Amedisys and ClearCare Forge Partnership to Coordinate Home Health Care and Personal Care
July 25 2019 - 07:00AM
Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), America’s leading independent home
health, hospice and personal care company, has signed an agreement
with ClearCare, Inc. to create an opportunity to establish
partnerships between Amedisys home health centers and personal care
agencies using ClearCare to coordinate the care of patients.
The partnership will leverage Amedisys’ home health footprint of
322 agencies in 34 states and ClearCare’s innovative technology
platform used by more than 4,000 personal care agencies,
effectively connecting high-quality home health care with the
growing demand for personal care at scale.
“With Americans living longer, the value of both home health
care and personal care is increasingly recognized for improving
patient outcomes and lowering costs,” stated Amedisys CEO and
President Paul Kusserow. “This agreement unites both industries to
expand access to and establish a much-needed continuum of care for
hundreds of thousands of the nation’s most vulnerable
patients.”
Personal care is essential in the care continuum for
functionally limited patients with multiple chronic conditions.
Regular monitoring of key changes in conditions may signal the need
for immediate clinical attention to avoid unnecessary hospital
visits. ClearCare enables its partner personal care agencies to use
a Change in Condition protocol to evaluate when skilled clinical
support might be needed in order to recommend Amedisys’
skilled home health services to their clients.
Because the personal care industry is so highly fragmented, few
large-scale systems currently exist today to connect high-quality
skilled clinical care at home with the growing demand for at-home
care that is non-medical. The partnership intends to establish a
nationwide network of personal care agencies working with Amedisys
to facilitate the coordination of personal care and skilled home
health care for patients.
“This agreement makes it possible for our partner personal care
agencies to network with a national leader in home health that’s
committed to clinical excellence and thereby contribute
significantly to a solution to a major problem: effectively
managing patients as they age with multiple chronic conditions,
functional limitations and social determinants,” stated Geoffrey
Nudd, CEO and Founder of ClearCare.
About Amedisys: Amedisys, Inc. is a leading
healthcare at home Company delivering personalized home health,
hospice and personal care. Amedisys is focused on delivering the
care that is best for our patients, whether that is home-based
personal care; recovery and rehabilitation after an operation or
injury; care focused on empowering them to manage a chronic
disease; or hospice care at the end of life. More than 3,000
hospitals and 65,000 physicians nationwide have chosen Amedisys as
a partner in post-acute care. Founded in 1982, headquartered in
Baton Rouge, LA with an executive office in Nashville, TN, Amedisys
is a publicly held company. With more than 21,000 employees in 471
care centers in 38 states and the District of Columbia, Amedisys is
dedicated to delivering the highest quality of care to the
doorsteps of more than 376,000 patients and clients in need every
year. For more information about the Company, please
visit: www.amedisys.com.
About ClearCare: ClearCare is the leading
web-based operating platform for home care agencies. Our secure,
HITRUST CSF Certified platform powers over 4,000 agencies,
including 8 of the largest 10 home care enterprises, which in turn
employ over 600,000 caregivers. In addition to powering all of the
day-to-day operating functions of a home care agency, ClearCare's
Family Room and caregiver portals coordinate members of a patient
or client's care team. ClearCare Home Connect APIs and business
intelligence tools enable home care enterprises to standardize and
optimize their proprietary best practices, and enable the 4,000+
home care agencies we serve to connect to health plans and
providers. Learn more about ClearCare.
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include, changes in Medicare and other medical payment levels, our
ability to open care centers, acquire additional care centers and
integrate and operate these care centers effectively, changes in or
our failure to comply with existing federal and state laws or
regulations or the inability to comply with new government
regulations on a timely basis, competition in the healthcare
industry, changes in the case mix of patients and payment
methodologies, changes in estimates and judgments associated with
critical accounting policies, our ability to maintain or establish
new patient referral sources, our ability to consistently provide
high-quality care, our ability to attract and retain qualified
personnel, changes in payments and covered services by federal and
state governments, future cost containment initiatives undertaken
by third-party payors, our access to financing, our ability to meet
debt service requirements and comply with covenants in debt
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of terrorism, our ability to integrate, manage and keep our
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respect to any litigation relating to the Company, including
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Contact:
Kendra KimmonsVice President of Marketing &
Communications225-299-3708kendra.kimmons@amedisys.com
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