BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (February 23, 2009) - Amedisys, Inc. (Nasdaq: "AMED"), one of America's leading home health nursing companies, today announced that it will host its first Investor/Analyst Day in New York on Thursday, February 26, 2009 between 8:30 a.m. ET and 11:30 am ET. The Company anticipates that it will discuss its corporate strategy and performance metrics followed by a question and answer session. The Company intends to webcast the event for those not able to attend in person.

The presentation will be available on the Internet live and in our archived section thereafter on our Investor Relations page at the following web address:

http://www.amedisys.com/investors

William F. Borne, Chief Executive Officer of Amedisys will ring the NASDAQ closing bell on Thursday, February 26, 2009. The NASDAQ closing bell ceremony will be aired live at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time at http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_about.stm, on NASDAQ's MarketSite Tower at 43rd and Broadway in New York City and can also be seen on CNBC and other networks. To view the Closing Bell Ceremony, log on to the above website approximately 10 minutes prior to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Amedisys, Inc. is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Our common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "AMED".

Our company website address is www.amedisys.com. We use our website as a channel of distribution for important company information. Important information, including press releases, analyst presentations and financial information regarding the Company is routinely posted on and accessible on the "Investor Relations" subpage of our website, which is accessible by clicking on the tab labeled "Investors" on our website home page. We will also use our website to expedite public access to time-critical information regarding the Company in advance of or in lieu of distributing a press release or a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") disclosing the same information. In addition, we make available on the Investor Relations subpage of our website (under the link "SEC filings") free of charge our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, ownership reports on Forms 3, 4 and 5 and any amendments to those reports as soon as practicable after we electronically file such reports with the SEC. Further, copies of our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws, our Code of Ethical Business Conduct and the charters for the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees of our Board are also available on the Investor Relations subpage of our website (under the link "Corporate Governance").