The Ensign Group Inc.’s home health and hospice portfolio subsidiary, Cornerstone Healthcare Inc., has acquired the assets of Hospice for Wright County in Iowa for undisclosed terms, Ensign says in a release. The hospice will be owned and operated by Heartland Healthcare Inc., a Cornerstone subsidiary, and do business under the name Gateway Hospice.
The Mission Viejo, Calif.-based post-acute and urgent care company now has sixteen hospice agencies and fifteen home health agencies, it notes in the release.