Home Care Innovator Lifespark to Acquire Senior Living Operator Tealwood

May 12, 2021
Meaghan Puglisi
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Lifespark — the whole-person senior services company based in Minnesota — has added a new page to its innovative playbook.

On top of being a fully integrated provider of home health, hospice, primary care and other senior-focused services, Lifespark is also now a bona fide senior living operator. It holds that distinction after announcing the planned acquisition of Tealwood Senior Living on Tuesday.

Founded in 2004, the site-agnostic, open-minded Lifespark didn’t necessarily start out with plans to become a senior living management business. Yet it has “always been in housing” in some capacity, having served five buildings as the home care provider of record for the past 13 years, CEO Joel Theisen told Home Health Care News.

Read on for the full story by Robert Holly, Home Health Care News…

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