{"id":89215,"date":"2011-04-28T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=89215"},"modified":"2011-04-29T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T19:30:05","slug":"company-expanding-into-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=89215","title":{"rendered":"Company Expanding into Longview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/04\/28\/company-expanding-into-longview\/thumb_longview-cityof-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89248\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/04\/thumb_longview-cityof.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_longview-cityof\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-89248\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW &#8212; The Longview Economic Development Corporation (LEDCO) announced Thursday that American Home Patient, Inc., one of the nation\u2019s largest home health care providers, will be expanding its Patient Contact Center Operations into Longview.   LEDCO officials say the company will occupy an existing building in Longview and will employ up to 220 people when fully operational.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economic impact to the Longview area will be significant,\u201d said Steve Metcalf, president of LEDCO, the economic development arm of the City of Longview.  \u201cAmerican Home Patient will invest in new equipment and facilities in the City of Longview, Gregg County and the Longview Independent School District.  The total payroll, benefits, capital investment and taxes paid will reach $80 million over the next ten years.\u201d  Local governments and LEDCO worked together for several months to attract the company to the area.  LEDCO will provide a $1.1 million performance grant over a 7-year period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; The Longview Economic Development Corporation (LEDCO) announced Thursday that American Home Patient, Inc., one of the nation\u2019s largest home health care providers, will be expanding its Patient Contact Center Operations into Longview. LEDCO officials say the company will occupy an existing building in Longview and will employ up to 220 people when fully &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=89215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Company Expanding into Longview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 23:09:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89215"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89519,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89215\/revisions\/89519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}