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• The Illinois Association of Medical Equipment Services (IAMES; Chicago) has reached a short-term management agreement with the Illinois Home Care Council (IHCC; Chicago). IHCC staff will be managing IAMES’ operations in the following areas: respose to member calls and other inquiries; production of IAMES’ Intelligence; IAMES’ monthly newsletter; and regulatory and legislative advocacy on the state level. IAMES President Jim Rankin said the organization is "confident that such a collaboration is a positive step in fulfilling IAMES’ long-term vision."
• VNS HomeCare of Narragansett has named George Laban president/CEO, reported The Providence Journal-Bulletin of Rhode Island. Laban’s appointment followed a nation-wide search for the agency. Laban was previously president/CEO of the South Shore Visiting Nures Association and Hospice of the South Shore. VNS officials said Laban, who will complete the partnership between VNS and South County Hospital, was hired with the intention of becoming the senior administrator of the combined entity.
• Liberty Home Care (Wilmington, NC), a company that wanted to break into home care, has bought the banrupt Comprehensive Home Health Care (CHHC; Wilmington, NC) for $7.1 million after being forced to bid more than its original offer of $4 million. Liberty, which took over CHHC Jan. 1, is part of a family of companies that includes Liberty Healthcare Services, which operates six nursing homes and two assisted living facilities in Wilmington, Whiteville, Clinton, and Jacksonville, NC. With 600 employees before the purchase, the Liberty companies more than doubled in size by adding CHHC’s roughly 650 employees. CHHC, which will become Liberty Home Care, has 13 branches in North Carolina and South Carolina. The new company expects to serve nearly 8,000 patients and make 300,000 visits this year.
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