Who we are
Assisteo Home Health is a leading provider of Medicare Certified Home Health Services that enables adults to be cared for in their home environment that is warm and familiar. Our highly qualified team clinicians: Nurses, Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapist, Medical Social Workers, and Home Health Aides, provide the highest quality care with compassion, commitment, and integrity. Our locally based office works with Medicare, most major insurance plans, managed care organizations and AHCCCS plans.
Assisteo Home Health is a clinically-focused company, committed to ensuring the very best quality of care for our patients. We do this by assuring that the clinicians caring for our patients are qualified. Our recruitment and hiring standards put this commitment into practice. We offer our clinicians the tools, direction and standards to enable them to do what they do best: provide skilled, compassionate care for our patients.
We have exciting Specialty Programs, which include but are not limited to, Orthopedic Home Rehabilitation, Complex Wound Care, Cardiac Health, Cardiopulmonary Programs-CHF, COPD, Stroke Recovery, Diabetic Teaching & Monitoring, etc. Assisteo has been working closely with local transitional programs to ensure a reduction in hospital readmission. Assisteo excels in proactively relaying important clinical information to our partners such as; physicians, facilities and payer groups.
Protector of the 3 rings of life! Body – Household – Community

Teri Ellerbe
Administrator

Cynthia Cloutier
Director of Nursing, MSN, FNP-C
Cynthia Cloutier is the Director of Nursing at Assisteo Home Health. Cynthia has many years in leadership, extensive knowledge in the home health industry, and has trained at The Joint Commission in Illinois. She brings with her vast knowledge with The Joint Commission, CMS, and state rules and regulations in home health. Cynthia has been the Director of Nursing in many successful Joint Commission surveys, ranging from one to five days, resulting in deficiency free results for organizations. Cynthia prides herself on communication which in turn significantly effects quality patient care and it is evident in her role here at Assisteo Home Health. Cynthia is a key part of Assisteo’s business development. She is involved in the creation and implementation of our specialty programs and presents these to potential referral sources.

Lisa Foster
PT, MPT COS-C
Lisa received her Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from the University of Arizona. She then continued her education to receive her Masters in Physical Therapy from the Mayo School of Health Related Sciences at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Sue Hilles
Operations Manager/Human Resources
Sue Hilles brings over 15 years of experience and a diverse background in healthcare to Assisteo Home Health. As the Operations Manager, Sue is focused on managing the day to day operations within the home health agency. Before joining Assisteo, Sue has served as the Operations Manager in home health, managed care utilization and enteral feeding. Sue has experience in contracting, credentialing, recruiting, network development and management, Medicare/AHCCCS, and Joint Commission rules & regulations, and a wide knowledge of healthcare. Sue is known for charismatic motivation of the team, and is able to sustain solid relationships with business partners to improve the overall profitability of the business. Sue also holds certificates in Human Resources, State of Arizona notary, AZCHER and EMS Safety as an instructor for CPR/First aide.

Christy Ervin
Director of Business Development

Linda Knapper
Community Liaison

David England
Community Liaison