Company Profile
Patient Transport Services/CHI Health at Home
Company Overview
CHI Health at Home is a full service health care organization that believes the best place for someone to get better, and faster, is in their own home. Home is a place of comfort, a place where we can thrive. Every day, we work to find bold new ways to help our patients stay in their home longer, no matter what health concern they are facing. Our commitment is to provide the best quality and comprehensive home health to the communities we serve by offering unique services dedicated to meeting the total needs of our patients.
CHI Health at Home, located just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, provides services in Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington. With nearly 3,350 associates throughout the organization, CHI Health at Home provides five distinct but coordinated home-based health care services, including:
Home care
Hospice
Home infusion (I.V.) therapy
Home medical equipment
Medical transportation
The partnership and collaboration between these service lines positions CHI Health at Home as a leader in post-hospital home health care. Our continuum allows us to focus on growing into new communities, expanding the services we offer in our current markets, and creating new partnerships with health care providers to improve the health of patients and the community as a whole.
Company History
Our services reach thousands of people every day. From our humble beginnings in 1976 servicing one mid-western state, we have grown, caring for patients throughout the United States. Although our footprint is large, it is our mission to treat each patient and the community they live in as we would our own family.
CHI Health at Home was founded in Cincinnati, OH in 1976 as our home health care and staffing agency, American Nursing Care (ANC). In 1984, the organization was purchased by a local hospital, Bethesda, and added another service line supporting medical transportation, called Patient Transport Services. As the organization grew, home infusion, pharmacy and home medical equipment services were added in 1986 under the name AmeriMed to meet the expanding needs of our home care patients.
While providing operational support to each of our services lines has always been a top priority for CHI Health at Home, in 1999 Consolidated Health Services was formed as an umbrella organization to unite each unique service line under one entity and manage such functions as Human Resources, Information Technology, Finance, Revenue Cycle, and Payroll. In 2004, AmeriMed entered into a joint venture with CornerStone Medical to provide home medical equipment and oxygen services, so AmeriMed could focus solely on home infusion therapy, products, and services.
These growing partnerships led the way to collaborating with local health care systems in a variety of our markets, expanding each of our service lines beyond their original scope. Our commitment to providing excellent care and our ability to collaborate with local health care systems provided the opportunity for us to expand each of our service lines in existing markets and create new partnerships in communities across the country.
In 2010, Consolidated Health Services, overseeing the operations for each service line, joined Catholic Health Initiatives to serve as CHI’s national home health provider; CHI Health at Home. As Catholic Health Initiatives home-based services provider, CHI Health at Home partnered with local hospital systems across all of CHI’s enterprise to operate its home health services.