Press Releases

The partnership is the first-of-its-kind in the region and creates a new care at home option for patients, including Recovery Care at Home, Rehabilitation Care at Home, Palliative Care at Home, Primary Care at Home and Home Health Little Rock, Ark. and Nashville, Tenn. – October 11, 2022 – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), a leading health care at home company, and Contessa, an Amedisys company and the leading comprehensive care at home provider, announced a partnership bringing a new care at home option to Central Arkansas. The joint venture offers patients a full…

Mount Sinai at Home provides home health, hospitalization at home, rehabilitation at home and palliative care at home to patients in the New York metropolitan area New York, N.Y. and Nashville, Tenn. – August 2, 2022 – Mount Sinai Health System and Contessa, the leading comprehensive home-based care provider, announced the extension of their partnership combining Mount Sinai South Nassau’s home health agency into their existing joint venture. The new combination offers a full continuum of home-based care that includes home health, hospitalization at home, rehabilitation at home (in lieu of care at a skilled nursing facility) and palliative care…

This partnership gives patients options of where to receive inpatient, rehabilitation, and palliative care Houston, TX and Nashville, TN – June 24, 2022– Memorial Hermann Health System is pleased to announce a new partnership with the nation’s leading high-acuity home care provider Contessa, an Amedisys company (NASDAQ: AMED), to deliver home-based medical, rehabilitation and palliative care to its patients. Through the partnership, Memorial Hermann will be able to offer acute hospital care, post-hospitalization skilled nursing care, and palliative care to patients from the convenience of their own homes, rather than only the traditional brick-and-mortar inpatient or rehabilitation facilities. Contessa’s hospital…

Partnership will create a continuum of at-home care that encourages patient choice, reduces costs and improves outcomes Dallas, Texas; and Nashville, Tenn. – June 9, 2022 – Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest not-for-profit health system in Texas, and Contessa, an Amedisys company (NASDAQ: AMED) and the nation’s leading high-acuity home care provider, announce a partnership to provide patients with a high-quality continuum of care in the home. The continuum of care will include new alternative care models to extend comprehensive, coordinated medical care to patients’ homes, including hospital-level care, palliative or supportive care, and skilled nursing care. Baylor…

Gundersen Home Hospital Brings Hospital-Level Care into Patients’ Homes, Decreasing Unnecessary Hospital Stays and Improving Patient Outcomes  LaCrosse, WISC. – January 26, 2022. – When Cliff Johnson had trouble breathing, his wife took him to Gundersen Lutheran Hospital. The nearly 80-year-old lives with claustrophobia and was fearing nights alone in a hospital room. That’s when he was approached about Gundersen Home Hospital. He eagerly enrolled into the program.  “I was sent home at 4:30 pm. That night, I received an oxygen system with six tanks. A nurse came out with a kit that included a pulse oximeter, blood pressure cuff,…

Contessa, an Amedisys company, has strict cyber security measures protecting patients, employees and partners. The high-acuity care at home operator has received national recognition by earning HITRUST CSF® Certification by HITRUST, the Health Information Trust Alliance.  

HITRUST CSF® Certification demonstrates that the organization’s infrastructure protects patient and provider information and have met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and are appropriately managing risk.  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Health, the largest not-for-profit health organization in South Carolina, is now offering Home Recovery Care to patients cared for at Prisma Health Richland Hospital. Prisma Health partners with Nashville-based Contessa to operate the care model that helps patients to stay out of the hospital by bringing key elements of inpatient care directly into patients’ homes. This marks the third location for Prisma Health Home Recovery Care. The program launched at Greenville Memorial Hospital in 2019 and expanded to Oconee Memorial Hospital last year. In the Upstate, the program has a 90% acceptance rate and an average…