Amedisys to Present at Two Upcoming Conferences

BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), one of America’s leading home health and hospice companies, today announced that executives from Amedisys will present at two upcoming conferences.

The first presentation will be at the Robert W. Baird & Company 2010 Health Care Conference in New York, NY on Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Presenting from Amedisys will be William F. Borne, Chief Executive Officer and Dale E. Redman, Chief Financial Officer. The presentation will begin at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time.

The second presentation will be a panel discussion titled “Dealing with the Deluge of New Patients” at the Stifel Nicolaus 2010 Healthcare Conference in Boston, MA on Wednesday, September 15, 2010. Michael D. Snow, Chief Operating Officer will be on the panel representing Amedisys. The panel discussion will begin at 10:55 a.m. Eastern time.

A live webcast of each presentation can be accessed through a link on our Investor Relations subpage at the following web address: http://www.amedisys.com/investors.

About Amedisys, Inc.

Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED) is the nation’s leading health care company focused on bringing home the continuum of care. Each day Amedisys delivers personalized health care services to more than 35,000 individual patients and their families, in the comfort of patients’ homes. Amedisys has two divisions, home health care and hospice, and employs more than 16,000 skilled clinicians across the country. The Company’s state-of-the-art advanced chronic care management programs and leading-edge technology enables it to deliver quality care based upon the latest evidence-based best practices. Amedisys is a recognized innovator, being the first in the industry to equip its clinicians with point-of-care laptop technology and referring physicians with an internet portal that enables real-time coordination of patient care seamlessly. Amedisys also has the industry’s first-ever nationwide Care Transitions program. Amedisys Care Transitions is designed to reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions through patient and caregiver health coaching and care coordination, which starts in the hospital and continues throughout completion of the patient’s home health plan of care. For more information about the Company, please visit: www.amedisys.com.

Our company website address is www.amedisys.com. We use our website as a channel of distribution for important company information. Important information, including press releases, analyst presentations and financial information regarding the Company is routinely posted on and accessible on the “Investor Relations” subpage of our website, which is accessible by clicking on the tab labeled “Investors” on our website home page. We will also use our website to expedite public access to time-critical information regarding the Company in advance of or in lieu of distributing a press release or a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) disclosing the same information. In addition, we make available on the Investor Relations subpage of our website (under the link “SEC filings”) free of charge our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, ownership reports on Forms 3, 4 and 5 and any amendments to those reports as soon as practicable after we electronically file such reports with the SEC. Further, copies of our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws, our Code of Ethical Business Conduct and the charters for the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees of our Board are also available on the Investor Relations subpage of our website (under the link “Corporate Governance”).



CONTACT:

Amedisys, Inc.
Investors:
Kevin B. LeBlanc
Director of Investor Relations
225-298-6391
[email protected]
or
Media:
Jacqueline Chen Valencia
Senior Vice President Marketing & Communications
225-295-9688
[email protected]

KEYWORDS:   United States  North America  Louisiana

INDUSTRY KEYWORDS:   Health  Hospitals  Other Health  Nursing  General Health  Managed Care

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