HealthSouth is a health care company focusing on facility-based and home-based post-acute healthcare services, inpatient rehabilitation, and home health and hospice care. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, the company operates through two primary segments: Inpatient Rehabilitation and Home Health and Hospice. The Inpatient Rehabilitation segment offers specialized rehabilitative treatment for patients recovering from conditions including stroke, neurological disorders, cardiac and pulmonary conditions, brain and spinal cord injuries, complex orthopedic conditions, and amputations. As of 2016, HealthSouth operated 123 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and managed five additional units through management contracts.
The Home Health and Hospice segment of HealthSouth provides comprehensive home health and hospice services across 25 states in the United States, primarily in the Southeast, Oklahoma, and Texas. These services include Medicare-certified home nursing care for adult patients, skilled nursing, medical social work, home health aide services, as well as physical, occupational, and speech therapy. The hospice services focus on the physical needs of terminally ill patients and their families through pain control and symptom management while providing emotional and spiritual support. HealthSouth's CEO is Mark Tarr, and the company employs approximately 29,298 people with an annual revenue of $3.8 billion.
