you achieve your goals. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Being outside all day with my brothers, sister and friends and being exhausted at night and doing it all over again the next day
Sean Spellberg VP Strategic Development
sspellberg@girlingny.com
I’d like to share: I’ve taken an active operational leadership position with Pinnacle Home Care. • I’d like to learn: What I can do to drive accountability and operational excellence within the organization. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Find people who are long-term oriented and care about your development
Health Recovery Solutions (HRS)
Hoboken, NJ
healthrecoverysolutions.com
Health Recovery Solutions supplies leading healthcare providers with a robust remote patient monitoring and telehealth platform aimed at changing patient behavior to reduce readmissions and improve clinical outcomes
New Initiatives or Future Plans
A partnership to supply cellular devices for providers and patients, a continuous monitoring patch for our hospital-at-home service, and a new generative AI virtual nursing assistant to enhance care and communication
Category: Telehealth
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 185
Jarrett Bauer
Founder & Chairman
jbauer@healthrecoverysolutions.com
I’d like to share: This is the best community of individuals. Over the course of nine years attending the conference, I’ve gone from carefully calculating the cost per hour of attending to enjoying it with lifelong friends. • I’d like to learn: How are attendees navigating their payor partners for organic growth? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on building trust and relationships, everything is easy after that. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Hockey camp. It turned out to be the best ROI for my dad (and me), as we now play on the same line together in a men’s league 30 years later
Sudeep
Pisipaty
Head of Commercial Strategy & VP Strategy, Value Based Care
spisipaty@healthrecoverysolutions.com
Spouse/Guest: Pooja Pokharna. • I’d like to share: With the 2025 updates to HHVBP, emphasizing patient engagement, data-driven decision making, and outcomes based care, tools like RPM are vital in achieving claims and HHCAHPSbased targets. • I’d like to learn: What levers are the most important to Executive teams as they seek to justify technology investments to their stakeholders? What key metrics or success stories have driven enterprise-wide scale? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is deeply personal. Clients are often vulnerable, and showing genuine compassion builds trust and strengthens relationships. Listen actively and communicate often . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Beach days, and hours of pickup basketball on end, finished with a treat from the ice cream truck
Partner Health Recovery Solutions (HRS)
Hoboken, NJ healthrecoverysolutions.com
Rich Curry VP Business Development
rcurry@healthrecoverysolutions.com
Spouse/Guest: Yvette Lamela. • I’d like to share: This marks the 11th consecutive year HRS has attended the Home Care 100 Conference. I have met so many wonderful people here and am always grateful to attend and work with caring and dedicated leaders. • I’d like to learn: With home health providers adjusting operations to better set themselves up for value-based care, how have agencies looked at tying in clinician compensation to value with technology. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Patient care comes first, always. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Just playing with my friends. I was very lucky to be a Gen-X kid with a good crew.
Help At Home
Chicago, IL
helpathome.com
Help At Home is the largest PCS and care coordination provider in the USA, serving all 50 states
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 70,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $2B
States Operating In: All 50
Tim O’Rourke President
torourke@helpathome.com
Rich Tinsley Chief Development Officer
rtinsley@helpathome.com
I’d like to share: It is a very exciting time to be part of the home care industry as payers recognize the long-term and short-term benefits of our services . • I’d like to learn: About what other PCS providers doing to bring healthcare into the home • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Keep learning always.
Darren Lehrich SVP Investor Relations & Finance
dlehrich@helpathome.com
I’d like to share: I’m passionate about Help at Home’s leadership in the home care industry. • I’d like to learn: How are you impacting better care in the home? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Our clients are someone else’s family members and deserve the best care. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my bike with friends
Provider Help At Home
Chicago, IL helpathome.com
Matthew Turner VP Corporate Development
mnturner@helpathome.com
I’d like to share: Looking forward to connecting! • I’d like to learn: Perspectives on M&A outlook for 2024 and beyond. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be curious—there’s always more to learn. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing roller hockey until the sun went down
Anne Williams VP Business Development
awilliams79@helpathome.com
I’d like to share: This is my first time at Home Care 100. • I’d like to learn: The 2025 updates in the home care industry. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on building strong relationships, prioritize quality care, and stay adaptable to meet the evolving needs of clients and the home care industry. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the beach or in the mountains.
HHAeXchange
New York, NY hhaexchange.com
HHAeXchange is the leading technology platform for home care and self-direction program management. Developed specifically for the Medicaid patient population, HHAeXchange connects state agencies, managed care payers, providers, and caregivers through its intuitive web-based platform, enabling unparalleled communication, transparency, efficiency, and compliance.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We are passionate about helping people who are aging or have disabilities thrive in their homes and communities through the creation of a homecare ecosystem that seamlessly connects states, MCOs, providers, caregivers, and patients.
Category: Technology Solutions & Services
Who We Serve: Home Health, Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 500 @HHAeXchange
Stephen Vaccaro President
svaccaro@hhaexchange.com
Spouse/Guest: Athena. • I’d like to share: The rate of change in our industry is speeding up so please ensure you maintain focus on core priorities . • I’d like to learn: What challenges are you experiencing? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Most critical is the consumer and caregiver, never lose sight of that. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Running around on the ballfield catching fly balls.
Highmark Health
Pittsburgh, PA
highmarkhealth.org
Highmark Health’s businesses include the Highmark Health Plan, one of America’s largest Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers; a growing regional hospital and physician network; and leading companies that offer dental solutions, reinsurance solutions, population health management, and innovative, technology solutions.
Mona Siddiqui, MD
SVP Home & Community Services
mona.siddiqui@highmarkhealth.org
Hillendale Home Care
Walnut Creek, CA hillendalehomecare.com
Hillendale Home Care provides in-home care, supporting seniors with daily needs. Since 2022, we’ve grown from $4M to $18M, targeting $35-$40M in 2025, with 350 employees. Our core focus is manager training, incentives, and exceptional support for caregivers in the home. We focus on caregiver satisfaction to deliver outstanding care and drive better outcomes
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $40MM
States Operating In: CA
Jesse Walters President & CEO
jesse@hillendale.net
I’d like to share: For over two decades, I’ve been obsessed with every aspect of home care, focusing on improving manager and caregiver experiences to drive better outcomes and elevate the quality of care we deliver. • I’d like to learn: Strategies others are using to stay ahead in a highly competitive and evolving industry, including preparing for the future of home care with advancements in AI and personalized care solutions. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is like a sport: practice daily, learn from losses, and savor fleeting wins before diving back in. Success comes from consistency, resilience, and passion. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I grew up in picturesque Boise, Idaho, spending summers biking the foothills or swimming in the downtown river—a simple, pure way to enjoy childhood adventures
Home Assist Health
Phoenix, AZ homeassisthealth.org
Home Assist Health is a non-profit organization that helps individuals in our community live a selfdetermined lifestyle in the comfort of their own home. We are thinking about home care differently and delivering personalized services for those who wish to age gracefully at home
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Sara Wilson CEO
swilson@homeassisthealth.org
Home Care 100
Southport, CT
homecare100.com
Home Care 100 is a community of 100 leading providers from across the country all centered on a mission of improving how home-based care is delivered, especially in the areas of leadership, strategy and innovation. Through two annual conferences and our Intelligence Group, a futurefocused executive advisory group, we not only clarify the future but ensure you get there successfully
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We are re-launching our Intelligence Group offerings to better accelerate your strategic initiatives. Contact us to learn more about how to take your organization farther with strategic guidance and peer insights you won’t find anywhere else: homecare100.com/365. And save the date for our summer gathering–June 1-4 at the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort!
Jeanette Lynn Managing Director & President, Lincoln Healthcare Leadership
jlynn@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: We can help you shape your future and build the capabilities to realize that vision through our Home Care 100 events and the Intelligence Group as the platform for sharing thought leadership. • I’d like to learn: What barriers stand in the way of you going further faster? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: There is complexity at every angle, from the needs of the patients, regulations, multiple stakeholders, and varying payer sources. Your job as CEO is to make it simple! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Building forts, riding go-karts, and cooling off at the beach. My favorite day still is one spent on the water!
Tim Bateman Managing Director
tbateman@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: The Lincoln Intelligence Group team is happy to compare notes on any topic of impact to your business . • I’d like to learn: Which issues or practices would you like Lincoln Intelligence Group to be researching? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build your network—this is a very collaborative community. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Exploring local trails and woods with my neighbors.
Home Care 100
Southport, CT
homecare100.com
Michelle Dodd Associate Managing Director
mdodd@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: I extend my heartfelt gratitude to everyone in the Home Care 100 community, especially to the trailblazers who generously share their stories, inspiring us all and driving the industry forward. • I’d like to learn: Progress on strategic initiatives to build clinical capacity – what’s working and what’s not? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Say “yes” as often as possible to new opportunities that come your way. You never know what you’ll learn and where those experiences could lead! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swimming and diving—all day every day, whether it was in a pool, a lake or the ocean!
Jennifer Stewart Associate Managing Director
jstewart@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: Today’s healthcare landscape is guaranteed to look different tomorrow. Leaning on the right partners, tech, peers, and innovations will be instrumental in continuing to set the HBC industry apart . • I’d like to learn: What books have inspired you in your professional life? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Keep your “why” at the center of what you do–and lean into this community. They are unique and incredibly supportive . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: In the water–either at the ocean with my grandparents, the neighborhood pool with my friends, or the lake with my family. There was always fun, laughter, and quality time.
Michael Morrissey SVP Partnerships
mmorrissey@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: Home Care 100 is proudly celebrating our 23rd anniversary. Thanks to our valued providers, partners, and associations for your continued support over the years! We hope to see you in June as well! • I’d like to learn: What are the biggest challenges providers are currently facing and how can our solution partners help solve them? Are there any new innovative partners you would like to see at future events? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Take advantage of the knowledge and resources that are readily available from the many seasoned professionals who have devoted their careers to the home care industry. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Going to Red Sox games at Fenway Park with my father. I am now creating those same memories for my son and daughter
Home Care 100
Southport, CT homecare100.com
Peter Bresler
Executive Advisor, Intelligence Group
pbresler@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: My appreciation for all the hard work done by everyone in the industry. I’ve been helping my father through his journey and I have a deep personal connection to the challenges (and opportunities!). • I’d like to learn: Creative ways to make the economics of home care work in a highly dynamic, often challenging environment. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Every day recognize you are making an important contribution to the well being of individuals and their families • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my bike in the neighborhood, playing some kind of sport, and ending the day with a sweet treat.
Jackie Carlino
Spouse Program Director
jcarlino@lincolnhc.com
My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I grew up across the street from a farm and loved spending my summer days riding horses bareback, picking vegetables, running after the cows, and working the farm stand
Kaylee Colon Speaker Liaison
kcolon@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: We put a lot of thought, care and intention into the production of the conference. We hope you get the most out of each education session and have many key takeaways to take back to your company. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: When I was a kid, it was impossible for my parents to get me out of the water in the summer. Whether it was a beach, waterpark, or pool, I was always happiest in the water.
Home Care 100
Southport, CT homecare100.com
Betsy Hansen
Senior Advisor, Intelligence Group
bhansen@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: Our Intelligence Group can be a partner to support your teams year-round. I’d love to share more about our research, findings, and what technology trends we’re seeing heading into 2025 . • I’d like to learn: How providers are future-proofing their organizations and leveraging new models and solutions (technology or otherwise) to get there . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: It’s an exciting time in the industry and it’s ripe with opportunity. Understand the changing demographics. Lean into innovation. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the pool! Barefoot, swimsuit, and popsicles in hand.
Maria Marschke
Senior Director, Event Operations
mmarschke@lincolnhc.com
My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always ask questions. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Barbeques and playing “kick the can” with my neighbors.
Ariana Klitzner
Independent Advisor, Intelligence Group
aklitzner@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: I am looking forward to connecting with and meeting everyone at the conference. Can’t wait to say hi! • I’d like to learn: How are folks innovating the hospital/home care relationship, as well as talking about novel workforce programs and approaches? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: This is a great community and would encourage folks not to hesitate reach out, share, and learn across the network. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Eating ice cream!
Home Care 100
Southport, CT
homecare100.com
Lesley Odoom
Senior Director, Client Success, Intelligence Group
lodoom@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: Enjoy these three days and soak in all the content and sunshine. And when you leave, engage in the Intelligence Group and continue to benefit yearround from the Lincoln teams’ research and insights. • I’d like to learn: What’s important to you? I’d like to better understand the key challenges you’re focused on so we can best connect you with the right advisory insights, briefings and peer connections . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn from your peers. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Getting on my bicycle right after breakfast and riding and playing in my neighborhood until my mother would call me in for lunch and then back out again until dinner.
Amy Rafael VP Marketing
arafael@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to learn: What are the most impactful and meaningful ways you’ve been able to embrace innovation within your organization? • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Outdoors on my bike or climbing a tree!
Brian Zavoluk
Business Development Director
bzavoluk@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: Thank you to all of our outstanding providers and partners for continuing to make Home Care 100 such an amazing event! • I’d like to learn: How can Home Care 100 continue to elevate our partner/provider experience on-site? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Empathy goes a long way! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the park playing basketball—sun-up to sun-down!
Advisory
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group Advisors
Southport, CT lighomecare.com
Hank Ross
Founder of Physician Housecalls, one of the largest housecalls companies, Hank Ross Ross brings extensive experience with value-based initiatives–including REACH High Needs ACO models and home-based primary–care to our Intelligence Group. He participates on ACO boards and is the point person for the Academy REACH HN ACO dedicated to housecall providers. Previously, Ross founded and served as CEO to Ross Home Care in Oklahoma, spent 14 years in hospital leadership, and was a member of the Oklahoma National Guard.
Jennifer Sheets
With nearly 25 years of experience in healthcare management across the home health, outpatient, and hospital settings and M&A, Jennifer Sheets is an esteemed leader in the healthcare industry with an impressive and diverse career trajectory. As President and CEO of Caring Brands International and Interim HealthCare Inc., Sheets orchestrated a turnaround from a four-year decline to consistent record growth, and expanding the organization in several international markets, culminating in a successful organization sale in 2022. Her career also includes roles at BAYADA Home Health Care, Gentiva Healthcare, and Highland Capital/Cornerstone Healthcare Group. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing/Math, a Master of Science in Nursing, and a Master of Business Administration
Home Care & Hospice Association of NJ
Cranford, NJ homecarenj.org
The Association provides our members with up-to-date information and ongoing support. We advocate on both the state and federal level, provide pertinent educational offerings, industry breaking news, networking events, along with staff assistance
New Initiatives or Future Plans
The Association recently created a Home Care Legislative Caucus which allows the members of the NJ legislature to engage with home care providers on a more regular basis and allows issues of importance to providers to be heard more frequently
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 3
Nancy Fitterer President & CEO
nancy@homecarenj.org
I’d like to share: That joining a State Association allows you to receive a wealth of knowledge that can help you grow your business. You can also lend your voice to advocacy efforts currently underway. • I’d like to learn: How best would you like to interact with your state association? What is the most important thing you need from them. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Ask a lot of questions. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Reading at the beach
Home Care Hands
Springfield, MA homecarehands24.com
HomeCare Hands is a leading home care agency—known for quality and reliability—providing personalized care, skilled nursing, dementia support, and an excellent education division, training caregivers and healthcare professionals. Growth plans include market expansion, enhanced telehealth and strong educational partnerships
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 65
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $42MM
States Operating In: CT, FL, MA, VT
Sina Holloman CEO sina@homecarehands24.com
I’d like to share: Success in home care thrives on empathy, communication, and compassion. Building trust with clients and their Families creates better outcomes, meaningful connections and heartfelt bonds. :) • I’d like to learn: What innovative strategies and/or tools have some found most effective in improving patient outcomes/care and team efficiency in home care settings? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on compassion, communication and reliability. Build trust with clients, listen to their needs and maintain a positive attitude. Stay patient and adaptable to challenges.
Home Helpers Home Care
Blue Ash, OH
homehelpershomecare.com
With 23 years of experience, Home Helpers Home Care provides an innovative and comprehensive approach to the total in-home care of our clients. We utilize a combination of staffed in-home care and state of the art technology to create care plans that serve the needs of clients and their families. We continue to advance our strategy with a spirit of innovation to grow
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
States Operating In: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Emma Dickison CEO & President
e.dickison@homehelpershomecare.com
Home Instead/Honor
Omaha, NE homeinstead.com
Home Instead is a global network of independently owned and operated franchises specializing in personalized in-home care for seniors. We’ve expanded to over 1,200 locations worldwide, serving more than 100,000 clients and families. Home Instead emphasizes compassionate, individualized care, ensuring that each client’s unique needs are met with professionalism and empathy
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $3B
States Operating In: All 50, Canada
Leonard (Linn) Free
SVP Operations & Franchise Development
linn.free@joinhonor.com
I’d like to share: Home Instead drives innovation in person-centered care and empowers caregivers with resources and technology, enhancing seniors’ quality of life and emotional support needed to thrive. • I’d like to learn: The biggest challenges home care providers face today, from caregiver recruitment to adapting new technologies, and how leaders are successfully navigating these issues . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be adaptable and open to learning. The industry is always evolving with new challenges and technologies, stay curious, seek mentorship, and never lose sight of the impact. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: My most cherished memories are traveling with my family
Home Matters Caregiving
Beaverton, OR homematters.com
Home Matters Caregiving is a nurse-guided agency that leverages technology and innovations to improve care outcomes.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 1,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $45MM
States Operating In: AZ, CA, CT, FL, GA, KY, NJ, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX
Clayton Foutch Founder
clayton.foutch@homematters.com
I’d like to share: We are a nurse-guided in-home care organization that is focused on leveraging technology and innovative ways to better serve our caregiving team, clients, families, and referral resources. • I’d like to learn: What other organizations like ours are doing to better serve our communities . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Understand your why, learn how to lead with this for every communication in your community
Homecare Homebase
Dallas, TX hchb.com
Homecare Homebase provides the industry’s leading software for home-based care. We’re paving the way for both large and small home health and hospice agencies to drive consistent growth and sustained profitability nationwide. Our software streamlines every aspect of your business by improving communications, compliance, and productivity to truly empowering exceptional care.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Homecare Homebase is debuting many new patient engagement tools such as patient text reminders and clinician ETA notifications. Many time savings features are being enabled such as using AI for documenting. Talk to us in Marco about all of these!
Category: Enterprise Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 700
@HCHBInfo
Luke Rutledge President
lukerutledge@hchb.com
I’d like to share: Roadmap, new software launches, and collaborate on new opportunities. • I’d like to learn: Where your business is strategically focused and how we can best serve you. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Technology and hiring top talent are the keys to unlocking your full potential .
Brandy Sparkman-Beierle Chief Clinical Officer
bsbeierle@hchb.com
I’d like to share: HCHB celebrates a milestone with more clinicians involved; their insights guide our product decisions, shaping a brighter, more efficient future—one conversation, one improvement at a time. • I’d like to learn: In the ever-changing regulatory landscape, how do they strike the perfect balance between staying true to their mission and meeting profit goals? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: In home care, it’s about one patient, one visit at a time—delivering care with precision, purpose, and heart . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Spending time at the lake with friends and family, enjoying all kinds of water activities
Homecare Homebase
Dallas, TX hchb.com
Daniel Wacker CAO
dwacker@hchb.com
Hannah Pearson SVP Marketing & Revenue Operations
hpearson@hchb.com
I’d like to share: Our vision for the future of home-based care. It’s a future where efficiency meets empathy, where technology supports—not replaces—the human touch, and where agencies thrive. • I’d like to learn: What’s working, where you’re struggling, and what’s on the horizon. Insights into what drives success—and what stands in the way—are invaluable as we refine and innovate our solutions to better meet needs. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is a deeply personal industry, built on trust and compassion that not only impacts health, but also quality of life and sense of dignity. Lean in–it’s special. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the lake. Always the lake
Andy Kaboff VP
akaboff@hchb.com
Matt McCarthy VP Sales
mmccarthy@hchb.com
Homewatch CareGivers/Authority Brands
Greenwood Village, CO
homewatchcaregivers.com
Homewatch CareGivers is a leading provider of in-home care services, dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for clients of all ages.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 14,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $310MM
States Operating In: All 50
Todd Houghton President
thoughton@homewatch-intl.com
I’d like to share: Thought leadership on the evolution of delivery of care in a home setting. The importance of technologies in the home . • I’d like to learn: How are you evolving the delivery of care in the home setting? How are referral relationships changing as hospitals and providers want to move more care to the home? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build Strong Communication Skills: Effective communication with your clients and their families is crucial. Listen actively, be patient, and ensure you understand their needs
Curtis Wiederin VP Growth & Program Delivery
cwiederin@homewatch-intl.com
I’d like to share: We are revolutionizing the landscape of home care through our commitment to personalized care tailored to each individual’s needs, rather than a generic, one-size-fits-all approach. • I’d like to learn: What companies’ are doing from a technology standpoint. What companies are seeing with payer sources • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Remember why you entered the industry in the first place. What is your why? • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Lifeguarding and teaching others how to swim.
HopeHealth
Providence, RI hopehealthco.org
HopeHealth is the second oldest hospice in the nation and is the major teaching affiliate for hospice and palliative care for the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. HopeHealth offers comprehensive medical, emotional, and spiritual support to all individuals facing serious illness
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 800
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $92MM
States Operating In: MA, RI
Diana Franchitto President & CEO
dfranchitto@hopehealthco.org
I’d like to share: Palliative care continuum. • I’d like to learn: Expansion of the palliative care continuum. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn as much about the business as you can from regulatory to reimbursement to quality of care. That will provide a wonderful foundation as you migrate into strategy.
