Charter Health Care Group — a PE-backed post-acute care platform company with multiple locations across five states — announced Tuesday the acquisitions of both Vitality Home Healthcare and Heartwood Home Health & Hospice.

The news comes less than two weeks after Bridges Health Services similarly announced a series of transactions at the start of October. It likewise comes after The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) closing on a new joint venture and making its own hospice acquisition.

While none of these deals are directly related, they signal a recent rekindling of the M&A fire across the home health and hospice spaces. Dealmaking experts are starting to notice, too, with some expecting a frenzied final few months of 2020.

“I was discussing this with my partner,” Rich Tinsley, president of M&A advisory firm Stoneridge Partners, said during last month’s Home Health Care News FUTURE event. “I’m expecting the end of this