A local home health and hospice provided is reintroducing itself to the community with a new name.

Gentiva Home Health and Gentiva Hospice have been renamed Kindred At Home and Kindred Hospice “to best reflect our participation in the nationwide Kindred Healthcare network of home health and hospice providers, nursing and rehabilitation centers and long-term acute care hospitals,” explains information provided by the company.

Management, ownership and staff have not changed. “We have served the area since 1979, and we will continue to strive to provide the quality care our residents deserve and expect,” the press release goes on to say. “We are proud to be part of a network of caregivers, clinicians, information technology teams and support personnel with a goal of providing superior outcomes for our patients. At Kindred, we continue the care for patients and residents in sites of service across the entire post-acute continuum.

Kindred Healthcare Inc., a top-90 private employer in the United States, is a FORTUNE 500 healthcare services company based in Louisville, Ky., with annual revenues of approximately $7.2 billion. Sept. 30, 2016, Kindred through its subsidiaries had approximately 103,800 employees providing healthcare services in 2,714 locations in 46 states, including 94 transitional care hospitals, 19 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, 91 nursing centers, 19 sub-acute units, 647 Kindred at Home home health, hospice and non-medical home care sites of service, 104 inpatient rehabilitation units (hospital-based) and contract rehabilitation service businesses which served 1,740 non-affiliated sites of service.

Ranked as one of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Healthcare Companies for seven years, Kindred’s mission is to “promote healing, provide hope, preserve dignity and produce value for each patient, resident, family member, customer, employee and shareholder we serve.” For more information, go to www.kindredhealthcare.com or follow the company on Twitter and Facebook.

For additional details, contact Brenda Jones at 256-280-7458 or BrendaMarie.Jones@gentiva.com or visit www.kindredathome.com.