Merger with Home Oxygen Services in VA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10.1.09

(High Point, NC, October 1, 2009)  Effective October 1, 2009, Advanced Home Care, a High Point-based home care company that specializes in providing a full range of home health services and medical equipment, merged with Home Oxygen Services located in Lexington, Virginia.

Home Oxygen Services, previously a department of Carilion Clinic Stonewall Jackson Hospital, provided oxygen and nebulizers to patients in Rockbridge County and surrounding areas. Advanced Home Care will expand the services previously offered by Home Oxygen Services to include a full line of Home Medical Equipment (HME), respiratory therapy, and pharmacy services to patients in this area in a coordinated manner.

Advanced Home Care's senior leadership team, as well as representatives of Home Oxygen Services, are working diligently to ensure that the changes will result in a smooth transition and that patients experience no disruptions in service as a result of the merger.

Joel Mills, Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Home Care, states, "We are excited to have such a quality organization joining Advanced Home Care and look forward to providing enhanced services in this area for many years to come. Lexington is a great addition for Advanced Home Care and fits well with our other Virginia locations in Abingdon, Christiansburg, Roanoke, Salem, and Wise." 

About Advanced Home Care

Advanced Home Care is a not for profit home care organization that provides skilled home health services, respiratory therapy, infusion therapy, and medical equipment services to patients in their homes. One of the largest home health companies in the country, Advanced Home Care now has 28 branches located throughout North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, and is a joint venture of Moses Cone Health System, High Point Regional Health System, Novant Health, Alamance Regional Medical Center, and 8 other health systems throughout these areas. Advanced Home Care's headquarter is located in High Point, NC. For more information about Advanced Home Care, visit http://www.advhomecare.org/


Contact:
Joel Mills
336.878.8950
joel.mills@advhomecare.org

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