Home Health Care News October 20, 2020
M&A activity across home health, hospice and in-home care appeared to be “business as usual” at the start of 2020. COVID-19 froze the market in March, however, causing both buyers and sellers to bide their time.
But dealmaking action is finally starting to heat up again, multiple M&A experts confirmed to Home Health Care News.
In the past few weeks alone, for example, Charter Health Care Group announced its purchases of Vitality Home Healthcare and Heartwood Home Health & Hospice. Meanwhile, Bridges Health Services announced a series of mergers with various home health and hospice providers. Most recently, Chicago-based private equity firm the Vistria Group agreed to sell St. Croix Hospice to an affiliate of investment company HIG Capital.
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