Absolute Health Services

What Absolute Health Services does

Absolute Health Services is a family-owned and operated, Ohio-based provider of integrated long-term care services, organized as a family of companies under five wholly-owned subsidiaries: Absolute Pharmacy, Absolute Rehabilitation and Consulting Services, Absolute Skilled Home Health, Absolute Hospice, and Summit Acres Home Care. The company serves skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, outpatient centers, and individual patients across Ohio through a unified care continuum spanning pharmacy dispensing, physical/occupational/speech therapy, skilled home health, hospice, and state-approved nurse aide training.

Its core technology layer centers on the Absolute Pharmacy operating model, anchored by the proprietary flexPOD multi-dose adherence packaging system — which groups prescriptions by day and time into color-coded, barcoded, photograph-labeled blister packs — together with SynMed Ultra automated packaging hardware. The platform integrates with dominant long-term care EHR systems (PointClickCare and MatrixCare), enabling data synchronization between pharmacy operations and facility records. Absolute Rehabilitation layers in facility-facing sales enablement, including custom sales manuals and admissions-team training, to support census growth for client SNFs and assisted living operators.

The business model is a hybrid of recurring and professional-services revenue. Absolute Pharmacy generates recurring long-term care pharmacy revenue through multi-year facility contracts priced by volume and service scope (including 24/7 pharmacist availability, paperless operations, and Part D optimization). Absolute Rehabilitation, Absolute Skilled Home Health, Absolute Hospice, and the Nurse Aide Training program are billed per service or per episode under Medicare (for hospice and home health) and private-pay arrangements, with quote-based enterprise pricing. Go-to-market is regional and sales-led: dedicated representatives (e.g., Mary Jo McElyea for pharmacy, Kelly Rose for rehabilitation) maintain direct relationships with facility administrators, supplemented by healthcare-provider referrals for home health and hospice and a modest digital presence (newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn).

Name

Absolute Health Services

Legal name

Absolute Health Services Inc.

Website

https://abshealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Absolute Health Services is a family-owned, Ohio-based provider of integrated long-term care services — including pharmacy, rehabilitation therapy, home health, hospice, and nurse aide training — delivered to skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, outpatient centers, and patients across Ohio.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Long-term Care Services

NAICS

Ambulatory Health Care Services (621), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120), Offices of Other Health Practitioners (6213)

SIC

Services-Home Health Care Services (8082), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Hospital-Based/Home Health System-Affiliated Skilled Home Health (HLADAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Home Health Therapy Services (PT/OT/SLP) Providers (HLAFAEAM), Home-Based Chronic Disease Management (Skilled) (HLADAFAL)

Keywords

• Long-term care pharmacy
• Rehabilitation therapy services
• Home health care
• Hospice care services
• Nurse aide training

Headquarters

HQ city

Canton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Pharmacy Services: Long-term care pharmacy services providing prescription medications, medical supplies, and pharmaceutical consulting to skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities. Operates 24/7 with pharmacists available anytime.
2. Rehabilitation Therapy Services: Comprehensive physical, occupational, and speech therapy services provided in post-acute care settings including skilled nursing facilities, home care, assisted living, and outpatient centers. Billed per service or through facility contracts.
3. Home Health Services: Skilled home health care delivered on a short-term, intermittent basis by nurses, therapists, social workers, and home health aides to individuals in their homes.
4. Hospice Care Services: Hospice services for patients with life-limiting illnesses, providing physical, spiritual, and emotional support to patients and families. Services begin with a prognosis of six months or less.
5. Nurse Aide Training: Nurse aide training program fulfilling 75-hour classroom and clinical requirements for certified nursing assistant eligibility. Classes scheduled weekdays and evenings.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Absolute Health Services is a family-owned provider of long-term care services operating through a family of companies that delivers long-term care pharmacy services, physical/occupational/speech rehabilitation therapy, skilled home health, hospice care, and certified nurse aide training. The organization primarily serves skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, outpatient centers, and individual patients across Ohio, with technology-enabled medication packaging (flexPOD) and 24/7 pharmacist availability as operational differentiators.

