AREX Capital Management, LP (“AREX Capital Management” or “we”),
together with its affiliates, the owners of approximately 4.8% of
the shares of Enhabit, Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) (the “Company” or
“Enhabit”), today issued the below statement expressing its
disappointment in the conclusion of Enhabit’s strategic review.
“We are disappointed that Enhabit’s strategic
review process has concluded without a sale of the Company. We do
not believe that this failure reflects Enhabit’s intrinsic value or
strategic potential. Rather, this failure lies with Enhabit’s
Board. In March, we nominated a slate of seven highly qualified
candidates to stand for election at the 2024 Annual Meeting. We
chose not to publicly disclose our nomination to avoid disrupting
the strategic review process to the detriment of shareholders, but
clearly our hope that this Board might finally deliver a positive
result for its shareholders was wishful thinking.
We believe that Enhabit’s lackluster operating
performance relative to peers over the past two years plainly
demonstrates that the Board urgently needs the deep operational
expertise in home health and hospice that the AREX Slate would
bring. The AREX Slate is eager to begin the work of driving
improvement at Enhabit and maximizing value for all
shareholders.”
AREX SLATE BIOGRAPHIES
Megan Ambers
Ms. Ambers brings a deep understanding
of home health and hospice labor strategies, operations, payor
models, utilization, and organizational optimization to the
Board.
- Chief People Officer of Ivy Rehab Network, Inc., an
industry-leading outpatient and pediatric healthcare provider
offering physical, occupational, speech and ABA therapy.
- Previously served as the Senior Vice President of Workforce
Strategy, HR Innovation & Total Rewards at Amedisys, Inc.
(“Amedisys”), a leading provider of healthcare in the home with a
vision of becoming the premiere solution for patients across the
country to age in place, from 2018 to 2022, as well as the Interim
Chief Human Resources Officer of Amedisys from March 2022 to
October 2022.
James T. Corcoran
Mr. Corcoran brings extensive knowledge
of capital markets and corporate governance practices.
- Partner at AREX Capital Management.
- Previously a member of the board directors of Tuesday Morning
Corporation (NASDAQ: TUES), an off-price retailer, from 2017 to
2020, where he served on the Audit and Nominating and Governance
Committees.
Maxine Hochhauser
Ms. Hochhauser brings more than 30 years
of experience as a healthcare executive, focused mainly on home
health and home care operations, and a history of successfully
navigating challenging financial, regulatory, and payor
transitions.
- Chief Executive Officer of HealthPRO Heritage, a national
rehabilitation and health innovations company.
- Previously served as President of the Home and Community Based
Services Division of LHC Group, Inc., a provider of in-home
healthcare services and innovations for communities around the
nation, from 2019 to 2023.
- Previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Addus HomeCare
Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS), a leading provider home care services
that include personal care services that assist with activities of
daily living, from 2014 to 2017.
- Previously served as Senior Vice President of Enterprise
Operations of Amedisys from 2012 to 2014, and AllianceCare, Inc., a
private equity owned home healthcare company, from 2008 to
2012.
Mark W. Ohlendorf
Mr. Ohlendorf brings 30 years of diverse
experience in senior-related healthcare, including in the home
health, hospice, and senior housing markets in addition to his
financial and accounting expertise.
- Most recently served as the Managing Member of Four Peaks
Advisors, LLC, a consulting practice focused on post-acute
healthcare and related businesses, from 2016 to 2023.
- Previously served as President for Brookdale Senior Living,
Inc. (“Brookdale”) (NYSE: BKD), the largest operator of senior
living communities in the United States. During his tenure at
Brookdale, he served in a variety of executive leadership roles for
Brookdale and one of its predecessor companies from 1997 to 2016,
including service as Brookdale’s Chief Financial Officer from 2006
to 2015.
- Previously served as Vice President and CFO for VITAS
Healthcare Corporation, the nation’s largest hospice and palliative
care provider, from 1990 to 1997.
Anna-Gene O’Neal
Ms. O’Neal brings 35 years of healthcare
experience, including leadership positions in home health and
hospice operations, and a demonstrated ability to grow revenue and
improve the quality of patient care.
- Senior Vice President of Home Health, Hospice, and Palliative
Care at HarmonyCares, a Michigan-based provider of comprehensive
home-based healthcare services.
- Previously served as the President of Brookdale’s Health Care
Services division, where she was responsible for home health,
hospice, and outpatient therapy, from 2019 to 2021. She
subsequently served as President, Hospice Service Line for HCA
Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: HCA) (“HCA”) from 2021 to 2022, following
HCA’s acquisition of a majority stake in the business.
- Previously served as President and CEO of Alive Hospice, a
Tennessee-based non-profit hospice provider consistently ranked
among the best in the nation, from 2012 to 2019.
Dr. Gregory S. Sheff
Dr. Sheff brings extensive knowledge of
home health operations and insight into large payors along with
more than 20 years of healthcare experience, both as a practicing
physician and executive, with a particular focus on home- and
value-based care.
