Encompass Health Corp., which provides integrated post-acute health care services, and Saint Alphonsus Health System announced a joint venture agreement in Idaho. The joint venture includes the following locations: Saint Alphonsus home health and hospice locations in Boise, Idaho, and the Encompass Health home health and hospice locations in Boise and Nampa, Idaho. The transaction closed on January 1, 2022.
This new joint venture complements an earlier joint venture between Encompass Health and Saint Alphonsus that has been providing high-quality, cost-effective inpatient rehabilitative services in the market since 2019. Encompass Health is the fourth largest provider of Medicare-certified skilled home health services and a top 10 hospice provider organization in the country, based on 2019 Medicare reimbursements.
As a faith-based Catholic ministry and not-for-profit health system, Saint Alphonsus Health System reinvests in the communities they serve, through charity care and other benefits. Saint Alphonsus Health System’s goal is to improve the health and well-being of people by emphasizing care that is consumer-centered, primary care provider-led, innovative, and community-based. Saint Alphonsus Health System serves the people of southwestern Idaho, eastern Oregon and northern Nevada through these facilities: Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center – Boise, Idaho; Saint Alphonsus Regional Rehabilitation Hospital – Boise, Idaho, a joint venture with Encompass Health; Saint Alphonsus Medical Center – Nampa, Idaho; Saint Alphonsus Medical Center – Ontario, Oregon; Saint Alphonsus Medical Center – Baker City, Oregon; and Saint Alphonsus Medical Group with primary and specialty care providers at over 70 clinic locations, all of which are members of the Saint Alphonsus Health Alliance, a network of over 2,100 employed and independent health care clinical professionals.
Saint Alphonsus is a member of Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. Trinity Health serves people and communities in 22 states from coast to coast with 94 hospitals and 122 continuing care facilities, home health and hospice programs, and Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) center locations.
Encompass Health offers both facility-based and home-based consumer care through its network of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, home health agencies, and hospice agencies. With a national footprint that includes 145 hospitals, 249 home health locations, and 95 hospice locations in 42 states and Puerto Rico, the company provides high-quality, cost-effective integrated health care.
This was reported by Encompass Health on January 5, 2022.
Contact information: Casey Winger, Media Contact, Encompass Health, 3660 Grandview Parkway, Suite 200, Birmingham, AL 35243; 205-970-5912; Email: casey.winger@encompasshealth.com; Website: https://encompasshealth.com/
Contact information: Mark Snider, Media Contact, Saint Alphonsus Medical Center, 1512 12th Ave Rd, Nampa, ID 83686; 208-779-0560; Email: mark.snider@saintalphonsus.org; Website: https://www.saintalphonsus.org/
