Video Interview: Keith G. Myers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer LHC Group,
Inc.
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veteran business journalist Sasha
Salama joins Keith G. Myers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer LHC Group,
Inc. (LHCG) to discuss the company's industry, strategy, financials and
positioning.
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In fourteen short years, Keith Myers has provided the vision and leadership
needed to take a small rural home health agency and turn it into what is now
known as LHC Group, a regional home nursing and post acute health care services
company with more than 5000 employees, providing both home based and facility
services through 231 locations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Florida,
Georgia, Missouri, Maryland, and Alabama.
In 1999, Mr. Myers was granted Certified Home/Hospice Care Executive (CHCE)
credentials by the National Association for Home Care which placed him among the
first to receive this recognition. In recent years, he has also received such
honors as being named Business Executive of the Year by the Louisiana Rural
Health Association in 1999 and has been an active participant in the Home Health
Top 100 since 2002. He has participated in the preparation of white papers and
presentations to members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in
Washington D.C., specifically related to health care reimbursement methodologies
and the correlation between various reimbursement methods and the resulting
level of clinical outcomes and overall quality of service received by
beneficiaries.
In June of 2003, Mr. Myers received the Regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award
for outstanding performance in the field of Healthcare Services and was
officially inducted as a Lifetime member of The National Entrepreneur Of The
Year Hall of Fame in November of 2003. The National Entrepreneur Of The Year
Award program is sponsored nationally by USA Today, CNN, The Nasdaq(r) Stock
Market, and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing
Marion Kauffman Foundation. The Entrepreneur of the Year awards program annually
honors the most successful and entrepreneurial business leaders across the
country who have demonstrated excellence in areas such as innovation, financial
performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
Previous National Entrepreneur of the Year award winners have included Michael
Dell of Dell Computer Corporation and Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee.
Prior to entering the healthcare industry, Mr. Myers served as President and
General Manager of a seafood company, which he and his father founded in 1980.
The company began operations as a small single site food processing facility
with less than ten employees, and after bringing in partners to provide needed
capital for growth and expansion, he continued to provide the hands on day to
day oversight necessary to grow from one single facility, into an international
food processing, procurement, and distribution company with contract packaging
operations and multiple production sites in the U.S., Latin America and Asia,
serving as a direct supplier of Sysco, Kraft, and other national retail and
institutional food distributors, and indirectly servicing national accounts such
as Pillsbury and General Mills.
About LHC Group, Inc.:
LHC Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides post-acute healthcare
services primarily to Medicare beneficiaries in rural markets in the United
States. The company offers various home-based services primarily through home
nursing agencies and hospices; and facility-based services principally through
long-term acute care hospitals and outpatient rehabilitation clinics. Its home
nursing locations provide a range of services, including skilled nursing,
nursing, physical, occupational, and speech therapy and medically-oriented
social services. The company's hospice services comprise pain and symptom
management accompanied by palliative medication; emotional and spiritual
support; inpatient and respite care; homemaker services; dietary counseling;
social worker visits; spiritual counseling; and bereavement counseling services.
It also operates long-term acute care hospitals that provide services primarily
to patients who have transitioned out of a hospital intensive care unit with
complex medical conditions. The company provides its outpatient rehabilitation
services through physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech
pathologists, as well as offers outpatient rehabilitation services on a contract
basis. As of December 31, 2007, LHC Group owned and operated 144 home nursing
locations, 9 hospices, and 4 long-term acute care hospitals. It has a joint
venture relationship with Grant Memorial Hospital to provide home health and
hospice services in Petersburg and the surrounding areas. The company was
founded in 1994 and is based in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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