Introduction:
Almost Family, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides home health services. Its Visiting Nurse Services segment offers a range of Medicare-certified home health nursing services to patients in need of recuperative care, as well as services to patients in lieu of additional care in other settings, including long term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, or skilled nursing facilities. This segment also provides special clinically-based protocols to medically complex, chronic, and co-morbid patients. The companys Personal Care Services segment offers personal care, medication management, meal preparation, caregiver respite, and homemaking services in patients homes primarily on an as-needed, hourly basis. Its Healthcare Innovations Segment engages in the technology, information, population health management, risk-sharing, care coordination and transitions, clinical advancements, enhanced patient engagement, and informed clinical decision activities. The company operates approximately 94 Medicare-certified home health agencies with 162 locations; and 74 personal care locations. It provides its services through its service locations in Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, New York, Kentucky, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama. Almost Family, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky.