医疗服务提供商Harbor Health收购Rippl，扩大对患者和护理人员的专业痴呆支持-动脉网

Harbor Health Acquires Rippl, Expanding Expert Dementia Support for Patients and Caregivers

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Acquisition Accelerates the Growth of Harbor Health’s Condition-Focused Care Pathways and Its Model of Combined Care and Coverage

收购加速了Harbor Health以病况为核心的护理路径的增长及其结合护理与覆盖的模式的发展。

For families facing dementia, each day can bring unfamiliar territory, confusion, and worry.

对于面临痴呆症的家庭来说，每一天都可能带来陌生的领域、困惑和担忧。

Harbor Health

港口健康

, a Texas-based primary and specialty care clinic group and health insurance company, today announced it has acquired

，一家总部位于德克萨斯州的初级和专科护理诊所集团及健康保险公司，今天宣布已完成收购

Rippl

涟漪

, a dementia care platform built to help seniors living with dementia remain at home and out of the emergency department, hospital, and post-acute settings. These are places they end up far too often.

，一个为帮助痴呆症患者继续留在家中，并远离急诊室、医院和急性后期护理场所而建立的痴呆护理平台。这些地方他们往往过于频繁地进入。

The acquisition advances Harbor Health’s strategy to expand its condition-focused care pathways and strengthen the company’s integrated model, which combines expertise in chronic condition management that can better predict care needs and access to coordinated, affordable health insurance. Offering .

此次收购推动了Harbor Health扩展其针对特定疾病护理路径的战略，并加强了公司的整合模式，该模式结合了慢性病管理的专业知识，能更好地预测护理需求并获得协调且价格合理的健康保险。

care and coverage

关怀与覆盖范围

combined allows providers to take better care of people through every step of the health journey, better aligning insurance benefits with the right care.

combined 允许提供商在健康的每一步更好地照顾人们，更好地将保险福利与适当的护理相匹配。

Rippl’s platform helps identify medical and behavioral issues early, often preventing emergency room visits and easing the emotional burden on families. Harbor Health’s condition-focused care pathways are all designed with the same proactive approach. The structured, evidence-based care pathways guide members and clinicians through every stage of managing a specific health condition, such as diabetes, hypertension, and chronic pain (back, knee, hip).

Rippl的平台有助于及早发现医疗和行为问题，常常能够避免急诊室就诊，并减轻家庭的情感负担。Harbor Health以病情为核心的护理路径均采用相同的积极预防方法设计。这些结构化的、基于证据的护理路径引导会员和临床医生管理特定健康状况的每个阶段，例如糖尿病、高血压和慢性疼痛（背部、膝盖、髋部）。

Dementia fits perfectly into this unique approach..

痴呆症非常适合这种独特的方法。

“Integrating Rippl’s dementia platform into our expanding library of condition-focused care pathways gives our health teams another powerful tool to manage complex health needs,” said Tony Miller, Harbor Health Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. “As our health plan membership grows rapidly, these pathways are essential for keeping coverage more affordable and taking better care of people.

“将Rippl的痴呆症平台整合到我们不断扩展的针对特定疾病护理路径的库中，为我们的医疗团队提供了另一个管理复杂健康需求的强大工具，”Harbor Health联合创始人兼首席执行官Tony Miller表示。“随着我们的健康计划会员数量迅速增长，这些路径对于保持覆盖范围更可负担以及更好地照顾患者至关重要。”

That’s our priority.”.

“这是我们的优先事项。”

“We created Rippl to keep seniors with dementia and their caregivers at home and out of the emergency department and hospital,” said

“我们创建了Rippl，以帮助患有痴呆症的老年人和他们的护理人员留在家中，避免去急诊室和医院，”

Kris Engskov

克里思·恩格斯科夫

, Rippl Care Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. “We’ve always understood expert dementia care works best when it’s deeply integrated with primary care, and we’re excited to see Harbor Health scale this platform as part of its broader effort to deliver condition-focused care and better outcomes while dramatically reducing unnecessary costs.”.

里普尔护理公司联合创始人兼首席执行官表示：“我们一直认为，只有当专业的痴呆症护理与初级护理深度融合时，才能发挥最佳效果。我们很高兴看到哈勃健康扩大这一平台的规模，将其作为更广泛努力的一部分，以提供针对病情的护理，取得更好的治疗效果，同时大幅降低不必要的成本。”

As part of the deal, Rippl investors are making a new commitment to the combined company. Key investors include

作为协议的一部分，Rippl 的投资者将对合并后的公司作出新的承诺。主要投资者包括

Kin Ventures

金创投

，

ARCH Venture Partners

ARCH风险投资伙伴

，

General Catalyst

泛催化剂

，

GV (Google Ventures)

谷歌风投（Google Ventures）

，

F-Prime Capital

F-Prime 资本

，

JSL Health

JSL健康

, and

，以及

Mass General Brigham Ventures

马萨诸塞综合医院布里格姆风险投资公司

。

Expanding Care and Coverage Together with Personalized Care Pathways

携手通过个性化护理路径扩展护理和覆盖范围

This acquisition accelerates Harbor Health’s broader vision to become Texas’s leading integrated

此次收购加速了Harbor Health更广泛的愿景，即成为德克萨斯州领先的综合健康平台。

care and coverage

关怀与覆盖范围

provider, as well as expands Harbor Health’s services into the Florida market. Following its 2025 acquisition of 32 VillageMD clinics, Harbor Health continues to expand the evidence-based care pathways, helping people feel supported throughout every stage of their health journeys. The dementia care program will be available to people receiving care at Harbor Health and VillageMD locations in Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso.

提供商，并且将Harbor Health的服务扩展到佛罗里达市场。继2025年收购32家VillageMD诊所后，Harbor Health继续扩展基于证据的护理路径，帮助人们在健康旅程的每个阶段都感到受支持。痴呆症护理项目将提供给在奥斯汀、达拉斯、圣安东尼奥和埃尔帕索的Harbor Health及VillageMD地点接受护理的人们。

In addition, Rippl services will continue to be provided to Medicare Advantage members as well as seniors covered by traditional Medicare through CMS’s innovative GUIDE program..

此外，Rippl 服务将继续通过 CMS 的创新 GUIDE 计划提供给 Medicare Advantage 会员以及传统 Medicare 覆盖的老年人。

Harbor Health surrounds families facing dementia or other health conditions with a coordinated team that walks beside them, making sure they are not alone and have the

Harbor Health 为面临痴呆症或其他健康状况的家庭提供一个协调的团队，陪伴在他们身边，确保他们并不孤单，并且拥有必要的支持。

care and coverage

关怀与覆盖范围

they need.

他们需要。

About Harbor Health

关于Harbor Health

Harbor Health was created by people who have spent decades trying to make health better, including those who provide health to those who figure out how to pay for it. Harbor Health’s mission is to make care work better for consumers so that everyone can achieve optimal health. For more information, visit .

Harbor Health 由一群致力于改善健康状况的人士创立，他们包括提供健康服务的人和研究如何支付这些服务费用的人。Harbor Health 的使命是让医疗保健更好地为消费者服务，使每个人都能达到最佳健康状态。欲了解更多信息，请访问。

harborhealth.com

。

riginally announced February 10th, 2026

最初宣布于2026年2月10日