Amedisys has hired a national consulting firm to search for a new president/chief operating officer and for a new chief information officer. Russell Reynolds Associates will look inside and outside the Baton Rouge home health company to find a COO and CIO. Larry Graham, Amedisys president and COO, and Alice Ann Schwartz, CIO, both resigned last week. According to Reuters, Graham left because of a dispute over when he would take over as chief executive officer.
Amedisys also announced Dr. Michael O. Fleming would become chief medical officer. Fleming is a past president of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians, and is founding chairman of the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum.
