Category: News

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 […]

The work that Lifespark is doing is catching the attention of reporters who want to dig under the covers and understand how we are building an integrated, complete senior health experience, and why. In an interview with Jeff Shaw, editor, Senior Business Magazine, Joel Theisen, Lifespark CEO and Matt Kinne, COO, offered a glimpse of […]

In a recent article in Senior Housing News, reporter Austin Montgomery shares how memory care operators are gearing up for deeper participation in the new Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) program from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which officially launched this week. Austin interviewed Matt Kinne, Lifespark Chief Operating Officer, on […]

Andrew Donlan, editor for Home Health Care News, shared the latest update on CMS’ GUIDE Model noting Lifespark as a participating organization. CMS said that there will be almost 400 participating organizations building Dementia Care Programs (DCPs) to serve Medicare beneficiaries at first. Those include Lifespark, InHome Connect, VNA Health System, Memory Care Home Solutions, […]

Lifespark was interviewed by Senior Housing News where Lifespark CEO, Joel Theisen, shared our why and vision for adding Urgent Response Services to our Lifespark COMPLETE offerings. This addition is aimed at cutting down on unnecessary urgent care and hospital visits and meeting demand for more value-based care arrangements. Through its new urgent response team, […]