Amedisys, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has named Richard Ashworth as President and member of the Board of Directors. Ashworth is a pharmacist and a highly respected and accomplished healthcare executive with expertise in driving transformational growth, large scale operations management, shaping public health policy, and creating shareholder value. Ashworth was most recently President and CEO for Tivity Health, a leading provider of healthy life-changing solutions for Medicare Advantage plans.

Under his leadership, Ashworth delivered significant shareholder performance, achieving a return of more than 300%, drove industry leading employee engagement, and built strong relationships with Medicare Advantage payers. Prior to that, Ashworth served as President of Walgreen Co., and was responsible for creating and delivering the strategic direction of the retail and pharmacy business; leading 275,000 employees to deliver extraordinary customer care and achieving some of the company's highest employee engagement scores; completely transforming the operating model to empower employees to better focus on the patient- and customer-experience; driving digital acceleration; and overseeing the financial performance of 9,500 locations nationwide with over $115 billion in revenue.