Hospice Dynamix
Collierville, TN hospicedynamix.com
Hospice Dynamix is a predictive analytics software that designates a highly accurate predictive length of stay (PLOS) upon admission and updates dynamically in real-time based on patient record documentation. This data is delivered through an intuitive, compliance-focused dashboard, providing actionable insights to effectively identify opportunities and mitigate risks
New Initiatives or Future Plans
To utilize our proprietary technology across the post-acute continuum, empowering organizations to enhance operational efficiency and ensure patients receive the right care at the right time
Category: Predictive Analytics
# Employees: 15
Drew Bringhurst CCO
drew@hospicedynamix.com
I’d like to share: We are former hospice owners who have developed the first decision intelligence software that designates a predictive length of stay for every patient upon admission throughout their time on service . • I’d like to learn: Areas to optimize AI and machine learning predictive analytics throughout hospice organizations. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on empathy, clear communication, and patience. Learn regulations and best practices to provide high-quality care. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Leaving home in the morning, roaming the neighborhood playing sports, returning when I heard my mom’s whistle calling me for dinner.
Rob Stoltz Chief Strategy Officer
rstoltz@hospicedynamix.com
I’d like to share: I am interested in discussing how we can change end of life so more palliative and hospice patients can benefit from this AI-driven technology to receive the gift of hospice at the right time. • I’d like to learn: How hospices are addressing the challenges of palliative care programs losing money and the barrage of audits being faced by hospice providers. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Stay current with industry changes as to embrace changes in advance of the regulatory requirements rather than being late to the game. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Hanging out with two to three friends playing tennis, basketball, fishing and whatever else we found to do. It was having no obligations and the freedom to do whatever that was so fun
Hospice of the Valley
Phoenix, AZ hov.org
For 47 years, not-for-profit Hospice of the Valley has served all in need, bringing comfort, dignity, and compassionate care to our community. We cared for 27,000 patients and their families last year, providing home-based primary care, palliative and hospice services, plus comprehensive dementia support in the home and at our innovative Dementia Care and Education Campus
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 6,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $208MM
States Operating In: AZ
Debbie Shumway Executive Director & CEO
dshumway@hov.org
HospiceMD
West Covina, CA hospicemd.com
HospiceMD, Inc. has been offering advanced and intelligent EHR solutions for post-acute care providers since 2010. We offer the right-mix of user-friendliness, compliance, and quality alerts, which has led to our offerings being the top-choice of clinicians and administrators. With over 3,000 customers nationwide, HospiceMD, Inc. continues to expand its full-range services
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Planned for release by second quarter of 2025: AI Notes – conversational and narrative based note generation to improve clinical accuracy and charting time; Remote Patient Monitoring –within patient portal and real-time alerts to triage staff
Category: Enterprise Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 130
Emmanuel Azariah COO
ea@hospicemd.com
Solomon Charles Chief Technology Officer
scharles@hospicemd.com
Daniel Kim Director, Sales
dkim@hospicemd.com
HospiceMD
West Covina, CA hospicemd.com
Anita Shad Director, Product Marketing
ashad@hospicemd.com
I’d like to share: Home Care’s future lies in innovation and collaboration. Excited to connect and share insights! • I’d like to learn: How other leading organizations are leveraging innovation and partnerships to improve patient outcomes, and scaling sustainable growth in a competitive market . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build strong relationships—with clients, caregivers, and partners. Empathy, clear communication, and continuous learning to provide exceptional care is key to success • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Exploring the outdoors with friends, immersing in nature, and learning from its beauty and lessons, appreciating the world around us .
Houlihan Lokey
Los Angeles, CA hl.com
Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation, and strategic consulting. The firm serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Houlihan Lokey’s Healthcare team consists of 100+ dedicated industry investment bankers across the Firm’s New York, Chicago, Dallas, Charlotte, San Francisco, Miami, London, Munich, Zurich, and Sydney offices
Category: Finance – M&A
Who We Serve: Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 200
@houlihanlokey
Matt Ryan Managing Director
mryan@hl.com
Brandon Breslow SVP
brandon.breslow@hl.com
I’d like to share: Our team at Houlihan is passionate about working with industryleading home care companies, and we’re excited to meet leading HC executives heading into 2024. • I’d like to learn: Outlook for 2025, and how industry executives are thinking about growth opportunities heading into the new year, as well as headwinds facing the industry.
HouseWorks
Woburn, MA house-works.com
At HouseWorks, we’re passionate about helping older adults and their families find the care they need to thrive wherever they call home. For over 20 years, we’ve been a trusted partner providing personalized, dependable in-home care that makes a difference
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 25,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $500MM
States Operating In: CT, ME, MA, NH, NY, PA
Michael Trigilio CEO
mtrigilio@house-works.com
Spouse/Guest: Heather.
Justin
Carr Chief of Staff
jcarr@house-works.com
Sharon Dones Chief People Officer
sdones@house-works.com
jon.fradin@house-works.com
Humana
Louisville, KY humana.com
As one of the nation’s largest home health providers, we have over 50 years of experience helping millions of patients take control of their health in the comfort of their homes. Our teams of nurses and therapists help patients rehabilitate, recover and regain their independence so they can live healthier and happier lives
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 80,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $1.7B
States Operating In: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NE, NV, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI
Kirk Allen
Segment President, Home Solutions
kirk.allen@humana.com
I’d like to share: Looking forward to meeting with other leaders in the home care space! • I’d like to learn: How AI and automation are shaping the homecare industry. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be curious, be flexible. Learn from those who have experience but don’t let it limit your thinking . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Spending time with my cousins at my grandparents’ cattle farm
IDEAL for Healthcare
Tampa, FL
ideal4healthcare.com
IDEAL for Healthcare is a dynamic community designed to unite individuals and create a supportive environment where growth opportunities flourish. With a mission to elevate organizations and empower individuals within the healthcare industry, IDEAL fosters meaningful connections and encourages collaboration. The community’s evolving nature reflects its ambitious goals, balanced by a renewed, realistic vision for making a tangible difference in the lives of its members and the organizations they serve
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice # Employees: 13
Kristen Duell Founder
kduell@ideal4healthcare.com
I’d like to share: I will never forget the feeling of entering a patient’s home for the first time; it shaped my perspective on how we can enhance the experience of all the lives we touch. • I’d like to learn: How are you leveraging rule-based or data-driven AI systems? Have you started using ML on your consumer data? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Give grace, judge quietly, build relationships, and help at least one person selflessly every day, and you will go far. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Roaming the neighborhood until my parents yelled for us to come home every evening
Infinity Hospice Care
Scottsdale, AZ infinityhospicecare.com
Infinity Hospice Care provides hospice care in the Southwest. Additionally, IHC manages physician practices providing palliative care in the hospitals, and house call physician services. IHC was the preferred hospice provider partnering with a High Needs REACH ACO that saved over 20% in an at risk, value-based care model
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 420
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $35MM
States Operating In: AZ, NV
Darren Bertram CEO
dbertram@infinityhospicecare.com
I’d like to share: Hospices can increase revenue and patient volume working with a High Needs REACH ACO. • I’d like to learn: How hospice providers are dealing with the significant increase in audits. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Attend every cocktail mixer • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I am Gen X, so I did what all my generation did: ran around completely unsupervised and drank from a garden hose.
IntellaTriage
Brentwood, TN intellatriage.com
IntellaTriage is the nation’s top provider of after-hours nurse triage services. We offer our services 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Our approach is purposefully unique: we believe that your patients should speak to a licensed nurse with expertise in your specific field ensuring that your patients receive the highest quality of care at any time - day or night
New Initiatives or Future Plans
A patient engagement service to directly connect high-risk patients with our best-in-class nursing team—driving improved outcomes and financial performance for our partners. No robo texts and calls, just real nurses connecting with patients
Category: Triage Technology
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Care
# Employees: 350
@IntellaTriage
Daniel Reese CEO dreese@intellatriage.com
I’d like to share: Save money, improve patient care, and recruit better nurses by evaluating your triage function with IntellaTriage. • I’d like to learn: What do we take for granted today in home care that will be outdated or irrelevant in five years? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Dive deep into understanding the core aspects of delivering high-quality care— it will pay dividends no matter what you end up doing in post-acute.
Gio Pagano SVP Sales
gpagano@intellatriage.com
I’d like to share: Afterhours should never be an afterthought. IntellaTriage can provide nurses with expertise and insights to transform after-hours care delivery into a program strength and differentiator. • I’d like to learn: Strategies and tools agencies are implementing for positive HHVBP and HOPE outcomes . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: It is one of the most rewarding and purposeful sectors in healthcare. Cherish the journey and reflect daily on your impact on people’s lives . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Pickup baseball games in the morning—ghost man baserunners! Gokarting, swimming, and playing football in the backyard with my neighbor and his dad until dark.
IntellaTriage
Brentwood, TN intellatriage.com
Brad Hall VP Enterprise Sales
bhall@intellatriage.com
I’d like to share: As always, looking forward to meeting with and learning from industry leaders and sharing innovative models for after-hours triage. • I’d like to learn: Strategic initiatives agencies are focusing on in 2025 to embrace staffing challenges and care quality. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Embrace the welcoming, tight-knit community of providers, vendors, legislators and associations . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At St. Augustine beach on a surfboard or playing baseball
Provider
Interim HealthCare
Sunrise, FL
interimhealthcare.com
We provide a full continuum of care through company-owned operations and a robust franchise network comprising over 125 owners. We operate over 300 locations across the US in home health, hospice, personal care, and medical staffing. In addition, we operate in the UK, Ireland, and Australia providing predominately personal care services
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 190,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $1.6B
States Operating In: All 50
Rexanne Domico
President & COO
rdomico@interimhealthcare.com
I’d like to share: No matter how tough things become for the industry, thousands of people and their families are depending on us to keep them home. • I’d like to learn: Various ways people are using more efficient work models to reduce overall costs in their organization. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn all you can and be open to new ways of doing things. Your clinical delivery and your employees are everything. Get that right and the rest will follow. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing with and feeding the animals on the farm.
Interim HealthCare of the Upstate
Greenville, SC
upstatesc.interimhealthcare.com
Interim Healthcare (Upstate SC, Midlands SC, and Atlanta, GA) is a faith-based organization that offers skilled home health, hospice, and personal care. Our strongest features are the deep history and strong culture. Our motivated leaders are driven to create outcomes for everyone involved
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 2,800
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $87MM
States Operating In: GA, SC
Beth Landry CEO
blandry@interimcares.com
Spouse/Guest: Thomas. • I’d like to share: Passion for our industry. • I’d like to learn: Strategies for value-based care, ACOs, and managed Medicare. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn the reimbursement dynamics. Fight for relevance in the huge bubble of healthcare so that more people can benefit from great care at home. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the lake with family and generations of friends. Skiing, BBQs, and lively card games will forever be great memories
David Maiorana CFO
david.maiorana@interimcares.com
KanTime
Plano, TX kantime.com
KanTime is the leading EMR for post-acute longitudinal care, serving all lines of business under one unified platform. KanTime software maximizes efficiency, so you can focus on delivering quality patient care
New Initiatives or Future Plans
KanTime continues to expand into post acute care settings while creating new products that improve organizational efficiency and provide analytical insights
Category: Enterprise Software
# Employees: 450
@KanTimeSoftware
Sundar Kannan CEO & President
sundar@kanrad.com
I’d like to share: Automated scheduling, centralized care operations, AI-assisted documentation, and coding are just a few of the enhanced functionalities that you can experience with KanTime. • I’d like to learn: Where do you see the most inefficiencies within your organization and how do you combat those challenges today? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Ensure that you have a true passion for providing compassionate and quality care as that will help you build a great culture within your organization. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Growing up in southern India, where summer days often exceeded 100 degrees, I cherished the refreshing taste of tender coconut water after a lively game of badminton
Satheesh Nair
CTO & EVP Engineering
satheesh@kantime.com
I’d like to share: Importance of realtime, actionable insights in value-based care and how technology can improve provider performance through timely insights, both predictive and after the fact. • I’d like to learn: How to better leverage data interoperability to improve care coordination across post-acute spectrum and realtime use cases for seamless data flows enabling better outcomes and regulatory compliance
• My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on leveraging technology to streamline operations and enhance care quality from the outset, which would greatly augment their core competency of delivering quality care
Plano, TX kantime.com
Lucy Lopez SVP Product Management llopez@kantime.com
I’d like to share: How KanTime is setting the Gold Standard in EMR Technology for the post-acute industry. • I’d like to learn: The initiatives your company is focused on currently and how you plan on achieving those goals in the next 18 months. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Change is good, go with it, seek it, make it part of your culture. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Barefoot in grass, sand, or the ocean!
Heather Scruggs SVP Sales
heather@kantime.com
I’d like to share: Leveraging intelligence at the edge has many advantages to software applications including reduced latency, cost efficiency, improved security, scalability, resilience, and bandwidth optimization . • I’d like to learn: In what ways can the synergy between AI and cutting-edge technology help us advance by providing automation, data analysis, user experience, and groundbreaking innovations to the healthcare industry? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: The most important piece of advice I would give to someone is to maintain a good work life balance. Find a compliant and efficient EMR, so you to leave your job at work! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Exploring the outdoors with friends, riding bikes, swimming, water skiing, and ending the day catching fireflies.
Jil Schexnayder Director, Marketing & Events
jil@kantime.com
I’d like to share: Leadership and culture, at their core, are about making people better as a result of your presence and making sure it lasts in your absence . • I’d like to learn: How you motivate your team and increase company culture. What has worked and what has not? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: The details matter! Don’t focus only on recruitment; concentrate on retention! Reward your core team; they are your cheerleaders! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: As a “civil service brat,” I spent many summers moving all over the world. Each move was a new adventure for me, filled with new friends, fun, and unforgettable memories
KATANA Safety
Greenville, SC katanasafety.com
Katana Safety is the country’s premier provider of Lone and Workforce Safety Solutions for the home care industry, utilizing personal safety technology that leverages the accessibility of a smartphone using a patented quick-trigger device to call for help. Katana Safety keeps workers safer, increases worker retention, improves patient care, and enhances profitability
New Initiatives or Future Plans
KATANA Safety is always working on improving the solutions they provide to the home care industry
Category: Workforce Safety & Security
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 10 @katanasafety
Sam Stout VP sam@katanasafety.com
I’d like to share: My optimism and positive attitude! I’m here to learn from the best of the best, but also want to share my best asset in how to approach the day • I’d like to learn: Different perspectives of what is most important in patient care and employee empathy. Making your employees and customers happy will inevitably generate fulfillment within yourself . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Keep an open mind and consider the experience through the patient lens...I am brand new so hope to collect more advice this weekend! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Gathering all of our friends for backyard sports,, cool down in the nearest pool, sneak in a fourth meal at a friends house before the street lights came on
Kerry Care
Porter Ranch, CA kerry.care
Kerry is an AI-powered virtual caregiving assistant that automates and coordinates tasks for clients, families, and caregivers. Using its proprietary Kerry Care Graph, it optimizes care plans by identifying the ideal resource, assigning duties, and tracking outcomes for both in-person and virtual tasks
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Achieve deeper integration with all service providers, enabling a unified view of patient needs and advancing automated, end-to-end care plan management
Who We Serve: Home Health, Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 7
Nizar Allibhoy CEO & Co-Founder
nizar@kerrycare.com
I’d like to share: My passion for caregiving developed while caring for my parents. The most important lesson I took away from that is that caregiving is a team sport, with a constantly changing group of teammates. • I’d like to learn: As a newcomer to the home care industry, I would like to learn how best to leverage technology to serve the interests of all the stakeholders in delivering the best home care service and experience. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Identify and connect with exceptional mentors in the industry. The past informs the present and guides the future of an endeavor that is ultimately personal and deeply human
TheKey
Boca Raton, FL thekey.com
TheKey is the largest private pay home care provider in North America with operations in the US, Canada, and Australia.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 7,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $600MM
States Operating In: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, KS, MD, MA, MI, MN, NE, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, Canada, Australia
Chris Gerard CEO
chris.gerard@thekey.com
Spouse/Guest: Michelle.
Derek Gordon COO
derek.gordon@thekey.com
Paul Kahn CFO
paul.kahn@thekey.com
Spouse/Guest: Jamie. • I’d like to share: TheKey is well positioned in the space after significant growth over the past few years and is eager partner with the right companies given this scale. • I’d like to learn: How companies are managing their business in the current economic environment and what strategies are working and not working to deliver organic growth. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Stay focused on the mission
Keynote Speaker, Author
Gulfport, FL heathermcgowan.com
Heather McGowan
Keynote Speaker, Author
heather@heathermcgowan.com
I’d like to share: My experiences both as a consumer and researcher of aging and caring for aging family members. • I’d like to learn: Perspectives on my experiences. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Understand your goals, the trajectory of your loved ones likely path, and how services might aid you in the journey. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swimming. Sailing. Biking.
Kno2
Boise, ID kno2.com
Kno2, the nation’s largest healthcare communication network, connects over 4,800 health systems, 2.8M providers, and 120,000 post-acute organizations. As a full-stack healthcare communication infrastructure, Kno2 provides interoperability and connectivity to national networks, including TEFCA, and advocates for home health, hospice, palliative, and home care providers
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Kno2 is transforming home health through integrations to our full-stack healthcare communication infrastructure, including QHIN, driving efficiencies, improving care coordination, and connecting providers to the national frameworks, including TEFCA
Category: Document Management
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Care
# Employees: 45 @Kno2
Therasa Bell
Co-Founder, President & CTO
tbell@kno2.com
I’d like to share: The only way the US healthcare system survives is by every provider being connected to a QHIN. The market forces demand information be shared at scale and at the point of care. • I’d like to learn: How you are tackling your most difficult challenges as an operator. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Think about home care delivery differently from the start. Disrupt and innovate right off the starting block. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Gymnastics, artwork, and reading
Peter Schoch, PhD Chief Health Officer
pschoch@kno2.com
I’d like to share: Healthcare communication. Interoperability is foundational for solving the biggest problems in the home care space and supporting innovative care models including value-based care models . • I’d like to learn: How you are solving the challenges you face such as provider shortages, workflows, administrative burden, decreased reimbursement, and the transition to value-based care! • My advice for someone starting out in home care: As a physician, I encourage you to look at the value of clinical information at the point of care for treatment, improving outcomes, and workflows such as TOC and referrals. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: In Oil City, Pennsylvania, with my grandparents playing in the streets, wading in the creek, spotting deer at night, and going for ice cream
LeadingAge California
Sacramento, CA leadingageca.org
LeadingAge CA is the state’s leading advocate for mission-driven housing, care and services for older adults. >800 members=providers of affordable senior housing, assisted living, life plan communities, skilled nursing care, HCBS, home health, hospice, and PACE. Our premier workforce initiative The Gateway-In Project has trained >4500 HHAs, CNAs and HCSWs with >$35M state grants
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We are very excited by the launch of our bold initiative with IDEO, the global human-centered design firm, to re-imagine services for older adults. We are partnering with eight provider members, a consumer, UC Berkeley CITRIS Health and Amazon
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 42
Jeannee Parkin Martin
President & CEO
jpmartin@leadingageca.org
I’d like to share: How the integration of AI across the continuum of care delivery will improve efficiencies, off-set workforce shortages, and improve organizational outcomes. • I’d like to learn: How companies are integrating AI into clinical practice to gain efficiencies, off-set workforce shortages, and improve patient outcomes. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Identify strong mentors to help you navigate the field and network with providers across teh continuum . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swimming
Legacy Hospice Operating Company
Daphne, AL
legacyhospice.net
Legacy Hospice Operating Company is purely hospice-focused, has a staff that is focused on compliance and quality patient care, and expects to be over 1,250 ADC by year’s end.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 1,150
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $70MM
States Operating In: AL, AR, MS, MO, TN
Clark Blair CEO
clark.blair@legacyhospice.net
Spouse/Guest: Cameron. • I’d like to share: Compliance and quality of care is of the upmost importance in what we do. We don’t get second chances in our business so we must get it right the first time. • I’d like to learn: Top 10 best organic growth suggestions. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Do business the right way. Hire people who are forward-thinking individuals who have the right attitude, understand the mission, and can foster a positive culture for all . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Golfing whenever I wasn’t working on the farm. I always loved spending time at my Grandmother’s
Levo
Boston, MA
hellolevo.com
Levo helps multi-site healthcare employers maximize clinical capacity by identifying employees who need help, understanding the reasons, and providing actionable next steps.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Improving timeliness of care and clinician productivity by identifying gaps in staffing, schedules, and development plans. Bringing down missed visits and early terminations by surfacing operational issues in real-time
Category: Clinical Capacity Management
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 10
Jason Yu CEO
jason@hellolevo.com
I’d like to share: Insights from the data re: how the industry manages clinical capacity and what we’ve found works best. • I’d like to learn: Where growing workforce capacity ranks in an executive’s list of priorities . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Spend time in the field. Especially for software providers who may not have operational experience . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Tubing on Lake Shasta.
LHC Group
Lafayette, LA lhcgroup.com
LHC Group is one of the nation’s largest provider of home health and hospice services. We were acquired by Optum in February 2023.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 100,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $2.6B
States Operating In: All 50
Benjamin Doga, MD Chief Medical Officer
benjamin.doga@lhcgroup.com
I’d like to share: Staffing parameters and virtual visit journey. • I’d like to learn: Payor strategies and prevention of hospitalization. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Recognize that you are a guest in the patient’s home. Progress from there. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I grew up in a rural area, so my best way to spend a summer day was exploring wooded areas and open fields near my home
Bruce Greenstein EVP, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer bruce@lhcgroup.com
I’d like to share: I re-read Moneyball this year—it is 20 years old. Our industry can learn a lot from challenging the old way, using data, and winning with less. • I’d like to learn: How to help more patients with the same resources . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Don’t try to replicate how others run their business or manage patient care. Bring in a fresh perspective—share it with others. Don’t be afraid of challenging convention. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my BMX bike with friends and getting ice cream and going to the city pool
Gwen Guillotte Chief Revenue Officer
gwen.guillotte@lhcgroup.com
I’d like to share: Our experiences pursuing value-based reimbursement. • I’d like to learn: How you are deploying different clinical models to address care in the home. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Spend time thinking about what our stakeholders are looking for, so you can design clinical and operational models that are aligned with their needs. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swimming with friends.
