Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Regional Chain Buys KY Hospital-Based HHA
Published on Tue Aug 03, 2010
• LHC Group Inc. has acquired the assets of Haggin Home Health from The James B. Haggin Memorial Hospital in Harrodsburg, Ky. The newly acquired agency will operate under the name Lifeline Health Care of Harrodsburg, the Lafayette, La.-based regional chain says in a release. The agency in the certificate of need state has annual revenues of about $400,000, LHC says.
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