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- Our first joint partnership was
with Opelousas General Hospital.
In four years, Ginger and her team of nurses
had built a home health agency
that had earned the lion's share of the market.
And the hospital had a home health agency,
and they were thinking about closing the agency down.
- That home health was known so well in the community,
as the hospital was,
and they did a beautiful job with what they could.
It was like, why should that go away.
- [Keith] Proactively, I mean, we reached out
to the hospital and said, "What about if we combined
the two home health agencies and become partners."
- Our focus at LHC Group on excellence, clinical excellence,
and this is objectively measured by this organization.
So they provide some of the highest quality home care
that's available in the country today.
So now we'll be able to take the skills
and offerings of LHC Group and offer them
to Optum Health patients much, much more broadly.
We have over 4 million patients in value-based arrangements
and we're very excited to be able to offer the services
of LHC Group to these individuals.
- I'm most proud of how many people
that LHC Group can reach out to
and really make a difference.
In the elderly or in the hospice patients,
we can actually make the final years
of people's lives the finest years of their life.
- As a practicing emergency physician,
I've seen firsthand how healthcare can work amazingly well,
and I've seen firsthand what happens
when someone doesn't have access
to primary care or home care
and ends up in an emergency room in a crisis.
At Optum, we're constantly challenging ourselves to say,
"How can we do more to serve the patients
and people who need healthcare?"
We've recognized that we have an opportunity
to be able to provide more care in the home.
Particularly as people age, many prefer to age in place,
how can we serve their healthcare needs?
As people return from a hospital setting,
how can we help them get back on their feet more quickly
by providing that care in the home?
So it's honestly a perfect match.
Both organizations have a deep commitment to excellence
and service of others.
And LHC Group brings this comprehensive set of capabilities
that helps to care for people in the home
and fits in very nicely with our already established home
and community care offerings.