Home Health-Care Provider Closes in Knoxville, Tenn.
Posted on: Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 00:00 CST
By Bill Brewer, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.
Jan. 10--Housecall Medical Resources, a home health-care provider in five states, has closed a Knoxville operation, causing a loss of 69 jobs.
The company, which is a division of Louisiana-based Amedisys Inc., informed the state Department of Labor and Work Force Development on Jan. 5 that it closed the office at 311 S. Weisgarber Road on Dec. 31.
The state announced the closure Monday in its weekly disclosure of companies doing business in Tennessee that are either closing or laying off employees.
Housecall Medical Resources, which also has Knoxville operations at 1400 Centerpoint Blvd. and 6501 Deane Hill Drive and a number of home health-care offices throughout East Tennessee, referred all questions to Amedisys officials, who did not return calls for comment.
The state Dislocated Worker Unit/Rapid Response Services office plans to contact affected workers to inform them of training and benefits for which they may be eligible.
The employees were not represented by a collective bargaining agreement and it was not known if they were offered severance.
"We did not receive a company letter from them, and the employees were already dislocated before we were even aware of the event. Information we received revealed 61 were laid off on Dec. 31, 2005. The remaining eight will be laid off January, March, and the last employee will work through the end of June," Joe Fults, director of the Dislocated Worker Unit/Rapid Response Services, said Monday via e-mail.
"As the employees have already left, a letter will be mailed to them, inviting them to an informational rapid-response meeting," Fults added.
Housecall Medical Resources also has operations in Kentucky, Virginia, Florida and Indiana.
The company's beginnings were in 1971, when Home Health Care of East Tennessee opened as one of the first home-health companies in the country. The company was bought in 1982 by former employee Ray Evans, who grew the company into Housecall Health Care before selling a majority interest in 1994 to management buyout firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe.
Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe then formed the holding company Housecall Medical Resources, which became part of Amedisys.
Amedisys recorded 42.6 percent employee growth in 2004, when it had a work force of 3,594, earnings of $20.5 million on revenue of $227.1 million, according to Hoover's Online directory of U.S. businesses.
Major competitors include Coram Healthcare, Gentiva and Option Care.
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