- Previously served as Interim President, Home Solutions at
Humana, Inc. (NYSE: HUM) from 2021 to 2022, as well as Chief
Medical Officer, Home Solutions, from 2020 to 2022. He oversaw
Humana’s home-focused delivery segment, where he was responsible
for operations, partnerships, and integration of multiple
home-based care assets, from primary care to hospital at home to
Medicare-certified home health.
- Previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical
Officer of AccentCare, one of the nation’s leaders in home-based
healthcare services, from 2015 to 2019.
Juan Vallarino
Mr. Vallarino brings more than 40 years
of experience in the healthcare industry, coupled with his
extensive knowledge of multifaceted home health and post-acute
experience along with a deep understanding of managed care payor
negotiations.
- President and Chief Executive Officer of MyLaurel Health, a
leader in providing high-acuity, high-complexity care in patients’
homes.
- Previously served as Chief Executive Officer of myNEXUS, a
leading provider of comprehensive home-based nursing management to
health insurers, from 2019 until its successful sale in 2021 to
Anthem Inc. (now known as Elevance Health, Inc. (NYSE: ELV)). He
also served myNEXUS as a Vice Chairman and in a strategic advisor
role from 2018 to 2019.
- Previously spent over two decades with HCA and its predecessor
companies from 1993 to 2016. Most recently he served as Senior Vice
President of Employer and Payer Engagement with responsibility for
over $30 billion in net revenue.
About AREX
AREX Capital Management, LP is a value-oriented
investment firm based in New York City. AREX takes a long-term,
opportunistic approach to investing and focuses primarily on
publicly traded companies with significant, unrealized
potential.
Media Contact
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Capital Management, LP(646) 679-4000info@arexcapital.com
CERTAIN INFORMATION CONCERNING THE
PARTICIPANTS
AREX Capital Master Fund, LP, an exempted
limited partnership organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands
(“AREX Capital Master”), together with the other participants named
herein, intends to file a preliminary proxy statement and
accompanying WHITE universal proxy card with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to be used to solicit votes for the
election of its slate of highly qualified director nominees at the
2024 annual meeting of stockholders of Enhabit, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “Company”).
AREX CAPITAL MASTER STRONGLY ADVISES ALL
STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER
PROXY MATERIALS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN
IMPORTANT INFORMATION. SUCH PROXY MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT NO
CHARGE ON THE SEC'S WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SEC.GOV. IN
ADDITION, THE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PROXY SOLICITATION WILL PROVIDE
COPIES OF THE PROXY STATEMENT WITHOUT CHARGE, WHEN AVAILABLE, UPON
REQUEST. REQUESTS FOR COPIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE
PARTICIPANTS' PROXY SOLICITOR.
The participants in the proxy solicitation are
anticipated to be AREX Capital Master, AREX Capital Partners, LP, a
Delaware limited partnership (“AREX Capital Partners”), AREX
Capital, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“AREX Limited”),
AREX Capital GP, LLC, a Delaware limited partnership (“AREX Capital
GP”), AREX Capital Management, LP, a Delaware limited partnership
(“AREX Capital Management”), AREX Capital Management GP, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (“AREX Capital Management GP”),
Andrew Rechtschaffen, Megan Ambers, James T. Corcoran, Maxine
Hochhauser, Mark W. Ohlendorf, Anna-Gene O’Neal, Dr. Gregory S.
Sheff, and Juan Vallarino.
As of the date hereof, AREX Capital Master
directly beneficially owns 549,277 shares of common stock, par
value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”) and has
economic exposure to an aggregate of 54,782 notional shares of
Common Stock pursuant to certain cash-settled total return swap
agreements. Each of AREX Capital Partners and AREX Limited, as
feeder funds of AREX Capital Master, may be deemed to beneficially
own the 549,277 shares of Common Stock owned by AREX Capital
Master. AREX Capital GP, as the general partner of AREX Capital
Master, may be deemed to beneficially own the 549,277 shares of
Common Stock owned by AREX Capital Master. AREX Capital Management,
as the investment advisor of each of AREX Capital Master and
certain accounts separately managed by AREX Capital Management (the
“AREX Managed Accounts”), may be deemed to beneficially own the
2,425,809 shares of Common Stock owned in the aggregate by AREX
Capital Master and held in the AREX Managed Accounts. AREX Capital
Management GP, as the general partner of AREX Capital Management,
may be deemed to beneficially own the 2,425,809 shares of Common
Stock owned in the aggregate by AREX Capital Master and held in the
AREX Managed Accounts. Mr. Rechtschaffen, as the Managing Member of
each of AREX Capital GP and AREX Capital Management GP, may be
deemed to beneficially own the 2,425,809 shares of Common Stock
owned in the aggregate by AREX Capital Master and held in the AREX
Managed Accounts. As of the date hereof, none of Mses. Ambers,
Hochhauser nor O’Neal, nor Messrs. Corcoran, Ohlendorf nor
Vallarino, nor Dr. Sheff own any shares of Common Stock.
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