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Amedisys Announces Second Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call Date

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^{Published in Health and Fitness on Friday, July 15th 2011 at 9:15 GMT by Market Wire}  

BATON ROUGE, La.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), a leading home health and hospice company, today announced details for its earnings release and conference call for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011.

On Tuesday, August 2, 2011 the Company plans to issue its earnings release prior to the market opening, and then at 10:00 a.m. ET the Company will host a conference call to discuss the results. To participate on the conference call, please dial 888-695-0608 (Toll free) or 719-457-2714 (Toll) a few minutes before 10:00 a.m. ET. A replay of the conference call will be available through August 9, 2011. The replay dial in number is 888-203-1112 (Toll free) or 719-457-0820 (Toll) and the replay pin number is 1479597.

A live webcast of the call will be available through our website on our Investor Relations section at the following web address: [ http://www.amedisys.com/investors ].

Amedisys, Inc. (the aCompanya) is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Our common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol aAMED.a

About Amedisys, Inc.

Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED) is a leading health care company focused on bringing home the continuum of care. Amedisys delivers personalized health care services to patients and their families, in the comfort of patientsa™ homes, with approximately 10 million patient care and education encounters per year. Amedisys has two divisions, home health care and hospice. The Companya™s state-of-the-art advanced chronic care management programs and leading-edge technology enables it to deliver quality care based upon the latest evidence-based best practices. Amedisys is a recognized innovator, being one of the first in the industry to equip its clinicians with point-of-care laptop technology and referring physicians with an internet portal that enables real-time coordination of patient care. Amedisys also has the industrya™s first-ever nationwide Care Transitions program. Amedisys Care Transitions is designed to reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions through patient and caregiver health coaching and care coordination, which starts in the hospital and continues throughout completion of the patienta™s home health plan of care. For more information about the Company, please visit: [ www.amedisys.com ].

Our company website address is [ www.amedisys.com ]. We use our website as a channel of distribution for important company information. Important information, including press releases, analyst presentations and financial information regarding the Company is routinely posted on and accessible on the aInvestor Relationsa subpage of our website, which is accessible by clicking on the tab labeled aInvestorsa on our website home page. We will also use our website to expedite public access to time-critical information regarding the Company in advance of or in lieu of distributing a press release or a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (aSECa) disclosing the same information. In addition, we make available on the Investor Relations subpage of our website (under the link aSEC filingsa) free of charge our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, ownership reports on Forms 3, 4 and 5 and any amendments to those reports as soon as practicable after we electronically file such reports with the SEC. Further, copies of our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws, our Code of Ethical Business Conduct and the charters for the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees of our Board are also available on the Investor Relations subpage of our website (under the link aCorporate Governancea).