Liberty Partners Group
Washington, DC libertypartnersgroup.com
Liberty Partners Group provides government relations and public affairs counsel to major corporations, industry associations, non-profit organizations, and small businesses with interests before the United States House and Senate, The White House, federal agencies and numerous states
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
Andrew Woods CEO
awoods@libertypartnersgroup.com
Life Detection Technologies
Sunnyvale, CA distasense.com
Life Detection Technology has a novel technology to impact both the outcomes and economics of post-acute care for chronic patients. LDT has developed a contactless monitoring system to quietly monitor heart and respiratory rate on patients while they sleep. A waterproof bed sensor is strapped to the bed and collects data and made available each morning to a clinician
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Looking for partners interested in technology to more effectively deploy their labor pools, improve outcomes, or grow patients served. Also, affecting rehospitalization VBP and having another tool in hospice population during last seven days of care
Category: Remote Patient Monitoring
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice
# Employees: 50
Gil Rivas Chief Commercial Officer
grivas@distasense.com
I’d like to share: In this financially challenging market, new enabling technology (beyond software solutions) is the key to provide better care for more patients while also protecting your invaluable clinical resources . • I’d like to learn: How do you approach developing and piloting a new initiative business case that also gains the support of all your stakeholders? How can a new partner best assist? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Respect people’s time. Providers face enormous challenges so be very mindful of what you ask for and be very thoughtful about what you are offering. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Played stickball in my NYC neighborhood with my best friends and imagined winning the world series for the NY Mets!
LifeCare Home Health Family
Haslet, TX lchhfamily.com
LifeCare Home Health Family of companies provides solutions to healthcare needs in the home. Our mission is to provide superior quality home health, private duty and hospice care services that patients recommend to their friends and family; physicians prefer for their patients; employees are proud to be a part of and community partners think of first
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 1,800
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $150MM
States Operating In: FL, NV, NM, TX
Dean
Alverson President & CEO
dean.alverson@lchhfamily.com
Spouse/Guest: Donna Brunett. • I’d like to share: We had a successful recapitalization earlier this year and are growing our business through acquisitions, De Novos and Organic with Zenyth Partners . • I’d like to learn: How to optimize reimbursement in the home health and private duty space . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Educate yourself on the complexity of the industry and be prepared for rapid change. Find the right talent for weathering the economic storm and scaling your business. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Exploring new areas and new cultures .
Jonny
Funston
CFO
jonny.funston@lchhfamily.com
I’d like to share: S—this industry is SPECIAL. H—it takes HEART to do what we do. A—take ACTION. R—REMEMBER why we do what we do. E—ENJOY every moment . • I’d like to learn: How to be a visionary. I am 35 and have attended three Home Care 100’s...how can I channel my vision the way the titans in our industry have to do something truly special? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: This is tight and close-nit community—build and cherish the friendships and partnerships you will make. Enjoy the ride! The highs are high and the lows are low. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Saltwater fishing in the Keys!
Adam Thomas Chief Administrative Officer
adam.thomas@lchhfamily.com
Lifespace Communities
Dallas, TX
lifespacecommunities.com
For more than 46 years, Lifespace Communities has provided care and services to seniors across the United States. Today, we are among the nation’s largest not-for-profit senior living providers with more than 4,100 team members serving more than 5,600 residents across 16 communities in seven states
Tax Status: Not for Profit
States Operating In: FL, IL, KS, MN, PA, TX, WI
Mike Roach Chief Strategy Officer
mike.roach@lifespacecommunities.com
I’d like to share: Hypothesis and ideas on where the industry is headed based on industry, customer data, and trends. • I’d like to learn: Innovations and best practices that others have implemented across technology integration, resident engagement, or business models. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Ask a lot of questions
LightBay Capital
Los Angeles, CA lightbay.com
LightBay is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused on partnering with growth-oriented companies in the healthcare services and business-and-consumer services sectors.
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
Ben Herman Partner
bherman@lightbay.com
Lincoln International
Chicago, IL
lincolninternational.com
We are trusted investment banking advisors to business owners and senior executives of leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies around the world. Providing M&A, capital raising, and valuation and board advisory services. Post-acute and home and community-based care has been an important “power alley” practice for Lincoln for over a decade
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Successfully closed on over 100 transactions in home healthcare and related technologies across skilled nursing, hospice, home care, home infusion, and home medical supplies. Working with companies serving seniors, pediatrics, and IDD populations
Category: Finance – Investment Bank
# Employees: 1,000
@LincolnInt
Barry Freeman Managing Director bfreeman@lincolninternational.com
I’d like to share: This is a fantastic industry that makes real impact in the lives of the patients it cares for. I am always fascinated with the breadth, depth, and substance of the people who make this sector thrive. • I’d like to learn: Innovative methods and models to move home health care into the future and meet the changing needs of patients, caregivers, payors and stakeholders. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build your business for the long-term (ie, thoughtful about people, processes, and technology) because the marketplace no longer rewards scale that is unsustainable • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I would cruise the neighborhood in the 70s with my Big Wheel or Schwinn bike with a banana seat. Hitting “the lakes” in Minnesota with friends and a Boom Box in the 80s.
Lincoln Healthcare Leadership
Southport, CT lincolnhc.com
Our mission is to inspire excellence in healthcare leadership, strategy and innovation through exceptional insights and exceptional communities. We are focused exclusively on senior care, with a goal for our work to improve the U.S. healthcare system toward higher quality, lower cost and more coordinated care
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We are evolving our annual leadership gatherings to deliver year-round platforms for sharing best practices and building critical relationships.
# Employees: 25
Tim Craig Managing Director, LTC 100
tcraig@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: My new role heading up Lincoln’s SNF business has given me a new perspective on the future of post-acute care. I am happy to share. Let’s catch up. • I’d like to learn: What are your expectations for how the incoming White House administration will prioritize funding for home care services? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: This can be a great career path for someone interested in fashioning the future of care delivery. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the town pool...swimming, diving, Marco Polo, you name it.
Chris Babbidge VP Partnerships
cbabbidge@lincolnhc.com
I’d like to share: I’d like to thank all of our partners, providers and industry leaders for their continued support of Home Care 100, and for their contributions in making it such an impactful annual gathering. • I’d like to learn: What innovative approaches and/or successes has your organization had in tapping into a nontraditional workforce demographic, such as foreign workers and those new to healthcare? • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: All of us neighborhood friends riding our bikes together to the beach–like a motorcycle gang. God love the patient drivers who got stuck behind us!
Lincoln Healthcare Leadership
Southport, CT lincolnhc.com
Miriam Adams
Senior Manager, Event Operations
madams@lincolnhc.com
My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Just being outside either riding my bike, jumping rope, playing games with the other kids on the block or going to the beach.
Emily Bracken
Senior Manager, Event Operations
ebracken@lincolnhc.com
My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: “Capture the Flag” with neighborhood friends
Sara North Conference Aide
snorth@lincolnhc.com
My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I lived on a street with lots of kids, most had a pool. We would pool hop and at each house, the mom would bring out snacks. Then our moms would yell for us at dinnertime
Linden Capital Partners
Chicago, IL linden.com
An experienced team that brings high-level expertise, integrated perspectives, valuable knowledge, and a deep cross-section of industry relationships to every one of our companies.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Looking to do more in the home care space through both structured capital and PE
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care # Employees: 80
Rick Slager Operating Partner
rslager@linden.com
I’d like to share: Looking forward to seeing everyone again and hope to connect . • I’d like to learn: Your vision, thoughts and goals. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Fasten your seatbelt it should be an exciting couple of years on the horizon. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: With friends on a beach on Lake Michigan
Josh Reilly Principal
jreilly@linden.com
Provider
LiveWell Partners
St. Louis, MO livewellpartners.com
LiveWell Partners enhances the quality of life for our patients and their families by providing home care delivered with respect and compassion.We lead with a people-first focus based on our belief that great clinical outcomes are delivered by great clinical teams
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 2,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $75MM
States Operating In: IL, KS, MI, MO, OH
Jason Growe CEO
jgrowe@livewellpartners.com
I’d like to share: I’m energized by making new connections and learning from others’ experiences. I look forward to meeting you! • I’d like to learn: How are you incorporating AI into their technology roadmap? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Our industry is highly collaborative. Seek out advice (and friendship) from others. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing basketball in the backyard.
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Dong Zhao Interim CFO
dzhao@livewellpartners.com
I’d like to learn: How others have scaled home care businesses, and what investors value in home care businesses
Luxe Home Health
Des Plaines, IL luxehh.com
At Luxe Home Health, our sole mission is to guide you on your journey toward independence. We are committed to empowering our patients to live fuller, healthier lives by providing timely, personalized, in-home care that fosters self-sufficiency and enhances well-being. Our team is dedicated to helping you regain confidence and achieve your goals in the comfort of your home
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 350
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $3.5MM
States Operating In: IL, IN, KS, MO
Tim Fields Owner
tjf@ignitemedicalresorts.com
I’d like to share: Try to think outside the box and innovate with your team. • I’d like to learn: How to embrace technology to better our staff and outcomes . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Healthcare needs home health a lot in the upcoming years. How can you better align to hospital systems, payers, and technology? • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing baseball.
MatrixCare by ResMed
Bloomington, MN matrixcare.com
Multiyear winner of the Best in KLAS award for long-term care software and home health and hospice EMR, MatrixCare is trusted by thousands of organizations to improve efficiencies and promote a better quality of life for the people they serve. An industry leader in interoperability, MatrixCare helps providers collaborate to optimize outcomes and successfully manage risk
New Initiatives or Future Plans
MatrixCare is positioning itself to lead the future of out-of-hospital care by enhancing interoperability, enabling providers to seamlessly connect and collaborate across the care continuum
Category: Enterprise Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Care
# Employees: 500 @MatrixCare
Bobby
Ghoshal Chief Commercial Officer,
SaaS
bobby.ghoshal@resmed.com
Jason
Jones
VP Sales, Home & Hospice, RCM
jason.jones@matrixcare.com
I’d like to learn: How agencies are using predictive analytics to increase better outcomes and efficiencies throughout an agency’s organization . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn every part of the business. Sit with the billers, coders and drive alongside the nurses and aides. Learn it all and understand how everything works together. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Exploring. Sun up to sun down on our bikes riding on wooded trails and exploring through every creek and stormwater drain we could find.
Mike Kearns VP New Business
mike.kearns@matrixcare.com
I’d like to share: MatrixCare solutions lead the way in clinician satisfaction. MatrixCare has been Best in KLAS for that past five consecutive years . • I’d like to learn: What is preventing you from making a change to a new EMR? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Avoid sacrificing quality as you establish the processes and procedures for your agency. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Endless days chasing the daylight.
MatrixCare by ResMed
Bloomington, MN matrixcare.com
Shane Curtis Head of Revenue & Customer Success
shane.curtis@matrixcare.com
I’d like to share: Would like to share MatrixCare’s dedication to helping clinicians and organizations offer the best in end of life care. • I’d like to learn: What their most pressing needs are in the software and services realm as well as industry trends. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Patient care is king
Tim Smokoff
General Manager, Home Health & Hospice
tim.smokoff@matrixcare.com
I’d like to share: Desire to see a paradigm shift in post-acute care. It’s time to consider and prioritize the needs of individuals and family caregivers where care is more continuous, proactive, and informed. • I’d like to learn: Best practices for closing gaps in care through interoperability and the use of technology to provide passive, proactive, and predictive patient engagement. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Network aggressively. This is a tight community and people are willing to share their advice and connections. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Water skiing at the lake followed by an evening camp fire couldn’t be beat
Dale Thomas, RN Enterprise Sales Executive
dale.thomas@matrixcare.com
I’d like to share: My 30+ years of experience in the industry and how we can collaborate to improve the quality of patient care, help with recruitment and retention of staff, all while making agencies more efficient . • I’d like to learn: Strategies from top agencies and and industry thought leaders on how they have not only managed but excelled in the shift to value-based care . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: If you don’t like what’s going on in home care, give it a second, it’ll change! After 30+ years in the industry, the only constant I’ve seen is change . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing baseball and playing in the creek
Maxwell Healthcare Associates
Shoreview, MN maxwellhca.com
Maxwell Healthcare Associates (MHA) offers tailored post-acute solutions, blending innovative technology with deep industry expertise. Whether it’s operational assessments, M&A support, or implementation of tech-enabled support tools, MHA’s team of industry veterans provide wideranging strategic guidance and proven pathways to success
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Amid dynamic industry changes, MHA is committed to supporting the post-acute space through cutting-edge technology and strategic guidance. Our seasoned team helps agencies optimize all aspects of their organization to achieve sustainable success
Category: Consulting
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice
# Employees: 28
@MaxwellHCA
Jennifer Maxwell CEO & Co-Founder
jennifer@maxwellhca.com
I’d like to share: We’re excited to share insights on how our innovative technology solutions streamline operations, improve patient care, and drive growth . • I’d like to learn: How agencies are looking to leverage technology, AI, and data to improve patient outcomes, and enhance operational efficiency to generate growth . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: The heart of home care is compassion. Remember, you’re not just providing a service; you’re making a difference in someone’s life. Building trust and understanding is key. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I enjoyed camping along Lake Sakakawea with my parents and riding horses along the Missouri river on hot summer days with my childhood bestie
Jay Duty COO
jduty@maxwellhca.com
Spouse/Guest: Traci. • I’d like to share: We see ourselves as a strategic partner to our clients. As the home care and hospice industry faces unprecedented challenges, we’re committed to providing innovative solutions that empower agencies. • I’d like to learn: How technology will reshape our workforce. I’m excited to explore the strategies and technologies that will define the future of home care . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always foster continuous learning and empathetic communication. Stay informed about the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to enhance your abilities. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: My elementary school years at church camp were filled with fun playing baseball on the field, cooling off in an Olympic-sized pool, and embarking on endless adventures.
McKesson Med-Surg
Richmond, VA mms.mckesson.com
When it comes to helping you provide quality care, McKesson delivers. Whether you are looking to improve regulatory compliance and clinical training, reduce supply costs or offer a broader product selection, McKesson Medical-Surgical delivers comprehensive solutions to help your facility achieve better clinical and business outcomes.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Delivering supplies, services and solutions for you and your patients. As healthcare shifts from in-hospital to distributed and at-home care, you need a partner who helps improve care–wherever it’s provided.
Category: Medical Supply Distribution
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 80,000
@McKesson
Ray Roberts SVP Extended Care
raymond.roberts@mckesson.com
I’d like to share: McKesson is here to help support you and your business in anyway that we can, helping you achieve success in advancing health outcomes for all. • I’d like to learn: What are the biggest challenges you’re facing in the upcoming year and how McKesson and I can support your efforts even more as we move into the new year. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be a sponge, and always remember there is a patient at the end of the decisions that you’re working for. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Being outside with friends until the street lights came on and then there was a mad dash home
Brent Poythress VP Extended Care Strategic Account Sales
brent.poythress@mckesson.com
I’d like to learn: How home health providers are effectively navigating supply provision and billing requirements for the growing managed care patient populations. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Embrace the opportunity to learn from passionate leaders, listen to understand the needs of patients and caregivers, and challenge yourself daily to focus on innovation .
McKesson Med-Surg
Richmond, VA mms.mckesson.com
Mark Snodgrass VP Post Acute
mark.snodgrass@mckesson.com
Mark Crick Field VP Strategic Accounts
mark.crick@mckesson.com
I’d like to share: McKesson is committed to the HHA and Hospice segments, and continues to invest and innovate in the future of healthcare . • I’d like to learn: Pain points for executives when it comes to supply chain initiatives, and how the proposed changes to reimbursement will effect purchasing trends . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: In our industry, work ethic and passion beats talent 90% of the time. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: As a kid, there was nothing better than a relaxing day fishing, without a care in the world
Brent Kiefer National Accounts Director
brent.kiefer@mckesson.com
I’d like to share: I have 20 years of experience managing large, complex home health and hospice customers. • I’d like to learn: What you foresee as an operator as your biggest challenges in 2025. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always stay professional. Don’t burn bridges. It is a small world and you will likely cross paths again down the road. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Anything outdoors. Always played some sport with the neighborhood kids
MD at Home
Chicago, IL
md-athome.com
MD at Home provides home care, home medical doctors, and housecall physicians to patients in need with a focus on preventing readmissions during the transition from an acute care setting to the home. For over 20 years, we’ve served as the premier healthcare resource for primary care and geriatric medicine for homebound patients in the Chicagoland area. Partnering alongside some of Chicago’s most established and respected institutions, we tailor our programs toward modern guidelines with an unwavering focus on clinical excellence, patient satisfaction, and measured clinical outcome.
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
States Operating In: IL, NC
Aristotle Kornaros CEO
aristotle@axiosdme.com
Medalogix
Nashville, TN medalogix.com
Medalogix is a leading post-acute care analytics company revolutionizing home health and hospice. Through advanced machine learning and AI, its solutions, Pulse and Muse, enable clinicians to deliver timely, personalized care. Medalogix can improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalizations, ensure timely transitions, enhance care efficiency, and improve OASIS and coding
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Pulse adds new capabilities: Transitions, identifying home health patients mortality risk; Referrals and Admissions, streamlining intake and transforming OASIS scrubbing and coding. Muse introduces features to support agencies’ transition to HOPE
Category: Data Science Solutions
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice
# Employees: 95
Elliott Wood
President & CEO
ewood@medalogix.com
Spouse/Guest: Cherry. • I’d like to share: Client successes and new best practices with our products Pulse and Muse. • I’d like to learn: Providers’ 2025 objectives and goals. Innovative opportunities/strategies with MA and how you are managing labor. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: HHA is an industry of change. Embrace it! Patient demographics change, payment models evolve. Use the Home Care 100 community and partners for support and best practices as you grow.
Scott Hampel COO
shampel@medalogix.com
I’d like to share: Delighted to be back at Home Care 100. Medalogix has grown exponentially in the last year. Would love to speak with Home Health and Hospice attendees about elevating your AI strategy and initiatives. • I’d like to learn: What are your biggest challenges navigating the changes in your industry? Reimbursement cuts? Clinical documentation? Workforce productivity? Eligibility? Hospitalization rates? Audit? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: I’m not qualified to advise a new home care nurse or home care administrator. But I would advise a HCIT executive to attend Home Care 100, read HHCN news, read MedPAC and PHHQ. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Annual lake trips with family and friends in Michigan or Virginia. Lots of tubing, skiing, swimming, games of all sorts, cookouts, junk food, and laughs
Nashville, TN medalogix.com
Chris O’Donnell VP Business Development
codonnell@medalogix.com
I’d like to share: The latest addition to the Pulse platform, Referrals and Admissions. R&A leverages GPT 4.0 technology to ensure consistency/compliance from referral packet through admission, including diagnoses/OASIS. • I’d like to learn: With all the buzz around generative AI, I would like to hear the top problems agencies are aiming to solve, and how they envision integrating new technologies into current systems/business processes. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always focus on improving patient care. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the Finger Lakes, which is still the case!
Jonathan Nofsinger Business Development
jnofsinger@medalogix.com
I’d like to share: I entered the health and hospice industry in 2012 and for the last 12 years I have loved watching all of the positive change come from integrating data science and machine learning. • I’d like to learn: What has prevented organizations from evaluating and/or integrating data science and machine learning into their daily patient interactions and analysis . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: I’d focus on spending time either in the field or within an operation to understand how challenging it can be to care for patients in their care setting . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Outside playing football/basketball, on roller blades or a bike
MedBridge
Seattle, WA medbridge.com
Medbridge provides an all-inclusive digital ecosystem purpose-built to serve all the specific needs of home health care providers. We prepare nurses to confidently take on the challenges of home health and hospice, and support them across their entire career journey with quality onboarding, clinical excellence at the point of care, and ongoing training and mentorship
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Medbridge Pathways, the provider-first digital therapy platform for home health agencies. Thrive in HHVBP by optimizing in-home therapy utilization. Reduce risk of rehospitalization, grow clinical capacity, improve operating margins.
Category: Patient Engagement/Experience
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice
# Employees: 160
Joe Brence VP Strategy
joseph.brence@medbridge.com
I’d like to share: I am passionate about my family, healthcare innovation, NFL and heavy metal. I love to discuss all four subjects. • I’d like to learn: Are you noticing any changes in the needs and wants of HH consumers (ex. Many are looking to remain connected between visits via some form of digital means...) • My advice for someone starting out in home care: This market requires a lot more autonomy than others. Ensure you are equipped with the right tools/products to ensure your own confidence/success
Ross Caplet VP Account Management
ross.caplet@medbridge.com
I’d like to share: I’ve spent 10+ years digital healthcare and am continually amazed at how technology continues to open up new avenues of care for providers and patients. • I’d like to learn: How are you and your organizations thinking about digital care, growth, and the ever changing regulatory environment ? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Give it your best! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Outside, but specifically on the lake with my family
Medline Industries, LP
Northfield, IL medline.com
With deep experience in home health and hospice, Medline is more than a supplier. We’re a partner who can help identify gaps and opportunities and develop customized solutions that improve your clinical, financial, and operational performance
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Medline is excited to launch InsureCare, a platform to fulfill orders for separately reimbursable supplies through a network of DME providers. With InsureCare, we will continue to improve patient access to the care and qualified providers they need
Category: Medical Supply Distribution
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 36,000
@Medline
Steve Brody SVP Home Care
sbrody@medline.com
I’d like to share: Medline is committed to partnering with home care providers to help them improve care to the lives they manage as well as their businesses . • I’d like to learn: The challenges home care providers have and how Medline can help • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Listen, be patient, and be confident that small improvements will build towards better care
Melissa Avilez VP Sales, Home Health & Hospice
mavilez@medline.com
I’d like to share: I am delighted to have joined Medline this past year and to be part of an organization that is dedicated to serving the entire continuum of care with a relentless focus on our customers . • I’d like to learn: I look forward to engaging with all of the attendees and learning about their unique experiences in home care. I’m excited to make new connections and friends in the industry! • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is an ever-changing industry. I would encourage those starting out to stay flexible, resilient, and determined to learn.
