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Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Announces Third-Quarter 2022 Financial Results
ATLANTA, Nov. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAH), a leading, diversified home care platform focused on providing
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[{"type":"text","content":"ATLANTA, Nov. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAH), a leading, diversified home care platform focused on providing care to medically complex, high-cost patient populations, today announced financial results for the three and nine-month periods ended October 1, 2022. Tony Strange, Chief Executive Officer, commented “We continue to manage through a very difficult labor environment, and our results clearly do not meet our expectations. However, I am encouraged by signs of progress within our Private Duty and MS businesses. We are seeing our preferred payer partners embrace the idea of value-based pricing and can demonstrate that similar models will produce growth in caregivers and increased volume, all while producing savings and better outcomes for our payers, and ultimately creating long-term value for our shareholders. As mentioned on our second quarter call, we completed the system conversion for HHH from four operating systems to one with Homecare Homebase, which will create efficiencies and enhance our analytic capabilities. However, our results in Home Health and Hospice during the quarter were impacted by the conversion and fell below our expectations. We remain confident that this business will return to normal operating levels as we move through the end of 2022 and into 2023. I’d also like to thank all of our employees who worked tirelessly in preparing for and in response to Hurricane Ian. All patients and employees were accounted for within 24 hours of the storm, and relief efforts were underway immediately. This response is another example of the resiliency of the Aveanna team. We look forward to discussing our third quarter results, expectations for the fourth quarter, as well as preliminary expectations for 2023 on our upcoming earnings call” Mr. Strange concluded. Three-Month Periods Ended October 1, 2022 and October 2, 2021 Revenue was $443.0 million for the three-month period ended October 1, 2022, as compared to $411.3 million for the three-month period ended October 2, 2021, an increase of $31.7 million, or 7.7%. The overall increase in revenue was primarily attributable to a $28.5 million increase in Private Duty Services (\"PDS\") segment revenue and a $2.9 million increase in Home Health & Hospice (“HHH”) segment revenue compared with the prior year period. Gross margi...