Encompass Health Corp

Encompass Health Corp is a provider of integrated healthcare services, which include facility-based and home-based patient care. The company operates its business through two segments – Inpatient Rehabilitation, and Home Health and Hospice. Its Inpatient Rehabilitation segment operates hospitals for specialised rehabilitative care and provides cost-effective patient care services. The Home Health and Hospice segment is a provider of Medicare-certified skilled home health services. The services include skilled nursing, physical, occupational and speech therapy, medical social work, and home health aide services. Encompass also offers evidence-based specialty programs related to post-operative care, fall prevention, chronic disease management, and transitional care. The teams of the company’s registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, physical, speech and occupational therapists, medical social workers, and home health aides work closely with patients, their families, and physicians to deliver care plans with a focus on patient needs. It provides hospice services to terminally ill patients and their families. The Hospice segment focuses on the quality of life for patients who are at an advanced stage of life-limiting illness while treating the person and symptoms of the disease. Hospice care teams consist of physician medical directors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, therapists, hospice aides, and volunteers.