The founder of Amedisys, one of the country’s largest home health and hospice care providers that has five facilities in Connecticut, drowned near his home in Louisiana, according to a report Tuesday in Modern Healthcare.
Bill Borne, 58, died from accidental drowning, the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office confirmed.
Amedisys facilities in Connecticut include Beacon Hospice in East Hartford, and Amedisys Home Health in Hamden, Shelton, Danbury and Stamford.
Borne, a registered nurse by training, founded Amedisys in 1982 and served as the Baton Rouge-based company’s CEO and chairman until stepping down in 2014, Modern Healthcare said.
He is credited with converting a regional post-acute care provider into a national provider of home nursing services through various acquisitions. The company has 16,000 workers and more than 500 sites across 45 states, according to Modern Healthcare’s report.