Medical Brain
New York, NY medicalbrain.com
Medical Brain is a comprehensive AI platform that leverages patient data and patient-generated information to provide precise decision support. It engages with patients and providers to identify emerging health risks, and guides real-time actions.
Eyal Ephrat, MD CEO, healthPrecision
eephrat@healthprecision.com
MissionCare Collective
St. Petersburg, FL missioncare.com
MissionCare Collective offers innovative workforce solutions to boost retention, reduce recruitment costs, and transform employee relationships. Our brands: CoachUp Care: A digital framework creating virtual communities for a more connected, cost-efficient workforce. myCNAjobs: The nation’s largest caregiver network, with hires 24% more likely to be retained at 90 days
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Collaborations to drive systemic workforce change
Category: Workforce
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 50
Brandi Kurtyka CEO
brandi@missioncare.com
Spouse/Guest: Nathan. • I’d like to share: We’re transforming the industry by empowering leaders to drive measurable improvements in employee engagement, retention, and billable hours. Brands include CoachUp Care, myCNAjobs, and MissionCare. • I’d like to learn: What workforce metrics you’re evaluating today and your plans to improve them. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Get plugged in with industry leaders, multiple associations, and various events to gain different perspectives . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Selling something or trading basketball cards with kids in our neighborhood
Mission Healthcare
San Diego, CA
homewithmission.com
As a leading provider of healthcare in the home, our team of skilled clinicians deliver high-quality, patient-focused care where it matters most. Mission provides home health and hospice services across the western US and looks forward to growing across the region in 2024 and beyond
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled & Hospice
Average Daily Census: 4,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $180MM
States Operating In: AZ, CA, ID, NV, OR, UT, WA
Phil Spencer CEO pspencer@missionhh.com
I’d like to share: There is a lot of room for collaboration within the industry. This is such a vital part of our healthcare delivery system and the fragmentation we see (versus other parts of healthcare) means that we often don’t have the ability to effectively advocate at the highest levels for adequate reimbursement, etc . • I’d like to learn: Best practices. There are so many people who are tackling the same issues as we all strive to give the best care possible to patients in the communities we serve. Listening to and learning from others is among the best things this conference provides. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Don’t be afraid to ask questions, especially “why.” Coming from healthcare but outside of this discipline, there are a lot of things that you can add to improve all aspects of the business . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Baseball! At a game, playing a game or reading about the game. When I think of summer, baseball is still top of mind
cmcdonough@missionhh.com
I’d like to share: How integrating advanced tech like automation and AI can revolutionize home care, improving patient outcomes and streamlining operations
• I’d like to learn: How different organizations are managing change in our current climate and retaining/hiring employees. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be empathetic, communicate well, practice self-care, and keep learning . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Spending time with my family on vacation or at sporting events .
Mission Healthcare
San Diego, CA homewithmission.com
Mag VanOosten Chief Clinical Officer
mvanoosten@missionhh.com
I’d like to share: How centralization improves an organization . • I’d like to learn: How to hold clinical leadership accountable to quality outcomes . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be curious and think outside the box. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Hanging out at my grandparents’ farm riding horses
MJHS Hospice & Palliative Care
New York, NY mjhs.org
MJHS Hospice and MJHS Home Care are members of the not-for-profit MJHS Health System, which has cared for at-risk New Yorkers since 1907. Both have earned Joint Commission accreditation and the Platinum Credential from LGBTQ+ focused SAGECare. Our hospice program was also the first in New York to become a Level 5 Partner in the national We Honor Veterans initiative
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 1,200
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $135MM
States Operating In: NY @mjhs01
Laurie Chichester COO
lchiches@mjhs.org
I’d like to share: Coming from an organization with multiple lines of business, we’ve benefitted from each other’s knowledge and experiences. We all need to work together to benefit all service areas. • I’d like to learn: The secrets to staff retention while balancing effective and productive business practices. Staffing is the key to so many others things. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be flexible, things are always changing. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Happy memories camping with my family!
Eni Bakallbashi Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer
ebakallb@mjhs.org
MN HomeCare Association
Minneapolis, MN mnhomecare.org
Minnesota Home Care Association (MHCA) serves a breadth of home care providers through advocacy, education, resources, and collaborations. Our resources help ensure that home care services will be high-quality and sustainable New Initiatives or Future Plans
In 2025, we will continue our workforce related initiatives. One of our short-term goals is to increase access to care for individuals on Medicaid and a long-term goal is to draw more young people to home care careers
Who We Serve: Home Care/Personal Care
Kathy Messerli Executive Director
kmesserli@mnhomecare.org
Nascentia Health
Syracuse, NY nascentiahealth.org
Nascentia Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system providing comprehensive home healthcare, long-term care, and community-based services. Our mission is to be the premier HCB system for patient-centered care, improving health outcomes and promoting independence
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 9,200
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $295MM
States Operating In: NY
Mary Kate Rolf President & CEO
mkrolf@nascentiahealth.org
Spouse/Guest: Jim. • I’d like to share: Real leadership isn’t about authority; it’s about caring for and supporting your team, fostering their growth and success, which ultimately leads to the success of the organization as a whole . • I’d like to learn: New and unique approaches that make the greatest and most positive impact on those we lead as well as those we care for. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Have a great team that can assist you for your organization to easily adapt to the ever-changing state and national regulations and requirements
Cheryl Manna COO
cmanna@nascentiahealth.org
Syracuse, NY nascentiahealth.org
June Castle
CFO
jcastle@nascentiahealth.org
Andrea
Lazarek-LaQuay Chief Clinical Officer
alaquay@nascentiahealth.org
National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance)
Washington, DC
allianceforcareathome.org
The National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) is the unified voice for providers delivering high-quality, person-centered healthcare to millions of individuals, wherever they call home. The Alliance launched in 2024 through the affiliation of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
Who We Serve: Home Care/Personal Care, Hospice, Palliative Care
Steven Landers, MD
CEO
stevelanders@allianceforcareathome.org
I’d like to share: The Alliance is 1,500+ members strong–representing highintegrity providers across all 50 states. We’re a vibrant community and powerful advocate for care at home, unified we will make a difference . • I’d like to learn: What are the best ideas for improving the care at home providers / Medicare Advantage plan relationships? These groups should be great partners, but doesn’t always seem to be the case, how do we fix? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: You are now a part of the most important, compassionate, high-value movement in our healthcare system. Jump in, spread the love, and win on the high road. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I grew up with a love of the outdoors, especially hiking and fishing. I could spend hours at the side of a pond going after bass and sunfish or just exploring the forest
sbrand@allianceforcareathome.org
I’d like to share: I am excited to start my new role as COO of the National Alliance for Care at Home and I look forward to connecting with everyone to discuss how we can best serve this amazing industry we are privileged to work in (yes I listed two). • I’d like to learn: Your top three concerns and how you are addressing them. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Take time to learn something new every day and always remember that what you do helps people to be able to return to or remain in the place they call home. That is a gift. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Doing anything outside–riding bikes, playing hopscotch, four squares, mother may I, etc., in a pool swimming or at the playground playing kickball. My only break time was for lunch and “when the streetlights came on.”
Nautic Partners
Providence, RI nautic.com
We are a private equity firm based in Providence, Rhode Island with a long track record of investing in and growing healthcare service companies across a range of end markets, including home-based care, post-acute care, pharmacy, behavioral health, and value-based primary care.
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
Chris Vinciguerra Managing Director
cvinciguerra@nautic.com
Nestmed
San Francisco, CA
nestmed.com
Nestmed is the leader in AI documentation for home health. Nestmed records audio for all visit types and completes documentation in real time, freeing clinicians to focus on patients. Agencies on Nestmed increase overall productivity by over 20% and improve retention. Advanced AI-driven explanations enable staff to ensure charts are accurate, high-quality, and defensible
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We listen very closely to our clients who require efficient documentation that maximizes reimbursement and minimizes audit risk. Advanced integration capabilities and streamlined chart review and compliance workflows are top priorities
Category: AI/Documentation
Who We Serve: Home Health
# Employees: 18
Moiead Charawi
CEO m.charawi@nestmed.com
I’d like to share: I first discovered home care while caring for my dad. His nurse was as genuine as they come. I’d love to share some of the stories clinicians have sent me about how our work has impacted their lives. • I’d like to learn: What brought you to home care, and how do you see value-based care shaping the industry? I’d love to understand what emotionally drives you in this space . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Shadow home visits or volunteer for hospice. Seeing care firsthand is life-changing—it will help you feel deeply invested in this fulfilling work . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Summers in Philly meant trips to Rita’s Water Ice. I’d get green apple and watermelon Italian ice or chocolate soft serve—still a tradition when I visit!
David Kerns Chief Strategy Officer
dkerns@nestmed.com
I’d like to share: The positive impact that Nestmed has had on clinicians, patient care, and home health organizations across the country. • I’d like to learn: I love collaborating with other home care operators to share insights on their biggest challenges and successes over the past year. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: There’s so much to learn in home care but at the same time there are so many amazing people willing to share best practices. Don’t ever be afraid to ask for help! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Time with family on a roadtrip with the RV!
San Francisco, CA nestmed.com
Barak Oshri CTO
barak@nestmed.com
I’d like to share: Each time we process a document, our system applies 40,000 lines of instructions from the OASIS manual and expert clinical notes to ensure the quality is excellent and compliant. • I’d like to learn: How does your agency negotiate value-based contracts with insurers and track outcomes for reducing rehospitalizations? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Clinicians love home health for its schedule flexibility (“My car is my office”) and dynamic work (“Each patient visit feels new”). Highlight this to attract and retain staf. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Exploring the rainforests of my hometown, Singapore, on long, earthy hikes—whether in rain, heat, or humidity— beautiful during the day but even more exciting at night.
Netsmart/McBee
Overland Park, KS ntst.com
Netsmart and McBee empower home care, hospice, and palliative agencies with technology and services to enhance revenue, streamline operations, improve clinical efficiency, and offer consulting and outsourced support
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Enhancing care delivery with AI-powered documentation and predictive analytics. Updates to the platform include smarter scheduling, streamlined mobile workflows, and improved interoperability for home care and hospice operations
Category: Enterprise Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 2,500
@NetsmartTech
Mike
Valentine CEO
mike@ntst.com
Spouse/Guest: Caylee.
Mike Dordick
SVP Post-Acute Strategy & President, McBee
mikedordick@mcbeeassociates.com
Spouse/Guest: Melanie. • I’d like to share: I look forward to speaking with other attendees on how McBee is working with providers to develop new revenue streams within your existing patient base. • I’d like to learn: Creative ways you are working to enhance your margins while improving patient outcome . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: The home care industry is a tight knit community. The faster that you connect with your peers will give you amazing advantage to network and learn from others. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I always loved my days at day camp, both when I was a camper and later as a counselor, which I started when I was six and was there all the way until I graduated college
Netsmart/McBee
Overland Park, KS ntst.com
Bob Braun
SVP
bobbraun@mcbeeassociates.com
Spouse/Guest: Shannon. • I’d like to share: How McBee is helping agencies capture more revenue per patient. Also, How Netsmart’s Care Fabric story surpasses all other Post Acute technology company...and we’re delivering it today!
• I’d like to learn: What technology have you implemented (or want to) that helped you take on the headwinds we all face? What are your biggest tailwinds you’re experiencing?
• My advice for someone starting out in home care: Spend as much time in the field as you possibly can to understand the day in the life of the people delivering care and see the impact and value of our industry. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing “chase” or “kick the can” until the streetlights came on and everyone knew it was time to go home and eat dinner.
David Strocchia
SVP & Managing Director, Provider Solutions
dstrocchia@ntst.com
Spouse/Guest: Jennifer. • I’d like to share: How Netsmart can help you automate clinical and back-office workflows to make all of your team members more efficient, more productive, and happier. • I’d like to learn: How we can partner with providers to help solve new and complex challenges with technology. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build strong relationships with clients, communicate clearly, stay organized, and continuously educate yourself on best practices and new technologies. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my bike around the neighborhood, knocking on kid’s doors, playing in the street, and not coming home until dinner time .
Hannah Patterson VP & General Manager, Care at Home
hpatterson@ntst.com
I’d like to share: Remember that at the heart of every technological advancement is a human connection. Let’s work together to blend compassion with innovation, ensuring that both clients and caregivers thrive. • I’d like to learn: The #1 priority for you in 2025 to improve patient outcomes. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: The foundation of success in homecare lies in trust, communication and empathy. Never lose sight of the human connection that makes homecare so special . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding bikes around the neighborhood and building a lemonade stand to make money!
Partner Netsmart/McBee
Overland Park, KS ntst.com
Anthony Spano VP Post-Acute Client Development
aspano@ntst.com
I’d like to share: I’m an ex-data scientist and full-time healthcare information systems professional. Let’s talk about what information system problems are curbing your scalability; I love to geek out on these things . • I’d like to learn: What are your plans for growth? How are you solving workforce challenges? What could you do with 2-3x more starts/day? Are you expanding service lines and/or considering alternate payment models? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Become a student of the industry! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I used to earn 15 minutes of video game time per 30 minutes of exercise or reading. So, read a few chapters, run or play outside with friends, then hit some PlayStation.
Maria Warren VP Post-Acute Strategy
mwarren1@ntst.com
I’d like to share: About our AI solutions that improve clinician capacity, optimize revenue, and increase cash collections . • I’d like to learn: Your goals and priorities and what you’re looking forward to most in 2025. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Seek out a mentor, either within your company or externally, who can guide you, provide valuable feedback, and equip you with the resources needed for success. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the lake, soaking up the sun, enjoying the water, and savoring s’mores by the fire...and it’s still my favorite way to spend a summer day
Nevvon
New York, NY nevvon.com
Nevvon provides an advanced e-training platform that simplifies mandatory education for caregivers, ensuring compliance and reducing costs. Committed to supporting value based programming—and with a focus on multilingual, accessible, high-quality training—we enhance caregiver retention, improve care delivery, and drive growth for home care agencies
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Enhanced agency management software integrations; surveying and rewards and recognition programs to engage and incentivize workers; supports for orchestrating in-class training; new learning pathways designed for personal and professional growth
Category: Training & Education
Who We Serve: Home Health, Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 72
James Cohen CEO & Co-Founder
james@nevvon.com
I’d like to share: Nevvon is a compliance training platform built for complex multi-state enterprise home care and health agencies. • I’d like to learn: The biggest pain points from an integration and automation perspective us technology companies can help solve. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Set yourself up for scale and remember your caregiver employees are your clients too . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Beach, beach, and more beach
New Day Healthcare
McKinney, TX newdayhealthcare.com
New Day Healthcare (ND) provides home health, hospice, personal care, and pediatrics care to over 12,000 patients daily, touching over 150,000 annually. Serving Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois with nearly 8,000 team members. With proprietary carelytics software, ND has developed comprehensive people, process, and technology to predict patient issues and intervene
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 13,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $300MM States Operating In: IL, KS, MO, TX
Scott Herman
Co-Founder & CEO
sherman@nday-hc.com
Spouse/Guest: Kimberly. • I’d like to share: “Burn The Ship.” New Day is a home care continuum providing longitudinal care for over 12k patients daily, touching over 150k yearly. Carelytics monitors ~115k patients daily to identify change . • I’d like to learn: Market outlooks on VBC, MA, and how others are bridging the care gaps. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Care for patients across payers and time. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Fishing.
Kathy Poland
Co-Founder & COO
kpoland@nday-hc.com
I’d like to share: I have over 22 years of experience in the industry. • I’d like to learn: Meet peers and hear about the same operational challenges. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Long hours—hard work—rewarding. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Family trip to Washington State to see family
Justin Miller
Co-Founder & EVP Patient Navigation
jmiller@nday-hc.com
Spouse/Guest: Mandy. • I’d like to share: Opportunities around Continuum building, innovation within New Day bridging care gaps. • I’d like to learn: How are other companies treating MA plans, what process are they using for recruiting and filling staff. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Healthcare is always changing, roll with the punches. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Enjoying the lake with family.
New Day Healthcare
McKinney, TX
newdayhealthcare.com
Jeffrey (Jeff) Aspacher
CFO
jaspacher@nday-hc.com
Spouse/Guest: Paula. • I’d like to share: We are very fortunate to be able to spend our professional lives leading others to serve a growing population of aging seniors in their most comfortable and least costly setting...their home . • I’d like to learn: How to continue to drive down the cost of providing excellent care . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: You have the opportunity to provide true one on one care and you are able to provide that care in the patient’s home. You can see the challenges they face every day. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing baseball and swimming
Matthew Griffith Chief Development & Strategy Officer
mgriffith@apderm.com
I’d like to share: While the home health industry has been faced with continuous challenges, the long term outlook is incredibly optimistic. But we need to change how we think about home based care and delivery models. • I’d like to learn: How other skilled care providers are designing operating models in light of managed care penetration and reduced margins, along with how acquisition strategies are impacted by managed care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Take a data driven approach to studying the dynamics of the industry, while listening and learning from established veterans. Home health is not run from a spreadsheet. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Running around the backyard with friends and jumping in the pool. No need to go anywhere—the value was in the simplicity of being at home with family and friends.
Dave Marchand CIO
dmarchand@nday-hc.com
Spouse/Guest: Starr. • I’d like to share: Our thoughts on the challenges we are facing as an industry currently and how we can leverage technology to address those challenges. • I’d like to learn: Overall thoughts on the challenges facing our industry in the next 12-24 months to in order to identify new and innovative technology solutions to overcome those challenges . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always remember that our primary purpose is the serve the patient and make their lives, and the lives of those that care for them, better by treating them in their homes. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Leaving the house in the morning and not returning until it was dinner time. No electronics, no tvs. Just experiencing the outdoors with friends
New Day Healthcare
McKinney, TX newdayhealthcare.com
Anita Angstadt SVP Clinical Operations
aangstadt@nday-hc.com
Spouse/Guest: William (Bill). • I’d like to share: Never give up. Don’t let the hard days dictate your attitude or prevent you from keeping your eyes on the goal . • I’d like to learn: Your process for managing Home Health VBP scores/outcomes . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be flexible and be informed. The Home Health world is ever changing and evolving
Jeff Bonham Operations Project Specialist
jbonham@nday-hc.com
Spouse/Guest: Kim. • I’d like to share: It’s been a privilege to work in the Home Care industry for 35+ years. • I’d like to learn: Update on progress of AI technology for clinical documentation. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: This is a heavily regulated industry. Learn and follow the established rules and regulations. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing nine holes with my Dad and good friend/mentor Billy Barris
NorthStar Care Community
Ann Arbor, MI northstarcarecommunity.org
We provide hospice and palliative care for over 2,800 patients and their families in Michigan. We also employ staff in 27 states who help provide clinical triage, full IT and EMR technical support, remote MD services, HR & education services as well as other management services to 54 organizations in 21 states
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 2,750
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $130MM
States Operating In: AZ, CA, CO, GA, IN, IA, KY, MD, MI, NH, NC, OH, PA, RI, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV
Patrick Miller President & CEO
pmiller@hom.org
I’d like to share: Work to help executives balance work/life demands. • I’d like to learn: Thoughts on practical leveraging of AI. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Have a strong EHR partner
Marcie
Hillary EVP & Chief Experience Officer
mhillary@hom.org
Eric
Kaplan VP Technology & CIO
ekaplan@hom.org
Northwell Health
Garden City, NY northwell.edu
Northwell Health At Home is made up of a certified home health agency, hospice agency, licensed agency, and infusion pharmacy. As part of a large $18B health system, consisting of 23 hospitals, 6500+ hospital and long-term care beds, and more than 12,000 credentialed physicians, the network is aligned with system initiatives related to quality care
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 7,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $290MM
States Operating In: NY
Merryl Siegel
EVP Continuing Care
msiegel@northwell.edu
Irina Mitzner
SVP Clinical Operations & Nurse Executive
imitzner@northwell.edu
NVNA
Norwell, MA nvna.org
NVNA and Hospice provides home care, palliative and hospice services in 27 communities across the south shore of Massachusetts. We also have a 12-bed hospice residence. Our strongest features are our ability to be innovative and adaptive to the needs of our community and patients and families. We have grown revenue every year despite staffing challenges and healthcare changes
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 800
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $44MM
States Operating In: MA
Kate Mercier COO
kmercier@nvna.org
My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is a challenging business model. However, it is rewarding to deliver quality care in the home setting. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the beach!
nVoq
Boulder, CO nvoq.co
nVoq offers AI-powered documentation solutions that enhance the operational efficiency and financial performance of home health and hospice agencies. By enabling faster, more comprehensive, and compliant documentation with its speech-to-text platform, nVoq helps agencies provide quality care while also encouraging timely reimbursements and reducing denials
New Initiatives or Future Plans
The future of home care is deeply intertwined with the thoughtful integration of AI, something we have been innovating for ten years. We will continue to develop a platform that is powered by AI with the unique needs of our industry at the forefront.
