Gentiva Health Services to cooperate with Senate Finance Committee's requests

May 15 2010

Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTIV), a leading provider of home health and hospice services, announced that it is reviewing a letter that it has been sent by the Senate Finance Committee to all of the publicly traded home healthcare companies and were mentioned in a recent Wall Street Journal article.  The letter requests that the companies provide various data related to the utilization of services. Gentiva will cooperate with the Committee's requests.

"We welcome this opportunity to better inform the members of the Committee and broader audiences about the important role that home care plays in addressing the needs of our nations' growing senior population, " said Tony Strange, CEO and President.  "Home healthcare is a cost-effective, clinically sophisticated service that treats seniors where they prefer to receive their care, in their homes. I am proud of the care that our thousands of home healthcare clinicians provide to patients each and every day, as well as the measures that Gentiva takes to ensure its appropriateness."