Product overview

Absolute Health Services is a family-owned and -operated provider of long-term care services offering a portfolio of distinct service lines: Absolute Pharmacy (independent LTC pharmacy with 24/7 operations), Absolute Rehabilitation (physical, occupational, and speech therapy), Absolute Home Health (skilled home care), Absolute Hospice (end-of-life care), Nurse Aide Training (state-approved certification program with 97% graduation rate), and flexPOD multi-dose adherence packaging. These services are delivered to facilities and consumers across Ohio through a coordinated, technology-enabled approach with shared platforms and collaborative care teams.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Absolute Pharmacy An independent, Ohio-based long-term care pharmacy offering 24/7 operations, paperless pharmacy workflows, one-call resolution, and comprehensive services including billing, medical records, prior authorizations, Part D plan optimization, and clinical consulting to skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities.
• Absolute Rehabilitation Comprehensive physical, occupational, and speech therapy services delivered in post-acute care settings including skilled nursing facilities, home care, assisted living communities, and outpatient centers, billed per service or through facility contracts.
• Absolute Home Health Skilled home health care delivered on a short-term, intermittent basis by nurses, therapists, social workers, and home health aides to individuals recovering at home after surgery or illness.
• Absolute Hospice End-of-life hospice care for patients with a prognosis of six months or less, providing physical, spiritual, and emotional support to patients and their families facing terminal diagnoses.
• Nurse Aide Training Training and Competency Evaluation (TCE) program fulfilling the 75-hour classroom and clinical requirements for eligibility to take the certified nursing assistant state competency test, with graduation rates consistently exceeding 97 percent and on-site state testing.
• flexPOD Multi-Dose Adherence Packaging Multi-dose adherence packaging solution that groups resident prescription drugs by day and time in blister packs to reduce administration errors, featuring unique barcodes, color-coded administration times, patient photographs, medication images, and detachable blisters that transition into labeled medication cups.

Quantifiable outcome

• Student graduation rate consistently exceeds 97 percent
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Encompass Health: National post-acute care operator combining inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and home health/hospice services. Highly comparable to Absolute's rehabilitation and home health lines given the overlap in therapy services and post-acute care delivery model.
• Select Medical Holdings: Large operator of critical illness recovery hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, and outpatient rehabilitation clinics. Broad incumbent comparable to Absolute Rehabilitation across inpatient, post-acute, and outpatient therapy settings.
• CVS Health (Omnicare): Parent of Omnicare, one of the largest U.S. institutional LTC pharmacies serving SNFs and assisted living facilities. Broad incumbent competitor to Absolute Pharmacy across the institutional pharmacy market.

Direct peers

• Amedisys: Major home health and hospice provider serving patients across the U.S., with operations focused on skilled nursing, therapy, and end-of-life care at home. Directly comparable to Absolute Skilled Home Health and Absolute Hospice service lines.
• Enhabit: Home health and hospice operator spun out of Encompass, focused on Medicare-certified skilled home health services. Compares directly to Absolute Skilled Home Health in clinical scope and reimbursement model.
• National HealthCare Corporation (NHC): Integrated post-acute provider combining skilled nursing, home health, hospice, and rehabilitation therapy services. Closely comparable to Absolute's multi-line family-of-companies model delivered across a regional Southeast/Midwest footprint.
• PharMerica: One of the largest U.S. long-term care pharmacy operators, dispensing medications to skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. Directly comparable to Absolute Pharmacy's institutional LTC pharmacy business and flexPOD-style multi-dose packaging offering.
• Chemed Corporation (Vitas Healthcare): Vitas Healthcare is the largest U.S. hospice provider, operating a multi-state hospice and palliative care model analogous to Absolute Hospice. Comparable in end-of-life clinical delivery, reimbursement model, and referral-based GTM.
• LHC Group: Home health, hospice, and facility-based care provider with strong post-acute footprint comparable to Absolute's home health and hospice offerings. Operates a similar multi-line community-care model across geographically defined service areas.
• Addus HomeCare: Provider of personal care, home health, and hospice services, with particular strength in Medicaid-funded home and community-based services. Directly comparable to Absolute's home health operations and elder-care focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/AbsoluteCares
• Facebookfacebook.com/AbsoluteHomeHealthHospice
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/absolute-skilled-home-health

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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