Category: News

Joel Theisen, Lifespark CEO, is not a fan of the word “care,” but that’s not because he doesn’t have a lot of it. As an RN, he saw firsthand the shortcomings of the healthcare system in the United States, and that’s why he’s on a mission with his company, Lifespark, to reimagine it.  In a […]

Dr. Wendy Laine, Lifespark Medical Director and lead physician on Lifespark’s Urgent Response Services team, joined Susie Jones for her Sunday morning WCCO Radio Health Show. They talked about urgent response services and why serving seniors at home is a better option than a busy ER, especially during flu season. Listen in…

Lifespark CEO, Joel Theisen is at it again sharing his opinion on why medicine is bad at customer service. His article, which appeared as the headline in MedPageToday, is garnering a stir among readers who are weighing in on the discussion. “American business is delivering one of history’s greatest revolutions in customer convenience – except […]

Lifespark CEO, Joel Theisen, joined Kim Elliott, Senior VP and Chief Nursing Officer for Brookdale Senior Living, and Tom Grape, CEO of Benchmark Senior Living, for a panel discussion with Austin Montgomery, reporter for Senior Housing News for their SHN+ Talk series. The trio covered topics on value-based care (VBC), the challenges to VBC growth, […]

In an Opinion piece in MarketWatch, Lifespark CEO Joel Theisen, BSN, RN, shares why putting together the right senior care team can make things a little easier. In his experience, he has seen how palliative care decisions can tear families apart knowing how hard end-of-life decisions can be. With Medicare open enrollment starting on Oct. […]

In my experience, older adults tend to get sent to hospital emergency rooms to make sure there’s nothing seriously wrong,” said Leah Castle, RN, BSN, a nurse with Lifespark. “As a Mobile Urgent Responder, I can rule out those non-emergencies in the senior’s home and help them avoid an unnecessary trip to the ER.” With early intervention, Leah […]

Lifespark CEO, Joel Theisen, BSN, RN, joined Scott Tittle on his Versed Podcast for a thoughtful conversation about Lifespark’s vision and our addition of Urgent Response Services. Great dialogue on why Lifespark takes full global risk for the seniors we serve and how creating a complete senior health experience changes the age-old story. Listen in: […]

When is something urgent and when should seniors go to the ER? That’s the topic of discussion an interview between Pete Carlson, Lifespark VP, Acute Response Services, and Susie Jones on her morning Health Radio show with WCCO. The current reality is overcrowded emergency rooms with 50-55% of those visits, for seniors especially, being unnecessary. […]

Pete Carlson, Lifespark VP, Acute Response Services, shared his thoughts on why house calls for seniors are often easier, cheaper, and more convenient in a recent article published in the MinnPost. “It’s one of the best healthcare lessons — and public policy changes — that came out of COVID: Many Minnesota seniors are now being […]

At the height of the pandemic, Lifespark launched what was called Acute Care at Home as a direct response to community need to serve people at home. We did it because it was the right thing to do, and we had the capabilities to do it long before payment mechanisms caught up. In a recent […]