Jet Health plans to continue expanding its hospice operations to other locations following its San Antonio-based Signal Home Health & Hospice acquisition, according to Home Health Care News.
“Having multiple service lines in each of the marketplaces we serve allows us to place patients in the appropriate level of care based upon their needs,” Jet Health CEO Stacie Bratcher told Home Health Care News. “[It also allows us to] prevent the gaps in care that can happen if patients have to move from agency to agency, where information may not be able to be shared seamlessly.”
The new Texas-based facility serves as Jet Health's seventh purchase since its founding in 2016. According to Bratcher, the company hopes to ultimately become a "one stop shop" for a larger continuum of home-based care.
The co-locating strategy, similar to other home-based care providers, will allow the company, partially owned by SV Health Investors and Health Enterprise Partners, to provide an abundance of additional home health offerings. Besides Texas, Jet Health currently operates in New Mexico, Colorado and Idaho.
Jet Health plans to continue considering acquisition deals, specifically interested in partnering with home health businesses with 250 or fewer patients that treat complex clinical patients.
“A lot of times, [these patients] are overlooked because they have a lot of the social determinants that need to be addressed,” Bratcher told Home Health News. “We look at agencies that have a history of servicing those patients well.”
The brand’s ultimate goal is to grow steadily, instead of solely becoming the biggest provider in the region. Its most recent developments include implementing remote patient monitoring as a high-tech care delivery model.
“[It’s] giving our patients and their families control over the information surrounding their physical well-being and health,” Bratcher said, according to Home Health Care News. “We’re really working with them to be the leaders of their health care.”
