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Hospice News:
National Chain Makes Southeast Buy
Published on Wed Mar 16, 2016
National home care chain LHC Group has acquired the assets of Heartlite Hospice, a subsidiary of Hospice of America Inc., the Lafayette, La.-based for-profit says in a release.
Heartlite has two locations in the Certificate of Need state of Alabama and two in Georgia, and has annual revenues of about $6.8 million, the release says
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