The home health care workforce shortage is restricting PE dealmaking, experts suggest.
That’s especially been the case over the last year and a half, as micro and macro economic headwinds have also affected both agencies and PE firms, reports Home Health Care News.
“When you think about it, it takes the margin on a business that was already feeling some reimbursement pressure and just compresses that,” Rebecca Springer, senior health care analyst at Pitchbook, told Home Health Care News. “In this environment, the operational quality of the teams that are in place that are able to upscale their workforce, rotate and attract new staff – some of those basic things that are needed to do good business – becomes a really big differentiator in this climate.” Read more.
