Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Great Lakes-NHHC-Jordan Merger Renamed Elara
Published on Fri Jul 20, 2018
The newly formed company that combines Great Lakes Caring, National Home Health Care, and Jordan Health Services will be named Elara Caring, Elara says in a release. In April, the health care companies announced they would merge into a 15-state chain with 221 locations (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXVII, No. 16).
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