Category: Speech Recognition
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 60
Dawn Iddings Chief Revenue Officer
dawn.iddings@nvoq.com
I’d like to share: Thought leadership on the evolution of technology to ease caregiver burden. • I’d like to learn: What providers believe is ahead in the home-based market in 2025. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: There is something to learn from everyone. Be a transformational leader. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my Yamaha YZ80 through the woods and nearby farmers’ fields. I don’t think they liked it, but it provided hours of outdoor fun
Jason Banks VP Business Development, Commerical
jason.banks@nvoq.com
I’d like to share: The importance of solutions that address the root cause of recruitment and retention. Specifically how nVoq is addressing burnout and quality associated with the documentation burden of clinicians . • I’d like to learn: New and interesting delivery of care models driven either by payers or innovation . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Take risks. This industry needs risk takers that think out of the box. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Outside with my buddies. From sunup, to sundown. Every day was a new adventure to us. No video games, no television. Somehow, we managed to stay busy for 12 hours a day
Ok Alone
Victoria, BC okaloneworker.com
OK Alone, the world’s largest personal safety tech provider, protects over 250,000 users globally. We offer cutting-edge safety features like panic buttons, tracking, monitoring, and check-ins to keep workers safe. With integrations into platforms like Geotab™, we scale effortlessly. We’re committed to advancing safety tech innovation and protecting more people every day
New Initiatives or Future Plans
OK Alone, offers tech innovations such as integrations with Microsoft teams and Geotab™, enabling seamless deployment and safety monitoring. We support providers’ objectives by ensuring worker safety, compliance, and peace of mind, at any scale
Category: Workforce Safety & Security
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 100
Scott Witte VP Sales scott@okalone.net
I’d like to share: I want to highlight the vital role technology plays in keeping healthcare workers safe while emphasizing that simplicity is just as important • I’d like to learn: The unique safety challenges home care providers face in the field and how you currently address them. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Prioritize safety and culture from day one. Ensure your team has the right tools and protocols in place to stay protected while providing care . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing a lot of different sports from football to basketball to hockey or going to the beach
Olli Health
Madison, WI
ollihealth.ai
Olli Health provides an AI-powered home health medical coding and OASIS/Plan of Care quality review (QR) managed service with better accuracy and faster turnaround times at half the cost of existing solutions. Olli Health is revolutionizing coding and QR with cutting-edge technology, supported by certified U.S.-based coding and OASIS experts, at a market-leading price
New Initiatives or Future Plans
With Olli Health, you get: unmatched speed and more consistent accuracy; significant cost savings: save up to 75% compared to traditional methods; better outcomes: more accurate coding, compliant quality reviews, and improved case mix.
Category: AI Coding & Quality Review
Who We Serve: Home Health
# Employees: 8
Eric Steege CEO
eric@ollihomehealth.ai
I’d like to share: Olli Health is the industry-leading, AI-powered home health medical coding and quality review managed service with better accuracy and faster turnaround times at half the cost of existing solutions . • I’d like to learn: What are your top AI business use cases, expected ROI timelines for new AI solutions, and preferred frameworks for deciding whether to build, buy, or partner on AI solutions? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Don’t forget to focus on back-office efficiencies. It’s one of the main cost levers you have control over. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing soccer and fishing with my friends
OnePoint Patient Care
Tempe, AZ
oppc.com
OnePoint Patient Care owns and operates hospice-dedicated local pharmacies serving more than 750 hospices and 56,000 patients daily. Our unmatched same-day delivery capabilities, mail order, pharmacy benefits management (PBM) services, extensive inventory, and expert clinical guidance enable us to reliably and flexibly meet hospice patient needs
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We continue to invest in our industry leading local hospice-dedicated dispensing model, expanding service to underserved communities across the country and ensuring that our hospice partners have access to medications for their patients 24/7
Category: Pharmacy
Who We Serve: Hospice
# Employees: 500 @oppcrx
Mike Porpora President mporpora@oppc.com
I’d like to share: While there is a trend of independent pharmacies shifting away from hospice and/or closing completely, OnePoint remains committed to expanding our local pharmacy model across the country. • I’d like to learn: How can we continue to partner with hospices to improve care outcomes for hospice patients? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Remain humble. Continue to seek feedback from others who have been in the industry to learn from their mistakes and successes . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Spending as much time on the lake as possible. Water skiing, jet skiing, anything to do with being out on the water!
Sema Almashhadani Director, Business Development sema@oppc.com
I’d like to share: My excitement about reconnecting with old friends and networking with industry professionals, exchanging ideas and exploring opportunities to enhance hospice care together. • I’d like to learn: Attendees’ successes and challenges, gaining valuable insights to enhance our pharmacy approach in serving the hospice community. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: The home care landscape is always evolving. Stay current with regulations, best practices, and technology, but always keep improving patient quality of life as your core focus . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Camping! We’d pitch a big tent in the backyard with friends, roast marshmallows, play games, and listen to my three brothers tell dramatic, scary stories—those were the days!
OSF Home Health and Hospice
Peoria, IL
osfhealthcare.org/services/home-care
OSF Healthcare is an integrated health system operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. OSF HealthCare has 17 hospitals—operates OSF Home Care Services, an extensive network of home health, hospice service, HME and home infusion— throughout Illinois and Michigan. OSF employs nearly 24,000 Mission Partners across 158 locations
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 3,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $140MM
States Operating In: IL, MI
Jason Rodeghero President
jason.r.rodeghero@osfhealthcare.org
Spouse/Guest: Nicole Steenrod. • I’d like to share: OSF Healthcare is a 17 hospital, multi-state, faith-based system. OSF Home Care provides home health, hospice and palliative care, home medical equipment, and home infusion pharmacy services. • I’d like to learn: From other health system leaders about integration within complex health systems that operate hospitals, post-acute services, and ambulatory medical practices. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn the regulations and understand the complexity of the payment system. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my bike or skateboard and playing outside all day
Sarah Overton Chief Nursing Officer & VP Clinical Services
sarah.c.overton@osfhealthcare.org
Spouse/Guest: Brian. • I’d like to share: Chief Nursing Officer in both Ambulatory and Home Care for large multi-hospital system. Leveraging employed provider groups and Servicelines to drive care excellence . • I’d like to learn: How to improve clinical outcomes while balancing resources and keeping staffing highly engaged. Research and nursing quality, EBP is top of mind for me to learn more about! • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Observe and learn from the frontline clinical teams. Explore the work they do daily. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Boating and swimming
Outreach Health
Richardson, TX
outreachhealth.com
Since 1975, Outreach Health has provided home care services across Texas and Arizona. We’re passionate about innovation and value-based care, enhancing quality, efficiency, and outcomes. By aligning incentives with quality and understanding each client’s unique needs, we deliver sustainable impact and strengthen communities
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 4,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $80MM
States Operating In: AZ, TX
John David Ball CEO
john.ball@outreachhealth.com
Parachute Health
New York, NY parachutehealth.com
Parachute Health is the fastest, most reliable way to order medical equipment and supplies for patients online. The online ordering platform gives you visibility into order status and real-time messaging in the platform to get your product questions answered directly from your supplier
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Parachute Health announces the launch of its groundbreaking collaboration with two of the largest healthcare companies to revolutionize DME ePrescribing and now prior authorization while reducing costs for health plans, DME providers, and clinicians
Category: Post-Acute ePrescribing
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 231
Scott Leopold
Senior Director, Post-Acute Business Development
scott.leopold@parachutehealth.com
I’d like to share: Ordering equipment doesn’t need to be so hard. We no longer need to rely on fax machines. Digital ordering for DME and supplies is here . • I’d like to learn: Where are the communication breakdowns you deal with with other providers or ancillary services? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Find a mentor. People want to help those who want to learn. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the beach, of course. See you on the beach in Marco Island!
Pediatric Home Service
Roseville, MN
pediatrichomeservice.com
PHS provides comprehensive homecare services, including Equipment and RT, Infusion and Pharmacy, Home Care Nursing, Feeding Support, HH and more, to help kids with medical complexities live their best live in their community. Every decision aligns with our mission: “To make a difference in the life of every family we serve by taking care of the child.”
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
States Operating In: IN, KY, MN, OH, TX, WI
Adam Nielsen CEO
adnielsen@pediatrichomeservice.com
Penn Home Care
Harrisburg, PA pmtsolutions.net
Penn Home Care and Penn Medical Home Health Care are integral parts of the healthcare continuum, offering comprehensive and compassionate services tailored to meet diverse patient needs. These entities operate with a shared commitment to delivering high-quality care in the comfort of patients’ homes, promoting independence, safety, and well-being
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $200MM
States Operating In: All 50
Yousef Hassan
Director, Finance & Support Services
hassany@pmtsolutions.net
I’d like to share: My name is Yousef Hassan, and I serve as the Director of Finance and Support Services for PMT Solutions. With extensive experience in financial management and business development. • I’d like to learn: Connections and networking. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Ask around and dont do it alone. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Camping and fishing
Pennant Services
Eagle, ID pennantgroup.com
Pennant is a premier leadership company providing life changing opportunities and setting the standard for excellence through our core values and unique operating model. Our core values: customer second, accountability, passion for learning, love one another, intelligent risk taking, celebration, ownership
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 14,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $500MM
States Operating In: AZ, CA, CO, CT, ID, MT, NV, OK, OR, TX, UT, WA, WI, WY
John Gochnour President & COO
jgochnour@pennantservices.com
I’d like to share: My passion for in-home care as a solution to the promises we have made to the baby boomer generation in meeting their needs . • I’d like to learn: Strategies for using technology to improve the employee experience and effectiveness and efficiency of care delivery. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Find your “why.” Embrace the opportunity to deliver the best clinical outcomes in the most desired service location. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the river wake boarding, cliff jumping, and exploring
Bryant Saxon Chief Information Officer
bsaxon@pennantservices.com
I’d like to share: How Pennant is leveraging technology, data, and AI to streamline operations, enhance patient care, and improve staff experience across home health, hospice, and personal care services. • I’d like to learn: Innovative approaches and successful strategies for driving innovation in home care, using strategic partnerships, and navigating industry challenges to deliver exceptional care . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on relationships—both with your team and the people you serve. Great care starts with trust, and building strong connections will guide you through the challenges. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Exploring the outdoors—climbing trees, playing sports, and spending time with friends. I specifically loved picking blackberries and exploring the woods!
Pennant Services
Eagle, ID pennantgroup.com
Jason Steik Chief Clinical Officer
jason.steik@pennantservices.com
I’d like to share: What makes Pennant so special. • I’d like to learn: How to better influence the industry of home-based care . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Connect with the “why” of home care. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Running around as a feral kid
Alicia Bowman VPCO
alicia.bowman@cornerstonehhh.com
I’d like to learn: Industry update and trends in utilization of AI for documentation, coding and defensible documentation. What trends we are identifying to reduce risk in new or start up agencies. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home health and hospice is a special niche. Take the time to familiarize yourself with this very personal environment and the vulnerable adults we are privileged to treat . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the softball field, camping, Rubin got playing hoops with my family!
Perry
Manhattan, NY perrypoints.com
Built by data scientists and engineers, Perry is a B Corp that improves employee productivity, quality of care, word-of-mouth referrals and loyalty through performance-tied incentives. We help healthcare agencies boost revenue and cut costs. Perry’s platform uses artificial intelligence to reward caregivers and clinicians for good actions on the job
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Predictive analytics designed to anticipate employee burnout (“flight risk”) and mitigate the economic impact of losing a trained employee. We call it AI-enabled Flight Control
Category: Workforce Engagement Platform
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 25
Dean Zimberg CEO & Founder
dean@joinperry.com
Pinnacle Home Care
Oldsmar, FL
pinnaclehomecare.net
Pinnacle Home Care is a Medicare Certified and Florida Licensed full-service clinically owned and operated health care company, led by professionals who are passionate about delivering exceptional outcomes and quality care beyond expectation to patients, referral partners, staff and the communities that we serve. Pinnacle Home Care is largest home health agency in Florida.
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Larry Allen SVP Technology
lallen@pinnaclehomecare.net
I’d like to share: This is my first time attending Home Care 100. • I’d like to learn: Looking to learn from others, and specifically how technology might assist with business and clinical challenges. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: With the rapid rate of change, change management principles become critically important. And be careful of having a technologies in search of a problem . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Roaming the forest and playing tennis.
Polsinelli
Kansas City, MO polsinelli.com
Polsinelli is an Am Law 100 firm with 1,000+ attorneys in 20+ offices. Polsinelli provides comprehensive representation of home health, personal care, and hospice agencies across the country. Our attorneys have developed a programmatic approach to home-based care transactions establishing cost savings for serial acquires and deploying legal tech to streamline deal work
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Polsinelli attorneys align their thinking and their legal practice with the executive perspective and business management of the clients they serve by deploying legal technology to support an environment of transparent communication and partnership
Category: Law Firm
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 1,000
@Polsinelli
Angelo Spinola
Shareholder & Practice Chair Home Health – Skilled, Home Care and Hospice
aspinola@polsinelli.com
Andrew Voss
Health Care Mergers & Acquisitions Co-Chair
avoss@polsinelli.com
I’d like to share: I currently co-chair Polsinelli’s Health Care M&A practice and we operate under a client-team structure composed of specialists deeply entrenched in the post-acute sector. • I’d like to learn: Your thoughts on the current market and compare recent experiences and the outlook for the next 12 months . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Surround yourself with knowledgeable advisors to help navigate the ever-changing governmental regulations that impact the home care market
POM Safe
Newark, NJ
pomsafe.com
POM Safe is the only provider of safety solutions designed specifically for post-acute care teams. By integrating advanced technology with real-time data, POM Safe offers a comprehensive platform that enhances caregiver safety, improves operational workflows, and ensures compliance with workplace safety standards
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Our enhanced admin dashboard integrates safety into every stage of care, from intake to discharge. Features include Visit Risk Reports, real-time SOS alerts, and EMR integration— empowering caregivers and improving workflows across the care continuum
Category: Workforce Safety & Security
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 30
AJ Leahy Founder & CEO
aj@pomsafe.com
I’d like to share: How to ensure your people in the field are safe and the new regulations that impact caregiver safety requirements . • I’d like to learn: The biggest challenges leadership faces, viewed from the lens of how we can provide value in helping our partners overcome those obstacles . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always remember your “why.” • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: There were always huge pick up basketball and volleyball games at the town park. Any summer day there were tons of kids hanging out—the ice cream truck made a killing on us.
Jonas Fortenberry VP Business Development
jonas@pomsafe.com
I’d like to share: POM Safe is purpose-built for home care, with features shaped by customer feedback to address real-world caregiver safety challenges, making caregiver safety and protection our top priority. • I’d like to learn: How they are answering these two questions: “How do we ensure our staff are safe in the field?” and “What do they do when they feel unsafe?” • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build trust by listening to clients’ needs, communicating clearly with families, staying empathetic, and prioritizing self-care to provide the best care possible. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Skiing and playing at my grandparents’ house on Lake Norman in North Carolina
Premier Home Health - Skilled Care Services
New York, NY
premierhomehealthcare.com
Our main focus remains on providing home health services to patients in the home. We are growing our private pay business in addition to our MLTC services. We have years of experience in care management and have excellent outcomes. Our membership continues to grow in this space. We are also able to provide UAS and other in-home assessments
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 50,000
States Operating In: CT, FL, IL, MA, NJ, NY, NC
Marsha Ramos President
mramos@phhc.com
I’d like to share: Premier Home Health Care is a national home care leader and is a nurse-led organization that believes in partnerships. Our business focus is on care managing vulnerable patient populations . • I’d like to learn: How you are managing quality incentives and payment models, what new initiatives are being piloted, how teams are using AI and other technologies to grow the business . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Go into this space with the goal of doing the right thing, remember you are in someone’s home, and treat everyone how you would want to be treated. Remember what’s important. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: In Puerto Rico eating fruit off the tree.
ProCare Hospice of Nevada
Las Vegas, NV procarehospice.com
At ProCare Hospice, we believe end-of-life care is about dignity, compassion, and connection. As a family-owned provider in Las Vegas, we offer expert pain management, emotional support, and specialized pediatric program. Accredited by CHAP, we uphold the highest standards and are focused on expanding access to ensure no one faces the end of life without exceptional care
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 260
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $17MM
States Operating In: NV
Keith Everett CEO
keverett@procarehospicenv.com
I’d like to share: Compassion-driven care changes lives—period. Let’s cut the clichés and work together on bold, innovative strategies to expand access, improve outcomes, and set a new bar for hospice and home care. • I’d like to learn: I want to cut through the fluff and learn real, strategies from leaders who are actually driving excellence and tackling challenges in hospice and home care—no sugarcoating, just results. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Exploring the woods, fishing, playing sports, working on cars as the neighborhood mechanic, and fixing things. Summer days were all about work, adventure, creativity, and fun
Provident Healthcare Partners, LLC
Boston, MA providenthp.com
Provident is a leading healthcare investment banking firm specializing in merger and acquisition advisory, strategic planning, and capital formation services for healthcare companies. The firm has unsurpassed experience and a comprehensive knowledge across all subsectors of the healthcare industry including home healthcare, and unique insight into the M&A process
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Provident will continue to advise founder owned businesses through transaction opportunities that not only offer a market-premium liquidity event but will also ensure the legacy of their organizations live on for years to come
Category: Finance – Investment Bank
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 35
Kevin Palamara Managing Director
kpalamara@providenthp.com
I’d like to share: I have worked in the home care industry for over 20 years, representing many of the leading providers in home health, hospice care, personal care, and pediatric home health and therapy sectors. • I’d like to learn: How providers have navigated through the challenges of the past year, and see how others are evolving for the future of value-based payment.
Jake Vesely VP
jvesely@providenthp.com
I’d like to share: Our experience and insights for post-acute care organizations considering or preparing for a potential transaction with private equity or strategic partners. • I’d like to learn: What are the short- and long-term growth objectives of your organization and how have they shifted over the past few years? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Invest in scalable processes, technology, and people early to build a strong foundation for growth and operational efficiency.
PurposeCare
Indianapolis, IN purposecare
Purpose Home Health is committed to providing quality care and services to patients in an effort to meet their changing health care needs and to keep them where they want to be—at home, aging in place. Our skilled team of nurses, aides and support staff provide care centered around our patients’ needs—including medical, home and personal needs
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
States Operating In: OH, IN, MI, IL
Richard Keller CEO
rich.keller@purposecare.com
QAPIplus
Los Angeles, CA qapiplus.com
QAPIplus is the leading software for home health, hospice, behavioral health, long-term care, and home care. It digitizes and automates quality and compliance programs like QAPI, emergency preparedness, and infection control. Save time, cut costs, boost efficiency, and stay survey-ready. Proudly, QAPIplus ensures higher performance with less staff burden and lower costs
New Initiatives or Future Plans
With a strong emphasis on innovation, QAPIplus continues to expand its offerings, including AIdriven features to support performance improvement and policy development, ensuring its clients stay ahead in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape
Category: Quality Assurance
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 30
@qapiplus
Armine Khudanyan
Co-Founder & CEO
armine@qapiplus.com
I’d like to share: As CEO of QAPIplus, I’m dedicated to enhancing patient outcomes by easing compliance burdens, empowering providers to focus on clinical excellence, and advancing safety in post-acute care . • I’d like to learn: I am inspired to learn how we can collaborate with industry leaders at Home Care 100 to drive impactful change, advance patient safety, and empower agencies to deliver the highest standard of care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on patient-centered care, stay adaptable, and prioritize compliance and quality from day one. Building trust and delivering excellence will set you apart in home care . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swimming—nothing beat the joy of being in the water and feeling free!
Lara Koraian
Co-Founder, CTO & CFO
lara@qapiplus.com
I’d like to share: When I’m not working I am a big time sports mom and enjoy watching my children play sports and learn life lessons through sports . • I’d like to learn: How we can spread the adoption of technology to make clinical teams’ lives easier. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Leverage technology to save time and streamline operations. Efficient tools allow you to focus on what matters most—delivering quality, patient-centered care! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding bikes until dusk and hanging out at the beach—endless adventures, sandy feet, and the best memories under the sun!
Qualis
Rocky Mount, NC qualis.com
As a DME management company to great hospices, Qualis’ core belief is that DME truly matters. It matters in maximizing your staff’s time, and having DME as a positive reflection on your hospice. Qualis provides vendor choice, excellent pricing, utilization assistance, a state-of-the-art ordering platform, and dynamic client advocates to focus on quality.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Partnerships, partnerships and more partnerships. Seamlessly move from DME to all other aspects of care!
Category: DME/HME Management Solutions
Who We Serve: Hospice
# Employees: 50
Jared Kelley CEO jkelley@qualis.com
I’d like to share: I am here to learn but also to be used as a resource for others. Need help with DME? Come find me! • I’d like to learn: What’s new? What’s giving you heartburn? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Surround yourself with people. Especially people that know more about the space, have more experience, and are willing to help! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Golfing with a push cart (couldn’t drive) that also held my tackle box and rod. Play a few holes, stop at a pond to fish, and then repeat. All summer, all day long!
Red Road Healthcare Business Solutions
Bangalore, India redroadhbs.com
We provide expert clinical back-end services to improve our clients’ business efficiency and help grow their profitability. Our executive team’s decades of experience on the provider side of home health care helps us understand the needs of our clients and allows us to deliver on our promise to provide high-quality and cost-effective coding, compliance, and RCM solutions
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We are continuing to expand our data analytics offerings to support our clients in interpreting their data and providing them with information tools they need to provide more efficient service, higherquality care, and improved outcomes
Category: Billing & Coding Services
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 400
Anitha Arockiasamy Founder & President
anitha.a@redroad.in
I’d like to share: Our learnings from the last five years on how to reduce your clinical compliance risk, improve quality, and increase efficiencies in back-office operations. • I’d like to learn: Your biggest pain point in ensuring a high level of compliance across their respective organizations . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Reading.
