UHS-Pruitt Healthcare to Provide Management Services to King Enterprises Centers in Greater Albany Area

NORCROSS, Ga., June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today UHS-Pruitt Corporation announced it will begin offering management and post-acute health services to four of King Enterprises & Associates' healthcare centers in the Albany, Georgia community.

UHS-Pruitt Corporation and King Enterprises & Associates (KEA) have entered into a 30-year agreement, that increases UHS-Pruitt's bed capacity by 6%, allowing the company to deliver high quality care to more patients than ever and providing an expansion of service offerings in the Albany area. Davis King, Jr., C.E.O. of KEA stated, "Given the successful history that King Enterprises has with UHS-Pruitt, we trust that this agreement will lend valuable expertise in post-acute care settings for decades to come, and look forward to enhanced services delivered to our patients and their community."

Chairman & C.E.O. of UHS-Pruitt, Neil L. Pruitt, Jr., shared similar excitement regarding the new management relationship: "Our family of providers is glad to be offering residents, acute care providers, and the greater health care community expanded services. UHS-Pruitt will serve these new markets with one of the most complete post-acute care health care networks available in our profession.  We are proud to bring the same quality services we provide in local communities throughout the Southeast to Albany, and I believe our history as a home town provider, coupled with our intense focus on quality, positions this relationship for a long and successful future."

About UHS-Pruitt Corporation

Since 1969, UHS-Pruitt Corporation provides management-related services for a spectrum of high quality healthcare providers throughout the Southeast. Known for its proactive performance improvement programs and holistic care post-acute care services, UHS-Pruitt's "commitment to caring" defines not only what they do, but the culture in which its skilled network of dedicated providers work. With more than 200 service locations in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, the UHS-Pruitt Corporation family of providers touches the lives of over 24,000 patients each day through skilled nursing healthcare centers, home care and home health agencies, hospice agencies, assisted living facilities, institutional pharmacies, and programs in rehabilitation, nutrition, adult day care, community care, and care management. 

For more information about the UHS-Pruitt Corporation, please visit www.URReady.com.

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