CareSouth Expands Services Throughout Florida

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CareSouth Health System, Inc., today announced that it has expanded its health care services throughout Florida with the purchase of key assets of Alliance Care, a provider of home health care, private duty and physician house call services. The transaction was finalized on August 8, 2012 and is one of the largest transactions in the history of CareSouth.

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The company has taken over Alliance Care operations, now doing business as CareSouth Homecare Professionals in Bethesda, Boynton Beach, Bradenton, Dundee, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Largo, Ormond Beach, Sarasota, Tampa and West Palm Beach. CareSouth will retain most of the former Alliance Care employees, and will increase that employee base in the near future.

"Our focus is on quality care and exceptional customer service by well trained professional employees," said Rick Griffin, CareSouth Chief Executive Officer and President. "In the coming months we will quickly integrate CareSouth's superior clinical programs and advanced technology into each agency. With these proven tools as our base, we will provide the communities we serve with the quality health care and superior outcomes they need and deserve, all in the comfort of their own homes.  We will also provide our acute care partners with superior performance in re-admission rates and avoidance of unnecessary emergency department visits thereby enhancing their patient care and financial performance."

CareSouth utilizes the latest in healthcare management software in HomeCare HomeBase, integrating a physicians' portal, for consistent data transfer and communications throughout the health care system along with state of the art telehealth monitoring.

CareSouth is a leading provider of home health care and other non-acute healthcare services in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Now with 55 certified locations, the company is accredited with deemed status by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC). CareSouth nurses are credentialed through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. It agencies consistently rank in Home Care Elite as being among the top 25 percent of home health care agencies in the nation. In 2011, 96 percent of CareSouth patients were served by Home Care Elite agencies. CareSouth also provides hospice, outpatient wellness and rehabilitation, physician housecall services and private duty nursing services in various markets. For more information on CareSouth, visit www.caresouth.com.

SOURCE CareSouth Health System, Inc.

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