Alexandra Augustin VP International Operations
alex.a@redroadhbs.com
I’d like to share: Quality and cost-savings do not have to be mutually exclusive. I love helping our clients grow and ensuring that they have the bandwidth to focus on what they love—delivering high quality care. • I’d like to learn: What providers think about outsourcing clinical back office support services. What are your pain points, what are your concerns, what do you find beneficial about it for your organizations? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Compassion is at the heart of home care, but not just for the patients. We also have to have compassion for their families, caregivers, nurses, and aides
Red Road Healthcare Business Solutions
Bangalore, India redroadhbs.com
Dan Locker
US Director, Sales
danlocker@redroadhbs.com
I’d like to share: In today’s challenging healthcare environment with rising costs and little change in reimbursement, reducing administrative expenses is essential to success. Red Road can provide support. • I’d like to learn: How we can better assist providers so they can continue to care for people in their home . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: The work that you do is so important and valued by your patients and their family. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Going to Jones Beach
Research Institute for Home Care
Washington, D.C.
researchinstituteforhomecare.org
The Research Institute for Home Care is a non-profit foundation that invests in research and education about home care and its ability to deliver quality, cost-effective, patient-centered care across the care continuum. The Institute is committed to conducting and sponsoring research and initiatives that demonstrate and enhance the value proposition of care at home
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 1
@researchinghc
Jennifer Schiller Executive Director
jschiller@researchinstituteforhomecare.org
I’d like to share: I’m excited by the expanding research and database we’re building at the Institute with more hospice initiatives, a continued focus on highquality home care research, and more. • I’d like to learn: How to encourage and engage the next generation of home care workers and clinicians, especially as they start their careers. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Patients and families are at the forefront and being allowed into the home is a scary but incredibly important choice for many of them. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: We used to spend a week with a group of friends in Wisconsin every summer running around and playing games. I got to take my kids this summer, which was the best
Right at Home
Omaha, NE rightathome.net
Right at Home is a home care franchisor primarily focused on personal and companion care services. We also operate several company-owned locations and have international master licensees in five countries. We are committed to innovating our business model as part of our threeyear strategic plan to meet the needs of a growing market paired with insufficient labor supply
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 18,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $1B
States Operating In: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, Canada
Brady Schwab Chief Growth Officer
bschwab@risemark.com
Spouse/Guest: Amy. • I’d like to share: Results from our first year of an internal corporate innovation team and how we built our approach. • I’d like to learn: Ways for personal care to help secure healthcare outcomes for skilled provider partners and the data that we can provide to strengthen payor relationships . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Keep the mission top of mind for your teams every day —caring for someone else is a commitment and can “empty your bucket” quickly. Be grateful, thankful, and celebratory! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Head out into the woods for hours of exploration and adventure. Somedays I was Indiana Jones and others James Bond. Show back up just in time for dinner—hungry and dirty.
Robinson & Cole LLP
New York, NY rc.com
We provide the full range of legal services to the home care and hospice industries on a national basis to assist our clients in navigating the complex legal and business issues they encounter in a cost efficient and practical business oriented manner. We have one of the leading home care and hospice M&A practices nationally
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We continue to expand our client service offerings with the addition of new practice groups and enhancement of existing practices
Category: Law Firm
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care, Behavioral Health, DME, Physician Practice Management
# Employees: 500
@RobinsonCole
Les Levinson Partner & Co-Chair, Transactional Health Law Group
llevinson@rc.com
Spouse/Guest: Joan. • I’d like to share: Our experiences in transactional matters and how we can assist providers and investors in navigating ever changing market conditions successfully. • I’d like to learn: What are you doing to motivate and retain staff. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Talk to as many people in this space as possible as they will invariably share something of value with you based on their experiences. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing sports
Roger Healthcare
San Francisco, CA rogerhealthcare.com
Roger is an AI platform trusted by agencies caring for tens of thousands of patients. Through ambient listening, it cuts home health documentation time by 80%, letting clinicians focus on patient care. Roger also serves as a live assistant—capturing key details to ensure compliance, simplifying charting, maximizing reimbursement—and integrates seamlessly with your EHR
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Roger has unlocked 20% more capacity for its home healthcare clients, giving clinicians their evenings and weekends back. Now it’s rolling out enhanced, AI-driven medical coding and QA features—powered by live patient conversations
Category: AI/Documentation
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice
# Employees: 8
Yusef Iskandar CEO yusef@rogerhealthcare.com
I’d like to share: As a tech enthusiast and AI researcher, I’m excited to share my insights on AI’s potential and its limits, especially in transforming elder care while keeping the human connection at the heart of it . • I’d like to learn: What motivates attendees to work in elder care and hear their ideas on making this industry more appealing for others to stay and start businesses in this space . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on building genuine connections with patients and their families, keep pushing through changes in regulations, and do it for the positive impact rather than profits only. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Running around the streets of Europe, playing soccer with friends until sunset, and ending the day with ice cream or a cool swim
Roper St. Francis Healthcare
Charleston, SC rsfh.com
Roper St. Francis Healthcare is the Charleston, South Carolina, area’s leader in comprehensive healthcare offering a large network of primary/specialist care, acute care, post-acute care, and home-based care. Our home-based care network includes Roper Home Health, Roper Hospice, palliative medicine, remote patient monitoring, and Hospital at Home
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Average Daily Census: 1,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $150MM
States Operating In: SC
Troy Powell Regional President
troy.powell@rsfh.com
Spouse/Guest: Charla. • I’d like to share: Roper St. Francis Healthcare is a four hospital health system located in Charleston, South Carolina. We continue to expand our home-based care services including home health, hospice, RPM, and H@H. • I’d like to learn: Innovative ideas and plans to advance, expand, and disrupt home based care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Appreciate the fast rate of change in healthcare and home-based care in particular. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing outside with my older brother.
Dave Anderson Director, Home Care Services
david.anderson@rsfh.com
Spouse/Guest: Brandy. • I’d like to share: I’m excited to have the opportunity to meet with everyone coming to Home Care 100. It is imperative that we are able to collaborate with many experts in the home care field . • I’d like to learn: I look forward to being able to collaborate with other experts in the field of home health and hospice to discuss strategies and opportunities to improve our efficiencies with the home care world. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always be willing to learn. Understand that if a process fails, you can gain great knowledge from lessons learned. Typically we learn more from failure than we do “wins.” • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: In the water. Whether that was in the ocean, pool or a local lake, always loved skiing and fishing growing up .
Advisory Ross Holdings, LLC
Chickasha, OK
Focusing on a Medicare patient population consuming 60 plus percent of the healthcare resources but less than 16 percent of the beneficaries. Providing strategic and tactitical advisory servcies for care in the home moving from FFS to risk-bearing value base arrangements
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Working within CMMI demostration models mostly REACH high needs ACO’s focusing those models in the home with home base primary care. Building networks that includes home health, palliative care, and hospice in risk-bearing arrangements
Who We Serve: Home-Based Primary Care/VBC
# Employees: 1
Hank Ross Founder & Senior Advisor
hross@housecallsok.com
Spouse/Guest: Alison. • I’d like to share: Husband, father, healthcare entrepreneur, executive advisor. Change agent with a focus in home base primacy care, HN ACO’s, and other value base arrangements. • I’d like to learn: Innovative cost-effective solutions for healthcare in the home . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: The home care sector with be the conduit to bend the national healthcare cost curve under value base arrangements, we are just getting started . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my bicycle around the neighborhood and looking for a basketball or football game. Most of the time loosing my tee shirt during a tackle football game
RVNAhealth
Ridgefield, CT rvnahealth.org
RVNAhealth is a private, non-profit, mission-driven organization founded and focused on care. While our name and services have evolved since our founding as a home healthcare agency in 1914, our guiding principles have remained steadfast: a mission to serve, exceptional patient care, and a commitment to excellence
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 1,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $38MM
States Operating In: CT
Theresa Santoro President & CEO
tsantoro@rvnahealth.org
I’d like to share: My most important responsibility is to ensure that the culture of RVNAhealth supports the mission, vision, and values of the organization and, accordingly, its strategic initiatives. • I’d like to learn: How other leaders embrace change amidst reimbursement challenges and new payor and care models . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: There are just as many gratifying and meaningful moments as there are challenges and problems to solve. You chose an industry that is worth the battle —don’t give up!. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing childhood games with the kids on my block in Brooklyn, going to elementary school bazaars and to Long Island beaches .
Sage Family of Companies
Lafayette, LA sagehospice.org
The Sage Family of Companies is committed to providing compassionate, comprehensive, and qualified care to people with life-limiting illnesses by serving them through their journey with dignity, respect, and integrity. We have approximately 1,300 hospice patients across four states
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 1,300
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $92MM
States Operating In: AZ, CO, GA, UT
Droddy COO
tabitha.droddy@sagehospice.org
Tabitha
SE Health
Markham, ON sehc.com
Backed by 115 years of expertise and breakthrough innovation, Saint Elizabeth Health has been leading the spread and scale of value-based health care in Canada. Working in partnership with hospitals, health systems and community partners, we operate 40+ bundled care programs, serving specialty populations including the frail elderly and post-surgical patients
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Average Daily Census: 25,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $500MM
States Operating In: Canada
Madonna Gallo SVP & Chief Strategy Officer
madonnagallo@sehc.com
I’d like to share: How being one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures is driving our leadership in value-based healthcare. • I’d like to learn: New and emerging business model innovations. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Work with purpose. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swimming at the lake
Matt Snyder SVP & CHRO
matthewsnyder@sehc.com
I’d like to share: Some of the progress we have made linking our social enterprise work external to the organization to our internal workforce . • I’d like to learn: How home care organizations have optimized performance through people, while increasing employee engagement, connection to mission, and satisfaction . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn what your people actually do. understand the drivers for business success, and employee experience maximization . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Beach.
Select Data
Anaheim, CA
selectdata.com
Select Data is transforming digital health data integrity by building trust and explainability in AI to amplify data-driven healthcare decisions that change how clinicians interact with technology.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Our newest initiative simplifies clinical documentation, automating ICD-10-CM and OASIS tasks for improved data reliability. With customizable workflows and transparent AI reasoning it’s designed to empower your team. Come meet with us to learn more!
Category: Data Science Solutions
Who We Serve: Home Health
# Employees: 75
@SelectDataLLC
Ed Buckley CEO & President
edb@selectdata.com
Spouse/Guest: Heidi. • I’d like to share: How providing your workforce with Clinical AI tools in the RCM processing of OASIS and ICD-10 coding can help reduce staff burnout and shortages and significantly improve patient outcomes . • I’d like to learn: How are providers implementing AI to help address the staffing challenges we are seeing in our industry ? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Not all AI solutions are alike. AI is not magic; it is only as good as the data science teams that build them. Choose wisely! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the water (it’s the same now but with a glass of Pinot in my hand!)
Eddie Cruz Chief Product Officer
ecruz@selectdataops.com
I’d like to share: How we transform clinical data into reliable data that optimizes provider operations, and influences policy by addressing root challenges . • I’d like to learn: How leaders navigate the tension between innovation and practicality— balancing the need for innovation with the realities of change management within their organizations. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Do not underestimate the power of understanding the ‘why’ behind the creation. It is about more than tasks—it’s about making a real impact through thoughtful decisions. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Exploring nature alone and discovering hidden paths. It was my way of finding peace in the world around me
Select Data
Anaheim, CA
Tawny Nichols Chief Information Officer
tawnyn@selectdata.com
I’d like to share: My strong desire to revolutionize clinical documentation and the potential of technology. • I’d like to learn: About their “why.” • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Problems in home care are often more unpredictable compared to other sectors. By listening intently, we can better understand these challenges as they arise. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Ocean, river, lake, stream, or pool—if there was water, I was in it
Ted Schulte EVP Business Development
ted.schulte@selectdata.com
I’d like to share: How CNLP and LLMs can help streamline data extraction from medical records and help with interpretation and clinical decision-making. And share how the process greatly reduces document review time . • I’d like to learn: How providers want to impact their workflow and reimbursement using AI and CNLP. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: It’s a dynamic market that is ever changing. Focus on building strong relationships with clients and providers, as trust and personal care are key differentiators. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Walk to the beach in the morning with friends and check out the surf. If there was a good swell, then go in!
Senior Helpers
Towson, MD seniorhelpers.com
Provides personal care services utilizing a very clinical assessment tool that prevents readmissions and hospital visits. While we are predominantly private pay/family funded, we do work with all payor sources including VA, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 25,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $500MM
States Operating In: All 50
Peter Ross
CEO & Co-Founder
pross@seniorhelperscorp.com
Spouse/Guest: Michelle. • I’d like to share: Our view of the opportunities in the market with new care models. • I’d like to learn: What technology is working for you? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be a sponge. Talk with as many people as you can to formulate your ideas. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing sports
Mari Baxter COO
mbaxter@seniorhelperscorp.com
I’d like to share: When I am not wearing my COO hat for Senior Helpers, I love to stay home and cook and spend time on Bald Head Island. I’m the proud mom of two Marine Corp officers. • I’d like to learn: How do attendees manage the compliance for government payor sources and do attendees have compliance teams? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: It can be all consuming the first year and requires a great deal of dedication to earn the trust of your referral sources . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Packing a lunch and going on hikes with my older brothers
Christina Chartrand SVP Training & Staff Development
cchartrand@seniorhelperscorp.com
I’d like to share: I am a first time attendee. • I’d like to learn: Discover new vendors/speakers. I manage our annual conference. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Become the one-stop-shop for senior care in your community. Collect all the senior care resources from a handyman services, mobile dog grooming, to DME companies. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Going to the pool, and playing with friends.
Serent Capital
San Francisco, CA serentcapital.com
Serent Capital is a private equity firm based in San Francisco, CA, with $5+B in capital under management. The firm makes majority and minority investments in growing, profitable service businesses based in the US and Canada, taking an operationally involved approach post-close to help sustain and accelerate growth. The firm has a heightened focus on services businesses, particularly ones with moderate to light capital intensity, requiring limited capital expenditures.
Ilan Dreyfuss VP
ilan.dreyfuss@serentcapital.com
Tom
Underwood Advisor
tdunderwood@gmail.com
Sholom
St. Louis Park, MN sholom.com
Sholom is a Senior Living Provider of residential and health care services. We are currently transforming our organization from a bricks and mortar operation to a community-based, technology enhanced health and wellness provider
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 150
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $54MM
States Operating In: MN
James Newbrough CEO
jnewbrough@sholom.com
I’d like to share: I had been attending Home Care 100 for several years until about seven or eight years ago when I took a position as a CEO of a senior living campus. This is my first year back. • I’d like to learn: How they are using Artificial Intelligence to improve efficiency and as a tool to recruit and retain staff . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Create a great diverse network of colleagues and never turn down an opportunity to learn about a new product or service. Always continue learning . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Out on the family boat waterskiing and tubing with my family and friends. I learned to waterski when I was five years old
Shore Capital
Chicago, IL shorecp.com
Shore Capital is a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on investing in microcap companies in the healthcare space. Shore’s strategy is to support management partners to grow faster with less risk, through access to capital, world-class board and operational resources, and unmatched networking, development, and shared learnings across the portfolio.
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice
Ankeet Patel VP apatel@shorecp.com
SimiTree
Hamden, CT
simitreehc.com
SimiTree is the leading provider of tech-enabled specialty solutions, including revenue cycle management (RCM), coding, professional services, and data analytics for post-acute and behavioral health organizations. Our mission is to support providers through each phase of growth, helping them scale and improve patient outcomes.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
SimiTree is advancing its technology with AI-powered coding automation and RCM dashboards for revenue insights. These innovations will streamline operations, improve accuracy, and provide business intelligence for healthcare partners
Category: Consulting
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Behavioral Health
# Employees: 454
Billy Simione III CEO
wsimione3rd@simitreehc.com
I’d like to share: How SimiTree continues to expand our outsource, professional, data analytics and talent solutions to continue to meet the ever-growing needs of our clients. • I’d like to learn: What are your key strategic initiatives surrounding Medicare Advantage plans? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Make sure you understand the life cycle of a patient, both clinically and financially. Go on a home visit with a clinician. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the golf course, I loved caddying in the morning and then playing in the afternoon or early evening
Eric Scharber EVP
escharber@simitreehc.com
I’d like to share: SimiTree has helped hundreds of organizations acquire the finest talent in the home health and hospice industry through our executive search, management recruiting and interim leadership offerings. • I’d like to learn: What characteristics, or skill sets, do you look for in a candidate when hiring for a leadership position? Also, what has changed (if anything) with that in the past five years? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Network/learn from as many people as possible in the space. There is a ton of experience to be leveraged from those what have been there, done that. Then do it your way! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Being outdoors
SimiTree
Hamden, CT
simitreehc.com
Nick Seabrook
EVP
nickseabrook@simitreehc.com
I’d like to share: Our new RCM dashboards utilize AI to deliver real-time insights and payment projections that are essential for optimizing revenue cycle performance and cash flow. • I’d like to learn: What are your goals for 2025? Did you accomplish your goals in 2024? Why or why not? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: This industry thrives on relationships, so it’s important to engage as much as you can. People in our industry are very willing to share and assist in making connections . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I grew up near the beach in Ocean City, New Jersey so my ideal day was spending the day at the beach then going to the boardwalk to go on the rides and eat Mack and Manco’s pizza.
Erin Masterson SVP Post-Acute RCM
erinmasterson@simitreehc.com
I’d like to share: DSO for Medicare should be <40 days and <70 days for MA plans. I’d love to share how agencies are adapting to staffing, payor challenges and enhancing technology to achieve or reduce this metric . • I’d like to learn: What is the number one RCM obstacle providers are facing and looking to solve? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Relationship Building: Cultivate strong connections with colleagues, promote a collaborative environment, and take a proactive approach to addressing issues together. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swimming! As a kid, I spent nearly every summer day swimming, whether for fun or competitively
Skyscape/BUZZ
Marlborough, MA buzz.skyscape.com
Skyscape Buzz® is transforming healthcare with an innovative, secure, and affordable application that streamlines home care collaboration. BUZZ delivers easy, all-in-one text, phone, video, fax, e-signature, file sharing, EVV, and custom group communication. Buzz also multiplies staff output with the first AI-powered clinical knowledge and workflow productivity tools.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Skyscape’s innovation focuses on simplifying care for all, with active involvement from our partners. BUZZ aims to enhance its AI Productivity and Clinical Knowledge tools, deploying BUZZ to support extensive community-based care initiatives
Category: Secure Messaging
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 20
@skyscapeinc
Mark Lee SVP Growth
mark.lee@skyscape.com
Spouse/Guest: Glenda. • I’d like to share: How our HIPAA-compliant, secure, encrypted application for communication and collaboration improves, interactions, quality scores, reduces readmissions, and overall performance . • I’d like to learn: The current needs in the healthcare ecosystem and what is being done to address them. Where are we with clinically integrated networks and delivery of patient-centric care . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is about “connection” to understand the needs and provide for them in the highest quality of care with integrity! Continued to be relevant . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Outside playing and working in the crop fields, cows, and farm, appreciating the world God had provided us and learning from it
Spectrum Health Care
Toronto, ON spectrumhealthcare.com
At Spectrum, our vision is to create a world where people, especially our seniors, have the choice and confidence to be cared for at home. We provide these services through our Total Care model delivered by our 3,500 team members who provide visits more than 90,000 times every week. We are based in Toronto, Canada with a growing footprint in Quebec
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 20,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $250MM
States Operating In: Canada @Spectrum_HC
Sandra Ketchen President & CEO
sketchen@spectrumhealthcare.com
I’d like to share: Debates and great conversation about innovation and the future of home care—along with the secret behind the Canadian Martini! • I’d like to learn: Value-based care models—what makes them work? fail? grow? How do data strategies support the outcomes? What are the best models of success in the US? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: This sector isn’t for the faint of heart—but spend two minutes every day thinking about the impact you or your organization had on all the patients visited that day. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On my bicycle with the banana seat, roaming around with my gal pals heading to the lake with our popsicles and corner store candy
Peter Ricciardi COO
jross@spectrumhealthcare.com Photo Not Available
pricciardi@spectrumhealthcare.com
John Ross SVP & CFO
St. Croix Hospice
Oakdale, MN stcroixhospice.com
St. Croix Hospice serves more than 5,200 patients throughout the Midwest every day, providing physical, emotional, and spiritual support that meets the unique needs of each patient. St. Croix Hospice teams are stationed in more than 80 branches throughout 10 states, ensuring responsive, proximate service to wherever patients call home.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 4,500
States Operating In: IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, NE, SD, WI
Heath Bartness
CEO
hbartness@stcroixhospice.com
I’d like to share: How culture impacts EVRYTHING we do in our service . • I’d like to learn: I continue to be amazed at the utilization in technology in a serviceoriented field.
Stephen
Phenneger
President & CFO
sphenneger@stcroixhospice.com
I’d like to share: Time with trusted and successful colleagues. • I’d like to learn: How companies are planning and managing palliative care and continuum of care in a managed care environment. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Invest in infrastructure (compliance/HR/analytics) before the need is apparent. There are few problems that you are the first one to face. Develop and utilize industry networks. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the local swim club alternating between water tag/sharks and minnows and kickball/wiffle ball
Joe Mooney Chief Growth Officer
jmooney@stcroixhospice.com
Spouse/Guest: Jen. • I’d like to share: The growth story of St. Croix Hospice. • I’d like to learn: Tactics on recruiting and retaining the best clinical staff . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Laser focus on great patient care. Then celebrate it. Everything else will then take care of itself . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing whiffle ball all day with the neighborhood kids pretending we were players on the Detroit Tigers.
St. Croix Hospice
Oakdale, MN stcroixhospice.com
Mandy Cogswell Chief Clinical Officer
mcogswell@stcroixhospice.com
I’d like to share: I’m excited to share my part of the St. Croix Hospice story. I have been lucky enough to be at St. Croix Hospice since the beginning and have grown my career with the company. • I’d like to learn: What makes attendees successful, what challenges do you face and how do you overcome them ? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Every home and every family are unique. It can be an adjustment to enter someone else’s world to provide care, but it can be very special learning more about patient’s lives. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At my grandparents’ house in northern Minnesota. We spent our days fishing, helping grandpa farm and cooking with grandma .
August Luptak VP Strategy & Operations
aluptak@stcroixhospice.com
I’d like to share: This is my first time at the January Home Care 100 – I’m looking forward to meeting people and hearing how they got into home care. • I’d like to learn: The biggest obstacles other companies are facing and how they’re trying to address them. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Ask as many questions as you can and meet as many people as you can. You can’t know the answer to every question but you can know someone who knows the answer. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Neighborhood capture the flag...an intense competition.
StenoHealth
New York, NY stenohealth.com
StenoHealth is an AI-powered ambient listening documentation platform that allows home health clinicians to seamlessly capture and automate OASIS documentation, reduce administrative burdens, and facilitate better patient care. By integrating directly with EHRs, we improve efficiency, compliance, and care quality
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Launching in Q2 2025: Our AI-based QA/Coding “Sherlock” automates OASIS form QA and coding, reducing costs and errors. Available a la carte or integrated with Steno’s automated documentation platform, it streamlines workflows and boosts compliance
Category: AI/Documentation
Who We Serve: Home Health
# Employees: 13
Alex Milani CEO alex@stenohealth.com
Spouse/Guest: Megan. • I’d like to share: We’ve reduced home health documentation time for enterprise clients from hours to minutes using AI, freeing clinicians to focus on what matters most—patient care . • I’d like to learn: How agencies are leveraging technology to improve operational efficiency and patient outcomes in this evolving landscape. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Surround yourself with experienced clinicians who understand the industry’s challenges and patient needs— they’ll be invaluable in shaping effective workflows and care delivery. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing pickup basketball with friends from sunrise to sunset at our local park!
Stratix
Peachtree Corners, GA
stratixcorp.com
Stratix is the most experienced managed mobile services (MMS) provider in the U.S. and we make sure our clients make the most of their investment from design to implementation. Our SmartMobile programs ensure our healthcare clients have the right mobile technology, tools, connectivity, and support programs in place to support clinicians and patients wherever they are
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Our multicarrier data plans are saving our customers thousands of dollars and can drastically simplify mobile billing and management. Ask us about a free consultation to see how this might benefit your agency
Category: Mobile Solutions
Who We Serve: Home Health
# Employees: 500 @StratixMobile
Ian Fogg Managing Director, Healthcare
ian.fogg@stratixcorp.com
I’d like to share: Getting the best experience for your mobile device users doesn’t have to be painful and expensive! Stratix has helped our customers reduce cost AND improve employee experience for over 40 years. • I’d like to learn: What new technology are you most excited about in the home health space? How are you planning your technology roadmap? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Smile and listen a lot. This is a great community that looks out for each other and has tremendous experience to share. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding around on my bike with friends, collecting soda cans to trade in for penny candy
Erika Haynes Clinical Sales Associate
erika.haynes@stratixcorp.com
I’d like to share: I’m an RN with over 20 years of experience. I have recently transitioned to my current role. I look forward to connecting and working together to improve clinician workflow and improve patient outcomes . • I’d like to learn: Barriers that clinicians in the field are currently facing with when providing patient care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be patient, compassionate, and take time to get to know your patients and families and develop those relationships . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing in softball tournaments, with friends, and swimming
Sutter Care at Home
Concord, CA suttervna.org
Sutter Care at Home consists of five service lines: home health, hospice, home infusion, durable medical equipment, and PACE. Sutter Care at Home provides services in 28 counties in northern California to 81,000+ patients per year, generating annual revenues exceeding $650 million per year
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health – Skilled
Average Daily Census: 7,950
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $650MM
States Operating In: CA
Mark McPherson President & CEO
mark.mcpherson@sutterhealth.org
I’d like to share: Some of the unique challenges Sutter Care at Home experiences being a provider in northern California. • I’d like to learn: How you are using AI for documentation and other back-office functions. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be willing to work in any role within the organization that will help you learn how home health and hospice operates as a business, in addition to how care is provided. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing sports outside with friends
Patrick Brown CFO
patrick.brown@sutterhealth.org
I’d like to share: I’m excited to be with Sutter Care at Home. • I’d like to learn: How organizations are implementing new tools when on EPIC . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is a dynamic, challenging business. Don’t get discouraged when things don’t go well; always keep your focus on providing excellent patient care. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the pool
Sutter Care at Home
Concord, CA suttervna.org
Keith Lagnese CMO
keith.lagnese@sutterhealth.org
I’d like to share: I consider it a privilege to provide physician and operational leadership in an integrated delivery system like Sutter Health and enjoy the challenges locally and nationally in this space! • I’d like to learn: I value exploring and hearing from other’s successes and failures, sharing in transparent ways so that we can both benefit. Improving operational efficiencies and productivity are priorities . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Spend as much time in the home setting with providers and patients so that you truly understand the unique privilege that has been afforded your agency. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding bikes, play baseball and swim as much as possible. I don’t remember being indoors much at all.
Susie Tombs Senior Director, Strategy & Business Development
susan.tombs@sutterhealth.org
I’d like to share: It’s a great time to be in home-based care. We have our share of challenges, but if we can overcome them, there are lots of opportunities ahead . • I’d like to learn: Any best practices focused on improving limited capacity, especially new ideas for nurse recruitment and retention and innovations in remote patient care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is a very rewarding field with lots of opportunities. It’s a job you can feel good about, but it’s not the easiest way to make a living. Do it because you love it. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the beach!
Swift Medical
Toronto, ON swiftmedical.com
Swift Medical is the global leader in digital wound care focused on improving clinical and economic outcomes through our leading, AI-powered platform. Our customers have captured over 30 million images and 58 million assessments across the continuum of care to improve the prevention, treatment, and management of wounds
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Our digital wound care management solution will continue to build on its award-winning technology and massive dataset to support clinical decision-making, drive more preventive care, and create efficiencies in clinical documentation
Category: Wound and/or Skin Care
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice
# Employees: 70 @swiftmedical
Amy Cassata Chief Nursing Officer & Head of Success
amy.cassata@swiftmedical.com
I’d like to share: I’m a passionate life-long learner, always eager to expand my knowledge and skills. I believe that continuous learning is essential for staying ahead in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. • I’d like to learn: The latest trends in home care, particularly how technology can improve patient outcomes, streamline workflows, and show clinical and financial value . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on building strong relationships with your clients and their families. Be patient, empathetic, and reliable. Prioritize quality care and continuous learning . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Boating, waterskiing, tubing, bonfires, s’mores, and late nights with family at the lake house were perfect summer days.
Neil Sharma Chief Commercial Officer
neil.sharma@swiftmedical.com
I’d like to share: I am passionate about helping patients with chronic and acute wound care issues. Swift created the digital wound care segment ten years ago and I am proud to be working at a mission-driven company. • I’d like to learn: How home health and health plans are focusing on wound care efficiencies and cost containment in traditional and value-based care models . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: This is a very friendly, supportive industry where the common goal of improving home care runs universally in every conversation. Come with a curious mind and ask questions . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Jumping on a bicycle with my neighborhood friends, tennis, pick-up basketball, and video games were at the heart of my summer fun.
Synergy HomeCare
Tempe, AZ
synergyhomecare.com
SYNERGY HomeCare is a national franchise of non-medical home care providers dedicated to exceptional and affordable service to anyone of any age. SYNERGY HomeCare caregivers are available 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, wherever you may be. Our customers are seniors, expectant moms, those suffering from sports injuries or debilitating illnesses, and more. Founded in 2002 in Gilbert, AZ by Peter Tourian, is now the fifth largest in-home care company in the country. Tourian has been the key catalyst driving SYNERGY HomeCare’s rapid expansion –growing the company to 310+ locations from coast to coast.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
States Operating In: All 50
Charles Young CEO
charlieyoung@synergyhomecare.com
Tallio
Jacksonville Beach, FL tallio.com
Tallio is revolutionizing post-acute care with an AI-powered platform that increases margins and capacity by automating manual workflows and documentation. Designed on an open, interoperable platform, Tallio helps agencies improve compliance, elevate care quality, and thrive amidst evolving healthcare challenge
New Initiatives or Future Plans
We are expanding our AI capabilities beyond documentation and into the back office—helping providers deliver better care with fewer administrative burdens with an industry-first solution coming later this year
Category: AI/Documentation
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Care
# Employees: 11
Matt Challberg Founder & CEO
matt@tallio.co
I’d like to share: Current AI capabilities are just the beginning. The advancements on the horizon promise to be truly groundbreaking, with the potential to revolutionize healthcare in ways we can hardly imagine . • I’d like to learn: What aspects of AI do you find most concerning, and what potential applications or advancements in AI excite you the most? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: The people you meet in this industry will become lifelong friends . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: In Atlantic Beach with my best friend Nick—riding beach cruisers, catching waves, and enjoying lunch by the ocean
Team Select Home Care
Phoenix, AZ
teamselecthh.com
We are an LTC provider with over 45 offices in 14 states, primarily focused on pediatric nursing. We are pioneers in family caregiving and excel at keeping patients out of the hospital. Our mission is to change lives for the better! We advocate for families in need, treat our patients like the heroes they are, and empower our team members to make the world a better place
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 12,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $520MM
States Operating In: AZ, CA, CO, FL, IL, IN, MO, NH, OR, PA, TX, WA
@teamselecthh
Fred Johnson President & CEO
fjohnson@tshc.com
I’d like to share: We are actively seeking LTC acquisition candidates: skilled pediatric and adult private duty nursing; long-term care; private pay skilled nursing; HCBS/IHSS. • I’d like to learn: Always interested in best practices on recruiting and retaining clinicians, especially tech- and AI-driven solutions . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home Care industry needs innovation. Don’t be afraid to challenge the status quo. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Bike to park and spend day outdoors playing sports and swimming with friends. Spend paper route money on burgers, fries, and ice cream
ryan.ross@tshc.com
Teleios Collaborative Network
Hendersonville, NC teleioscn.org
Teleios Collaborative Network (TCN) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2017 by Four Seasons and Carolina Caring and co-founded by AMOREM and Mountain Valley organizations. TCN formed a Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) and shares expert leadership, industry best practices, and resources with its member organizations
Who We Serve: Hospice
Chris Comeaux President & CEO
ccomeaux@teleioscn.org
I’d like to share: My first book the Anatomy of Leadership is available on Amazon. It is my attempt to create a framework on what is leadership so we can better navigate the healthcare challenges. • I’d like to learn: About the many healthcare innovations being developed for partnership opportunities. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Your network is your net worth!
Tennr
New York, NY tennr.com
Tennr reads every document passing through healthcare practices and automates clinical and operational tasks like scheduling and qualifying patient visits to get data into your system automatically. With Tennr, practices drive more patient referrals, reduce first time denials on the front-end by 98%, and grow with 1/6th the headcount
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Tennr was founded by a team of Stanford machine learning engineers. Our document reasoning model (RaeLM™ 7B—trained on 6M+ documents) reads, reasons, and responds to your paperwork with a 97% human auto-approved rate
Category: AI/Documentation
Who We Serve: Home Health, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care # Employees: 50
Abe Griffiths COO
abe@tennr.com
I’d like to share: Tennr’s automation platform helps providers eliminate administrative bottlenecks that delay patient care and cause billing problems downstream. • I’d like to learn: What operational challenges cause the biggest pain points in your practices? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Lead with the problem you solve, not the tech you usey. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Nothing better than a day boating with the family on Lake Powell down in southern Utah
THERAPY 2000
Irving, TX t2000.com
We are a pediatric therapy company, providing physical, occupational and speech therapy services to children aged 0-21.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 10,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $80MM
States Operating In: TX
Jerre van den Bent Founder & CEO
jerre@t2000.com
I’d like to share: I am passionate about attending live opera performances. I travel all over the world to see my favorite singers. • I’d like to learn: New ideas around culture, strategic growth, and value-based care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Start with joy. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Reading a book. Not in a lonely sad way though
Three Oaks Hospice
Dallas, TX
threeoakshospice.com
Three Oaks Hospice was formed in Dallas in May, 2019 by industry veterans and has grown to 13 locations in Texas, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, and Missouri. Grounded in a collective mission to listen, care and serve, we are committed to building a best-in-class hospice company with an employee/patient centric culture
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
States Operating In: IL, KS, MI, MO, TX
Andrea Bohannon President & CEO
abohannon@threeoakshospice.com
Transcend Strategy Group
Holland, OH transcend-strategy.com
Transcend Strategy Group is a research, marketing, and sales consulting firm exclusively focused on the care-at-home industry. Over the past 20 years, we’ve helped providers grow revenues 100 to 400% by increasing census, optimizing length of stay, and concepting market-fit service offerings
New Initiatives or Future Plans
In 2025, we’re responding to increased demand and expanding our research and data analytics services. We’re also actively involved in an emerging coalition to build and protect the reputation of the healthcare at home industry
Category: Consulting – Marketing
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care # Employees: 10
Stephanie Johnston President & CEO
stephanie@transcend-strategy.com
I’d like to share: Findings of some new research on payers. • I’d like to learn: What is your mindset on organizational growth and how best to achieve it? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Seek to build your network. This community is open and ready to engage, share, and help
Treasure Health
Stuart, FL treasurehealth.org
Treasure Health is a non-profit community organization of skilled professionals and dedicated volunteers whose mission is to provide access to compassionate, caring, expert and professional care.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 950
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $75MM
States Operating In: FL
Jackie Kendrick President & CEO
jkendrick@treasurehealth.org
Spouse/Guest: Greg. • I’d like to share: I believe it is our responsibility as leaders in Home Care to embrace innovation and efficiency to ensure services are available to those we care for. • I’d like to learn: How other organizations are adapting to the changing healthcare environment. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Listen and be open to all ideas. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: My favorite summer days then and now are those spent exploring new places. I just get to explore further from home now
Trella Health
Atlanta, GA
trellahealth.com
Trella Health’s industry-leading market intelligence and integrated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform empowers post-acute care providers with actionable insights to identify growth opportunities, optimize workflows, and gain performance visibility
New Initiatives or Future Plans
As Trella Health continues to diversify its dataset with more sources, the future brings advanced trending and predictive data—personalized and automated—to help your business understand its past, present, and future with confidence
Category: Data Analytics
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care # Employees: 150
Scott Tapp CEO stapp@trellahealth.com
I’d like to share: As value-based care reshapes healthcare, I’d like to share Trella Health’s commitment to supporting providers in aligning clinical and operational strategies to thrive on their path to VBC in 2030. • I’d like to learn: What keeps leaders up at night—whether it’s expanding market opportunities, navigating regulatory pressures, or improving efficiency—and how does data help solve these challenges ? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Stay curious. Curiosity drives innovation, reveals hidden opportunities, and helps you adapt to an ever-evolving industry. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: As a kid, I practically lived at Six Flags two to three days a week during the summer months and spent the rest of my time on my BMX bike
Kathy Ford Chief Product Officer kford@trellahealth.com
I’d like to share: My passion for using technology to simplify complexity. The future lies in unifying data—aggregating clinical, operational, and other sources to create actionable intelligence. • I’d like to learn: How providers are planning to use technology, such as AI, to create more intelligent workflows and uncover opportunities for innovation to improve patient and business outcomes . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on building a strong foundation in both data and technology. Understanding how to leverage insights effectively will set you up for long-term success . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Summers, for me, were all about the outdoors. I’ve always been an animal lover, enjoying riding and training horses, while staying active with water skiing and playing soccer
Trella Health
Jess Chew GM, PAC Provider Growth
jchew@trellahealth.com
I’d like to share: Data is the foundation for strategic growth, but its sheer volume can overwhelm leaders. Success lies in simplifying and focusing on the most impactful insights to drive better decisions and outcomes . • I’d like to learn: The first-hand stories behind the data — gaining insights into the needs, challenges, and trends that numbers alone can’t convey. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: As the post-acute care business model matures, look to other industries for lessons learned, such as go-to-market strategies, technology adoption, and operational efficiency. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On family road trips, like a two-week adventure we once took to Canada—just exploring without a real agenda.
Trinity Health At Home
Springfield, PA
trinityhealthathome.org
Trinity Health At Home is a large faith-based home health organization providing both Medicare and hospice services.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 100,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $250MM
States Operating In: CA, CT, DE, GA, IL, IN, IA, MI, PA
Dan
Drake
President & CEO, Continuing Care
dan.drake@trinity-health.org
Ruth Martynowicz COO
rmartynowicz@mercyhealth.org
I’d like to share: Trinity Health has made safety a core value for both patients and colleagues. • I’d like to learn: Successful strategies for keeping colleagues and patients safe in the community. Some of the success stories around integrating onto a new health care EMR. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Become extremely knowledgeable in conditions of participation . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Going down to the Jersey shore
Don Mathews VP Hospice Operations
donald.mathews@samc.com
I’d like to share: Excited to be attending my first Home Care 100. • I’d like to learn: The opportunities around how AI can help our teams be more efficient . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Healthcare and hospice more specifically is about empathy and putting the patient and family first . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Spending the day out in the sun. Any activity as long as I was outside
Partner
TwinMed
Santa Fe Springs, CA
twinmed.com
At TwinMed, we are dedicated to supporting Home Health and Hospice with integrity and innovation by providing quality products, operational efficiencies, and financial solutions. We aim to enhance care and affordability. Our commitment to lasting relationships and a culture of respect defines who we are and how we serve
New Initiatives or Future Plans
TwinMed is enhancing our ten medical surgical distribution centers nationwide for greater efficiency, tailored to home health and hospice. We continue to customize payer-side solutions to help providers navigate reimbursements and streamline operations
Category: Medical Supply Distribution
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 450
Matthew VanZelst President mvanzelst@twinmed.com
Scott Adams VP Home Care
sadams@twinmed.com
I’d like to share: Working in the post-acute market for 15+ years, I am passionate about driving transformative solutions that deliver measurable results . • I’d like to learn: Attendee’s priorities, challenges, and opportunities. Whether it’s understanding your goals, or exploring collaborations, I value the insights that help us align our efforts to support your success • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on building strong relationships—this industry thrives on trust and collaboration. Stay curious and always seek to learn, as the landscape is constantly evolving
TwinMed
Santa Fe Springs, CA twinmed.com
Billy Bindel VP Hospice Sales
bbindel@twinmed.com
I’d like to share: The cost savings opportunities, improvement in patient care, knowledge of the industry and working with a true partner is what TwinMed brings to the table. • I’d like to learn: What challenges are you facing as an organization that vendors can help resolve? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Find a seasoned mentor, learn as much as you can from that person, listen, take notes, be honest and don’t be afraid to evolve, when the industry changes keep up . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding my bike with the neighbor kids then playing baseball at the end of the day
UKG
Lowell, MA ukg.com
At UKG, we understand that when you take care of your staff, you take care of everyone. Our healthcare tailored technology helps support you on your mission to deliver quality patient and resident care. UKG’s AI-powered HR, pay, time, and culture solutions provides your workforce with the flexibility and autonomy they need and expect
New Initiatives or Future Plans
UKG Talk is a mobile-first solution designed for the frontline workforce. From recognition to critical alerts, UKG Talk enables organizations to stay connected with their staff tending to patients and residents on the floor or during home visits
Category: Human Capital Management
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 14,000 @UKGInc
Darlene Reinke VP Post Acute & Senior Living
darlene.reinke@ukg.com
I’d like to share: UKG clients are embracing our culture-driven Human Capital Management and Workforce Management solutions that inspires your people, increases trust and engagement, and improves business outcomes . • I’d like to learn: What business growth strategies are you embracing? What strategies are you leveraging to continuously build trust and resilience within your organization? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Compassion. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Being outside swimming (not bailing hay), eating fresh tomatoes from the garden, and spending time with my grandparents learning wood working, canning, and sewing
Dave Schleicher Account Executive
dave.schleicher@ukg.com
I’d like to share: A great work culture isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s a strategic imperative. By leading through culture and innovating with purpose, you can unlock the true value of your organization. • I’d like to learn: How organizations are creating a people-centric culture where your employees can grow and thrive. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build a support network. Connect with other home care professionals to share experiences, advice, and support. This can be invaluable in helping you build a fulfilling career. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swim in the pool with my friends
UNC Health
Chapel Hill, NC uncmedicalcenter.org/uncmc
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Average Daily Census: 14,200
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $75MM
States Operating In: NC
Barbara Knott VP Continuing Care Services
barbara.knott@unchealth.unc.edu
Spouse/Guest: Patrick Shiel. • I’d like to share: John F. Kennedy once wrote, “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” It’s true that good leaders never stop growing. No matter how much they’ve learned or how confident they are. • I’d like to learn: Digital fluency. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always remember why you went into this line of service provision. Be innovative. Never lose sight of the people at home you do this for. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Down the shore.
UnityPoint at Home
West Des Moines, IA
unitypointathome.org
UnityPoint at Home provides home health, hospice, palliative care, DME, infusion pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, and acute hospital care at home. Our largest focus for growth is in pharmacy and contracting with Medicare Advantage for models of care that allow us to decrease dependence on PDGM-like payments
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 4,500
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $256MM
States Operating In: IL, IA, NE, WI
Jenn Ofelt President
jennifer.ofelt@unitypoint.org
I’d like to share: Employee engagement and retention strategies. • I’d like to learn: Growth in virtual visit models and using LLM/AI to improve clinician efficiency (i.e. dictation while driving between patients). • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Don’t give up—the rewards are worth the work
Vesta Healthcare
New York, NY vestahealthcare.com
Vesta Healthcare is a virtual-care medical group for people with home care. As an independent provider, we bridge the gap between primary care and home care.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home-Based Primary Care
Average Daily Census: 15,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $153MM
States Operating In: AL, FL, IA, KY, MI, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA
Renee Picard Walsh Executive Consultant
rpw@vestahealthcare.com
I’d like to share: Medicare FFS, covered by payers MA and Medicaid, open new opportunities for home-based services. Home care providers can access reimbursement through partnership with primary care and qualified providers . • I’d like to learn: Is your agency using any type of virtual care and if so how? What is the impact on reduction of ER visits and hospitalizations ? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build relationships. Leverage the knowledge of your new colleagues in the industry. Dont be afraid to ask questions and understand the caliber of their expertise . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: From Westerly, Rhode Island to the Jersey Shore to the White Mountains and boating on the Long Island Sound. My summer consistenly involved beach and camping with cousins
VIA Health Partners
Charlotte, NC viahp.org
VIA Health Partners operates in North and South Carolina serving upwards of 40 counties and over 1,650 Hospice ADC and 2,700 Palliative ADC. We plan to expand geographically and organically with a continued focus on local and regional risk based partnerships. Recently celebrating 47 years the organization is the largest not-for-profit provider in the Carolinas
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 1,650
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $135MM
States Operating In: NC, SC
Dean Forman VP & Chief Strategy Officer
formand@viahp.org
I’d like to share: VIA Health Partners is a growing geographically and organically. We have an amazing team with an excellent organizational culture. • I’d like to learn: The sources, talent, skill, and background related to BI talent required for successful risk and pop health cost data mining and decision-making . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Patients and families will provide amazing insight into your organization. Seek them out and engage with them about their experience while in your care . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the Jersey Shore.
