Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), one of America's leading home health nursing companies, today announced that Fortune magazine named Amedisys on its list of the 10 Best Stocks for 2010 in its issue dated December 21, 2009.
“with an aging population ever more in need of its services, Amedisys seems poised to thrive, and its shares should recover, no matter what happens in Congress.”
The article states that Amedisys has had a 32%-a-year earnings growth over the past five years. They further write that “with an aging population ever more in need of its services, Amedisys seems poised to thrive, and its shares should recover, no matter what happens in Congress.”
“We are pleased to be recognized as a top investment pick by Fortune magazine. The guiding principles of our company are to provide superior clinical service to our patients, grow our business aggressively and become as operationally efficient as possible which gives us a strategic advantage in growing both our home health and hospice divisions and will allow us to evolve into a premiere post acute care complex chronic care provider,” stated William F. Borne, Chief Executive Officer of Amedisys, Inc.