Hospice News June 16, 2022
More hospitals and health systems are stepping into the home-based hospice space, often seeing joint ventures as a promising route to a return on their investment.
While there are several factors driving facility-based health care organizations to eye home-based care, more than anything, hospices and other providers should simply be aware that the “normal” look of M&A activity in their spaces is changing.
“You’re seeing different types of transactions taking place in hospice and home health,” Mark Kulik, managing director at M&A advisory firm The Braff Group, told Hospice News. “And it’s indicative that business is not going as usual in the last decade.”
In part, the trend of more hospitals and health systems in hospice is a response to...