Forcura Honors Amedisys With First-Ever Connect Award

Forcura, a healthcare technology company that enables safer patient care transitions and coordination, today announced that it will recognize Amedisys as the recipient of its first-ever Forcura CONNECT Award.

The award, which will be presented at the 2022 Forcura CONNECT Summit Jan. 18-20, was created to honor an entity for its exemplary approach or achievements in empowering better patient care. The award includes a $5,000 donation from Forcura to the Amedisys Foundation.

Forcura selected Amedisys, a Louisiana-based home health, hospice, personal and high-acuity care in the home provider, for its consistent excellence and innovation in patient care. The organization recently partnered with Penn State Health and Highmark through Contessa, an Amedisys company, to form Hospital Care at Home and Skilled Nursing Care at Home, which will operate through Penn State Health Home Recovery Care. These programs, which are expected to launch in early 2022, bring all the essential elements of hospital and skilled nursing care into the comfort of patients' homes.

"Amedisys has served as a pioneer for the acute and post-acute sectors, forming partnerships and creating solutions to advance our industry and deliver outstanding, value-based care to patients," said Forcura founder and CEO, Craig Mandeville. "Amedisys has also demonstrated leadership and an unwavering commitment to team and culture amidst our sector's continued staffing challenges, regularly recognized as one of the industry's best places to work."

"This award helps raise awareness of what's possible through innovation and doing what's best for our patients ? it's an honor to be recognized by Forcura as part of that effort," said Amedisys SVP and chief technology officer, Keith Blanchard.

In addition to its recognition, Amedisys will lead a discussion at the 2022 Forcura CONNECT Summit on using AI to retain employees and maintain strong morale. Sharon Brunecz, Amedisys' chief human resource officer ? along with a panel of Amedisys employees ? will explain another approach to innovation: its development of a propriety, AI-powered retention model to identify and engage team members who are at risk of attrition.

The Summit brings together several healthcare leaders each year to discuss trends, survey findings and crucial issues affecting the entire healthcare ecosystem. There is no cost to attendees. For more information about the 2022 CONNECT Summit, including the full schedule and speaker lineup, visit https://www.forcura.com/connect-summit.

About Forcura

Forcura, a leading healthcare technology company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, facilitates continuity of care via technology, analytics and a deep commitment to enabling better patient care. The Forcura suite of tools is powered by Forcura Connect, a proprietary framework for standardizing interoperability and integration among post-acute healthcare organizations, physicians, electronic health records (EHRs) and other supporting technology vendors. Through our technology and analytics solutions, we are a step closer every day to elevating the opportunities of post-acute care. The company has been recognized in 2021 as the Best Healthcare Technology Solution by the SIIA, ranked for the fifth consecutive year on the Inc. 5000 and is a top-20 ranked Fortune Best Small & Medium Workplacestm.? For more information visit www.forcura.com, call 800-378-0596 or follow Forcura on LinkedIn.

About Amedisys

Amedisys, Inc. is a leading healthcare at home company delivering personalized home health, hospice and personal care. Amedisys is focused on delivering the care that is best for our patients, whether that is home-based personal care; recovery and rehabilitation after an operation or injury; care focused on empowering them to manage a chronic disease; or hospice care at the end of life. More than 2,900 hospitals and 78,000 physicians nationwide have chosen Amedisys as a partner in post-acute care. Founded in 1982, headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA with an executive office in Nashville, TN, Amedisys is a publicly held company. With approximately 21,000 employees in 519 care centers within 39 states and the District of Columbia, Amedisys is dedicated to delivering the highest quality of care to the doorsteps of more than 418,000 patients and clients in need every year. For more information about the company, please visit www.amedisys.com.