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Current Healthcare:
Freedom Eldercare is a provider of non-medical in-home healthcare services to the geriatric population as well as geriatric care management and professional education services. Freedom provides hourly or live-in care and a Geriatric Care Management program that includes comprehensive evaluation and care plan recommendation; assistance with medical, legal and financial decisions; coordination and monitoring of service providers and ongoing reports and support to the client and his or her family.
 
Prior Healthcare:  
Comfort Keepers is a leading franchisor in the non-medical in-home care market for seniors. Comfort Keepers’ caregivers provide home care services such as companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, laundry, dressing guidance and grocery shopping in addition to personal care services, principally to the elderly population and other adults who require assistance to remain in their homes
 
Beacon Hospice is the largest hospice company in New England. The Company provides palliative care to patients in acute care, long term care and home settings. It is the industry leader in the development of specialized clinical programs focusing upon such disease states as Alzheimer’s and heart disease.
 
Heartlab was a growth buyout of the best of breed multi modality diagnostic imaging software and hardware firm serving the cardiac care market. The Company was largely family owned and had grown rapidly and the founders wished to realize some liquidity on their principal asset without selling the entire company prematurely. They also sought assistance in taking the company to the next level of development. A majority control of the company was acquired in a buyout funded completely with equity and worked with the founders over the next four years to nearly quadruple the revenues and EBITDA of the Company. This included navigating a very challenging 2001-2003 period when capital expenditures by hospitals suffered a severe contraction due to the recession in the aftermath of 9/11. The investment was non auction and a result of a relationship with the Company’s audit firm.
 
OnCURE was a nominally public company operating multiple outpatient radiation centers in Northern Florida and California. The Company suffered from a dysfunctional equity structure and lacked sufficient funds for working capital and capital expenditures. The opportunity was first identified in 2002 while the Company was in the midst of an operating turn-around being effected by new management. Though the Company and the industry were attractive, the decision was made not to invest at that time due to insufficient visibility on the efficacy of the operating turn around. A year later there did exist sufficient evidence of positive momentum so the Company was taken private and the balance sheet restructured.

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