Gentiva® Health Services Comments on Senate Finance Committee Requests

ATLANTA, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTIV), a leading provider of home health and hospice services, announced that it is reviewing a letter that it has been sent by the Senate Finance Committee to all of the publicly traded home healthcare companies and were mentioned in a recent Wall Street Journal article.  The letter requests that the companies provide various data related to the utilization of services. Gentiva will cooperate with the Committee's requests.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060323/NYTH117LOGO )

"We welcome this opportunity to better inform the members of the Committee and broader audiences about the important role that home care plays in addressing the needs of our nations' growing senior population, " said Tony Strange, CEO and President.  "Home healthcare is a cost-effective, clinically sophisticated service that treats seniors where they prefer to receive their care, in their homes. I am proud of the care that our thousands of home healthcare clinicians provide to patients each and every day, as well as the measures that Gentiva takes to ensure its appropriateness." 

About Gentiva Health Services, Inc.

Gentiva Health Services, Inc. is a leading provider of home health and hospice services, delivering innovative, high quality care to patients across the United States. Gentiva is a single source for skilled nursing; physical, occupational, speech and neurorehabilitation services; hospice services; social work; nutrition; disease management education; help with daily living activities; and other therapies and services. For more information, visit Gentiva's web site, http://www.gentiva.com, and its investor relations section at http://investors.gentiva.com.

SOURCE Gentiva Health Services, Inc.