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Home-Based Care Provider That’s Going to Take on Nearly $500 Million In Risk

  • Sep 8, 2022
  • Meaghan Puglisi
  • 1-min Read

Andrew Donlan with Home Health Care News (HHCN) gets candid with Joel Theisen, Lifespark CEO and Advisory Member, Paul Mastrapa, in HHCN’s video series ‘HHCN Talks.’ Andrew points out, “For other home-based care providers, the Minnesota-based Lifespark can offer lessons in taking on risk to get to the “apex-predator level,” as its CEO Joel Theisen would say. At the same time, the company is also looking outward to learn from others as it gets ready for a nationwide expansion.”

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