Simione Healthcare Consultants acquired Healthcare Concepts Inc., a Memphis-based executive recruitment firm for the home care and hospice industry, as it develops a team for executive search.

The transaction closed July 10; terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Healthcare Concepts will be incorporated into the Simione entity and its team will join Exact Recruiting, a Trinity, Fla.-based firm Simione acquired in April to add recruitment and staffing for home health and hospice organizations to its offerings.

Healthcare Concepts, founded in 1980 by President and CEO Laurel Reisman, provides post-acute providers with recruitment and interim management services, as well as home care start-up consulting and clinical publications. Former Healthcare Concepts employees joining the Simione/Exact Recruiting team include Lucy LaDart and Kristi Trucks.

Exact Recruiting, launched in 2005, serves clients nationwide and has placed more than 1,300 professionals to date.

Simione is headquartered in Connecticut, with offices in Florida, Massachusetts and California. The company has a nationwide footprint and supports performance improvement across the healthcare continuum, serving more than 1,500 organizations nationwide.