ViaQuest
Dublin, OH viaquestinc.com
ViaQuest provides services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, people with behavioral health issues, and people needing hospice services.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 7,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $200MM
States Operating In: IN, OH, PA
Rich Johnson President & CEO
rich.johnson@viaquestinc.com
Spouse/Guest: Julie. • I’d like to share: How we are using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to decrease manual processes and speed up efficiency. • I’d like to learn: The latest AI applications. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn how to deal with continuous headwinds . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing sports outside (often in the street) until it was too dark to see
Visiting Angels | Living Assistance Services
Fort
Myers, FL visitingangels.com
Living Assistance Services was founded in 1998. We provide non medical home care services in all 50 states with an international presence in the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and the Republic of Korea
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $1B
States Operating In: All 50, Canada
Cathy Berg Associate SVP Operations
cathy@visitingangels.com
I’d like to share: I’m excited for the opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and gain insights into industry trends, best practices, and cuttingedge technologies. • I’d like to learn: Insights, strategies, and business intelligence to skillfully navigate the ever-evolving landscape . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Build strong, trusting relationships with clients, their families, your caregivers and leadership team is the foundation of success in this field . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Swimming, biking, playing tennis and enjoying plenty of ice cream.
Visiting Nurse Health System
Atlanta, GA
vnhs.org
Visiting Nurse Health System is the oldest non-profit home health/hospice organization in Georgia. This year we celebrate 75 years of service to our community. Our business lines include home health, hospice, palliative care, community care at home, and private home care. We have a strong growth strategy to deepen our healthcare footprint in Georgia through quality and value
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 7,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $60MM
States Operating In: GA
Dorothy Davis President & CEO
dorothy.davis@vnhs.org
Jacqueline Blair Chief Innovation Officer
jacqueline.ralph-blair@vnhs.org
I’d like to share: Visiting Nurse Health System’s mission is to improve the lives of the patients we serve. We are committed to providing an exceptional experience to our community, regardless of zip code. • I’d like to learn: VNHS is embracing technology and innovation to enhance the clinician-experience while streamlining processes; interested in sharing strategies. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Invest in expanding your clinical, operational, and human capital knowledge base of this industry to best serve our patients—it’s a humbling professional experience. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Spending time with Mom, Dad, and my two brothers all together vacaing in Antigua—the best!
The Vistria Group
Shoreview, MN thevistriagroup.com
The Vistria Group is a private investment firm that is partnered with providers, support solutions, and enablers across home care—home health, hospice, personal care, home-based pharmacy, clinical decision support, and MSOs to help drive the next generation of home-based care.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
At our post-acute MSO business, Tango, we are seeking to drive the next generation of interaction with MA through outcome-based and episodic reimbursement models to help bridge the gap with FFS
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care Palliative Care
# Employees: 100
Tom Maxwell Operating Partner
tom@maxwellhca.com
I’d like to share: I’m focusing on key areas: patient engagement, recruiting/ retention, process optimization, managing at-risk patients, and using AI/machine learning to drive outcomes and smarter decision-making . • I’d like to learn: Best practices for managing Medicare Advantage and other payors, including strategies for negotiating contracts, optimizing reimbursement, and improving value-based care outcomes . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Focus on technology that delivers clear ROI. Start with tools that streamline operations, improve patient outcomes, or reduce costs. Measure the impact and optimize often. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: As a kid, I spent summer days working on the ranch and helping with farming. Whether tending to animals, fixing fences, or riding horses, I loved the hard work!
Vista Care
Sheboygan, WI vistacare.org
Family-owned and operated for 30 years, Vista Care is a non-profit serving eight states
Tax Status: For Profit
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $75MM
States Operating In: CA, CO, IL, NV, NM, SD, UT, WI
Emilie Bartolucci Chief People Officer
emiliebartolucci@vistacare.org
I’d like to share: Working the home and community based services space has been the highlight of my career and I look forward to connecting with others . • I’d like to learn: How others are tackling workforce issues of engagement, education, and retention, especially as it concerns rural markets and those primarily Medicaid funded. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Home care is a special and close knit community. Take time to connect with your peers and colleagues for thought partnership, help, etc. We all can learn something from each other. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Visiting the beach, spending time with friends, and family and enjoying the lazy days
Vital Home Care & Community Home Healthcare NPO
Ramsey, NJ vitalhomecare.com
Vital Homecare & Community Home Healthcare’s goal is providing unique solutions to allow patients to receive the highest quality care in the comfort of their own homes. We believe in the power of humility, positivity, and authenticity. These core values guide our approach to providing exceptional care and service
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 4,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $170MM
States Operating In: NY, NC
Michael Ford VP Corporate Business Development michael.ford@vitalhomecare.com
I’d like to share: Vital HomeCare in North Carolina and Community Home Healthcare in New York provides non-skilled home care services to clients in New York and North Carolina. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Once you find why you chose this great industry, use your passion to help those we serve to thrive in their homes
VITAS Healthcare
Cincinnati, OH vitas.com
VITAS has more than 45 years of experience in hospice care and is the nation’s largest singlesource provider of end-of-life care.The name VITAS is pronounced VEE-tahs and is derived from the Latin word for “lives.”11,342 VITAS professionals provide care to 21,389 patients daily throughout 15 U.S. states and DC.
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 22,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $1.7B
States Operating In: AL, CA, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, IL, KS, NJ, OH, PA, TX, VA, WI
Nick Westfall Chairman & CEO
nick.westfall@vitas.com
I’d like to share: We look forward to once again being part of the conference and our entire team whom is attending always utilizes the conference to network and collaborate to advance the mission of VITAS. • I’d like to learn: How you envision the community-based care space evolving over the next five years . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Spend as much time as you can with your caregivers whom are out in the community each and everyday. Also, roll up your sleeves to understand the details for your sector. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing sports, any sport
Joel Wherley President & COO
joel.wherley@vitas.com
My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the lake
Alex Fernandez EVP & CFO
alexander.fernandez@vitas.com
VITAS Healthcare
Cincinnati, OH vitas.com
Bryan Wysong
EVP Operations
bryan.wysong@vitas.com
I’d like to share: Looking forward to seeing everyone and catching up. • I’d like to learn: How providers and risk-bearing entities are approaching B2B communitybased palliative care arrangements, including total cost of care data . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Not everything that appears simple is actually simple. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing outside until dark
Erika Gaudio
SVP Sales
erika.gaudio@vitas.com
I’d like to share: Looking forward to making connections to best help our senior population. • I’d like to learn: Innovations in the hospice space. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Always do what’s best for the patient.
Brandon Stock
SVP Innovation & Strategy
brandon.stock@vitas.com
Vivie
Alexandria, MN knutenelson.org
Knute Nelson/Walker Methodist serves in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. Services include short-term rehab, out-patient therapy, nursing home, assisted living, memory care, independent living, home health, home care, hospice, population health, and wellness programs
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Average Daily Census: 1,350
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $50MM
States Operating In: MN, ND, WI
Mark
Anderson President & CEO
mark.anderson@knutenelson.org
Spouse/Guest: Sally. • I’d like to share: We are in the middle of building out a population health service line. • I’d like to learn: About managed care contracts and appropriate reimbursement in those contracts . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: That there be continuous change and challenges on regulatory and financial fronts. However, the key to success is focusing on employees and personcentered care. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Going to the city pool in the small town of Velva, North Dakota. All my buddies would head there almost every day.
Katie Perry
COO & EVP
katie.perry@knutenelson.org
Spouse/Guest: Chad. • I’d like to share: I love to learn from others—what works to help support the team and optimizes talent and financial performance in our ever-evolving industry. • I’d like to learn: Success stories with value-based payment models, emerging care delivery systems that enhance value and financial performance. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Lean in and continuously learn to ensure relevancy in customer’s minds and experiences
VNA Health Group
Neptune, NJ vnahg.org
Visiting Nurse Association Health Group (VNAHG) began in 1912 to improve prison conditions and achieve a more humane approach to public assistance. It has grown to one of the largest nonprofit home health- and community-based agencies in the country. Growth was achieved through strategic partnerships in the New Jersey and Ohio service areas
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
Average Daily Census: 15,000
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $250MM
States Operating In: NJ, OH
Kevin Rogers CFO
kevin.rogers@vnahg.org
I’d like to share: We must continue to fight the battle for our patient and not get discouraged. We need to constantly make the legislators aware that home care is part of the solution, not part of the problem. • I’d like to learn: How to manage the workforce shortage. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Take care of your patients, take care of your employees, and the bottom line will take care of itself . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: On the beach with my brother and our friends
VNA of the Treasure Coast
Vero Beach, FL vnatc.com
VNA of the Treasure Coast is a not-for-profit home health, hospice, private care, and community health services provider focused on delivering the highest quality whole person care.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
Average Daily Census: 800
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $40MM
States Operating In: FL
Lundy Fields President & CEO
lfields@vnatc.com
I’d like to share: Embracing the servant leadership model and the challenges of implementing it. • I’d like to learn: Successful strategies for increasing staff engagement. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Never take yourself too seriously! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding dirt bikes and surfing!
VNS Health
New York, NY vnshealth.org
For over 130 years, VNS Health has led the way as an innovator in-home and community health care. We apply our expertise, compassion, and commitment to provide and manage care for millions of individuals who want to live, age, and heal where they feel most comfortable—in their homes, connected to family and community
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Care/Personal Care
Average Daily Census: 55,000
States Operating In: NY
Daniel Savitt President & CEO
daniel.savitt@vnshealth.org
I’d like to share: Clinical capacity continues to be the most critical barrier to success, while improving patient experience is the greatest opportunity for us and our industry. • I’d like to learn: How their organizations are using AI and related technologies to reduce the admin burden on clinical staff and improve on documentation effectiveness. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Spend time in the field, then understand the regulations and payment structures and how they all fit together. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Outside.
Provider
VNS Health
New York, NY vnshealth.org
Brenda Riordan
SVP Home Health & Care Management Solutions
brenda.riordan@vnshealth.org
I’d like to share: My passion for innovation and excellence in home based care delivery to redesign healthcare to improve access to services especially in underserved communities. • I’d like to learn: About the latest innovation and technologic advances that can improve both the patient and clinician experience as we leverage AI and other advancements to improve the delivery and quality of care . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be sure to spend time with patients and clinicians in the home. Field visits are essential to truly understand the business of caring for individual in their home . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: At the beach. Raised on the east coast and enjoyed many summers at Long Beach Island in New Jersey and Connecticut and Rhode Island beaches. PBJ sandwiches on the beach were the best!
Catherine Schaefer VP Quality
catherine.schaefer@vnshealth.org
VNS Westchester
White Plains, NY vns.org
VNS Westchester is the largest and only independent not-for-profit, Medicare-certified home healthcare agency in Westchester that also serves the Bronx, Dutchess, Putnam, and Rockland Counties. VNSW at Home, an affiliate of VNS Westchester, provides certified Home Health Aides on an hourly or live-in basis to help seniors and others in need of assistance with the tasks of daily living. We also offer VNSW Community Care Navigation, Inc. which provides comprehensive life planning, care navigation and wellness services in the comfort of your home in-person or virtually.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health
States Operating In: NY
Jennifer Brullo President & CEO
jbrullo@vns.org
Well Care Health
Raleigh, NC
wellcarehealth.com
Family-owned and operated home health and hospice home care provider. Delivering five-star rated quality of care to the 44 counties we serve in North Carolina and South Carolina. Passionate about our mission of “keeping our communities healthy, happy, and at home.”
Tax Status: For Profit
Primary Organization Type: Home Health - Skilled
Average Daily Census: 4,300
Est. 2025 Home Care Revenue: $103MM
States Operating In: NC, SC
Zac Long CEO & General Counsel
zlong@wellcarehealth.com
I’d like to share: Organizational development and growth strategy as a longstanding family-owned operator. • I’d like to learn: Successful payer relations strategies, including measuring/communicating care value and models that align with payer star ratings and HEDIS. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Find your passion and be intentional about building a network of strong relationships. Home-based care is a large, evolving industry with many career tracks and opportunities . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Oyster roast and boat ride!
Rebecca Higbee COO
rebecca.higbee@wellcarehealth.com
WellSky
Overland Park, KS wellsky.com
WellSky provides software, services, and analytics to support high quality care outcomes and growth across the health and community care continuum. Our next-level referral and resource management solutions power more efficient, cost-effective care, improving agency operations and empowering the coordination of better care for more patients
New Initiatives or Future Plans
WellSky has developed a suite of artificial intelligence-powered tools to increase operational and clinician efficiencies, reducing documentation time and errors and automating forms, while increasing patient-provider interaction
Category: Enterprise Software
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 3,000
@wellskyhealth
Tim Ashe
Chief Clinical Officer
timothy.ashe@wellsky.com
I’d like to share: We are working hard on deploying solutions in partnership with our clients that align patient flow across the continuum and that drive quality and growth. • I’d like to learn: Looking forward to catching up with colleagues on how they are thinking growth, value-based contracting, automation, and AI in relation to driving value. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Learn with boots on the ground in the home, understand the value that our industry drives at the patient level, build value with the patient at the core of your organization. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Playing soccer, playing basketball, and hanging with my friends
Wes
Little
Chief Analytics Officer & General Manager, WellSky Home
wes.little@wellsky.com
I’d like to share: The results we’re seeing from home-based care providers leveraging AI to improve outcomes and operations. • I’d like to learn: What providers believe is ahead in the home-based care market as we transition to value-based care. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Take the time to learn the interesting history of this market, both the good times and the bad. History tends to repeat itself! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I grew up in Texas, so a great summer day typically revolved around staying close to the water!
WellSky
Overland Park, KS wellsky.com
Kraig McKinley SVP Post-Acute
kraig.mckinley@wellsky.com
I’d like to share: WellSky provides award-winning solutions, services, and analytics for providers in the home. I welcome any opportunity to meet with our amazing clients and those we have yet to serve. • I’d like to learn: How you are addressing improvements to care in the home, such as patient intake, your growth and compliance, in addition to ongoing orchestration of care services . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Never stop learning—nothing comes out of the brain that doesn’t go in first. This is a wide business with so many parts that you can’t be an expert on all. Pick your lane
Steve Molinari
SVP Sales
steve.molinari@wellsky.com
Spouse/Guest: Carrie. • I’d like to share: How Corridor and Wellsky are coming together to be a true value-added partner to the industry. • I’d like to learn: Top tech initiatives they are considering this year. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: It’s a small world! • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Living at the beach or lake
Dan Weaver
SVP Operations
dan.weaver@wellsky.com
I’d like to share: WellSky helps home-based providers take a strategic position within the care ecosystem. We’re developing cutting-edge referral, resource management, and AI tools that drive value-based care. • I’d like to learn: How does your organization anticipate incorporating AI throughout both your care delivery continuum and back-office operations? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Remember your “why.” You’ll earn success, and the setbacks along the way won’t deter you . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Working alongside my grandfather on his Wyoming ranch. It was all work for him and pure adventure for me.
Wilshire Health & Community Services
San Luis Obispo, CA wilshirehcs.org
Wilshire is a not-for-profit company that provides home-based care services including home health, hospice, social services/community-based programs, physician practice—headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California. We have a for-profit subsidiary with offices in Texas and California providing revenue cycle management, consulting and other services nationwide.
Tax Status: Not for Profit
Primary Organization Type: Hospice
States Operating In: All 50
Tricia Smith President & CEO
tsmith@wilshirehcs.org
WorldView, Ltd.
Omaha, NE
worldviewltd.com
WorldView is the leading workflow automation solution integrated with your EMR. We help agencies recognize better financial results and decrease document processing time on average by 90% through world-class orders, intake, and medical records management
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Introducing WorldView’s Referral AI, designed to reduce intake time and improve referral accuracy. Empowering providers with faster decision-making and seamless document management, driving efficiency and enhancing patient care outcomes
Category: Document Management
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 150
@WorldViewLtd
Jared Robey Chief Revenue Officer
jrobey@worldviewltd.com
Spouse/Guest: Lindsay. • I’d like to share: WorldView is laser focused on providing affordable value for our clients through new product features and additional partnerships that result in strong agency relationships. • I’d like to learn: How have you used AI within your agency in the past 12 months? Where do you see adding it in 2025? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Be genuine, curious, and continuously learn from mistakes. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Being at the racetrack riding dirt bikes and cooling off at the pool after!
Zebra Technologies
Lincolnshire , IL zebra.com/us/en.html
Zebra Technologies is a global leader in enterprise mobile computing, data capture, barcode printing, and radio frequency identification devices. The company has over 128 offices in 55 countries and more than 10,000 partners across 180 countries. Zebra’s customers include over 80% of the Fortune 500
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Enterprise healthcare purpose-built technology including healthcare-grade tablets, smart phones, mobile printers, and lone worker safety communication solutions for clinicians and patients
Category: Point of Care Technology
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care, Palliative Care
# Employees: 10,000
@ZebraTechnology
Katie Johnson
Senior
Sales Manager, NA Healthcare
kjohnson@zebra.com
I’d like to share: Zebra Technologies is excited to be back at Home Care 100 and looking forward to connecting with agencies and software partners on our mobile technology offerings for smart phones and tablets. • I’d like to learn: Pain points attendees are having with their technology solutions and what they would like to see in communication, collaboration, and documentation tech to come . • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Explore technology solutions to help make your staff more efficient and profitable. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Boating with my family on Missouri lakes and rivers
Jackie Bollmann Sales Manager, Healthcare
jbollmann@zebra.com
I’d like to share: Zebra Technologies is excited to be back at Home Care 100 and looking forward to connecting with agencies and software partners on our mobile technology offerings for smart phones and tablets. • I’d like to learn: What type of technology is most important to your organization? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Explore technology solutions to help make your staff more efficient and profitable. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: In the pool or outdoors in nature.
Partner Ziegler
Chicago, IL
ziegler.com
Ziegler’s Healthcare Investment Banking team is focused on delivering best-in-class advisory and financing solutions for companies and organizations across the healthcare industry. In our core practice areas of home health, hospice and home care, information technology, hospitals and senior living, Ziegler is one of the most active M&A firms
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Focused on M&A through sell-side, buy-side, recapitalization/restructuring, equity private placement and strategic partnering services
Category: Consulting – Financial Advisory & Valuation
Who We Serve: Home Health, Hospice, Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 120
@Ziegler_Co
Chris Hendrickson Senior Managing Director
chendrickson@ziegler.com
I’d like to share: Demand for home services will continue to evolve in regards to depth and complexity. Diversification (into areas like mental health) will be a means to counter certain rate and competitive pressures . • I’d like to learn: How much are parties using intelligent automation to automate repetitive tasks, such as eligibility verification, authorization management, billing, etc.? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Scalabililty and favorable growth is obtained through centralization and health informatics. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Traveling acoss the U.S. visiting various state parks and enjoying the outdoors
Kenneth Benton Director
kbenton@ziegler.com
I’d like to share: The comment we are hearing frequently from potential buyers is that they have a strong interest in quality assets and they have not been seeing a lot of quality assets recently. • I’d like to learn: What technologies have you been able to implement over the past couple years and what are you focused on currently? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Do the “right” thing from a clinical and compliance standpoint and you will stand out . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Going to a Mets game
Zingage
New York, NY zingage.com
Zingage transforms how home-based providers support their teams by fostering meaningful engagement, celebrating great work, and strengthening relationships. By making work more rewarding and purposeful, we help providers reduce turnover, improve compliance, and free up valuable time to focus on what matters most—delivering exceptional care and building lasting connections.
New Initiatives or Future Plans
Zingage is launching our expert template library to automate industry best practices. Think onboarding, responding to turnover risks, addressing performance issues, and more. All pre-built so you can tailor to your business, not start from scratch
Category: Workforce Engagement Platform
Who We Serve: Home Health, Home Care/Personal Care
# Employees: 12
David Knack Head of Growth david@zingage.com
I’d like to share: How grateful I am to be in this industry. I’ve been really impressed with how collaborative and passionate the leaders in this industry are. I’m excited to meet new people and solve problems together. • I’d like to learn: What strategies are you employing to address turnover in your business? We’re working on a library of workflows and industry best practices to address turnover. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Ask for help. Don’t reinvent the wheel. There are really talented people who are extremely generous with their time. Build a good network and choose partners wisely • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I lived for summers growing up: a lot of baseball, playing outside with the neighborhood kids, and going to the beach
Carla Davis
carladavishughes@yahoo.com
Spouse/Guest: Jeff. • I’d like to share: The importance of benefit advocacy, both locally and on the national level. • I’d like to learn: How would you expand the hospice benefit to break through 50% utilization? • My advice for someone starting out in home care: It is always about the people • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: A combination of being on the beach with my mom, crabbing in the inlet with my brother, and fishing on the pier with my dad
Lynn Jones Retired Hospital & Home Health Executive
lynncjones77@gmail.com
I’d like to share: I am excited to get back together with my home health friends and colleagues after being away from the industry since my retirement five years ago (how time flies!). • I’d like to learn: I am always interested in learning how home health has been able to demonstrate value, and to be in a position to share in the savings from this contribution to better patient outcomes and lower cost • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Listen and learn from home health staff; PCP’s; hospitals; SNF’s; insurance; other community providers. This will position you positively support your team and add value. • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: I loved spending days on the family farm, with my dog and working on all facets of the farm operations.
Jennifer Sheets CEO & Founder, Carezzi & Home Care 100 Intelligence Group Executive Advisor
jsheets@carezzi.com
I’d like to share: I’m excited to introduce Carezzi, a platform transforming home healthcare by connecting patients, clinicians, and agencies in real-time, making care more accessible, flexible, and patient-centered . • I’d like to learn: Creative strategies for leveraging technology and workforce development to improve care delivery and how others are adapting to rapid changes in healthcare demands. • My advice for someone starting out in home care: Prioritize empathy and adaptability. Success in home care comes from truly understanding the needs of patients and finding innovative ways to meet those needs with excellence . • My favorite way to spend a summer day as a kid: Riding horses, caring for animals, or enjoying outdoor adventures like swimming, fishing, and sports—anything active and connected to nature.