Our home health care helps you recover safely and more independently in comfortable surroundings. Our caregivers work with your physician and provide care designed specifically for your needs and abilities, whether you need skilled nursing and rehabilitation or non-medical personal assistance.

1985, Louisville, Kentucky, United States

700 locations

53 employees

Hospitals, like Kindred Hospital Melbourne, utilize ProTouch, Kindred Healthcare’s proprietary touchscreen medical record system. ProTouch is used by more than 40,000 users in more than 30 clinical roles in 97 Kindred hospitals.

24,000 employees

More than two years after announcing a plan to exit the skilled nursing space, former industry giant Kindred Healthcare has sold off the final remaining standalone SNF in its portfolio. The Louisville, Ky.

As a non-profit health system with over 200 sites of care and affiliates throughout Central Indiana , Community’s full continuum of care integrates hundreds of physicians, specialty and acute care hospitals, surgery centers, home care services, MedChecks, behavioral health and employer health services.

In 2013, prior to the merger, Kindred operated 159 hospices in 13 states. While not-for-profit chains (many faith-based) are much smaller than their for-profit competitors, they too are adding patients in a drive for size. Many hospice advocates deeply distrust corporate chains.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (October 5, 2020) – Select Rehabilitation (“Select”) and Kindred Healthcare, LLC (“Kindred”) today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Select will acquire Kindred’s RehabCare business line.

Humana

(Reuters) -U.S. health insurer Humana Inc said on Tuesday it will acquire the 60% stake that it did not own in home health and hospice provider Kindred at Home from TPG Capital for $5.7 billion to expand its patient care business.

Kindred went public in 2001 on the New York Stock Exchange with the symbol KND. In December 2017, Kindred Healthcare Inc. announced that it would be acquired for approximately $4.1 billion by a consortium of three companies: TPG Capital, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) and Humana.

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. , a top-90 private employer in the United States , is a FORTUNE 500 healthcare services company based in Louisville, Kentucky with annual revenues of approximately $7 .

10,000 employees

Kindred Transitional Care Hospitals are licensed as acute care hospitals with an additional Medicare certification that supports a longer length of stay – usually weeks not days – as compared to the typical five day stay for patients in traditional hospitals.

Kindred is the white embrace of nothingness and the gnashing of teeth in the dark. Shepherd and the butcher, poet and the primitive, they are one and both. When caught on the edge of life, louder than any trumpeting horn, it is the hammering pulse at one’s throat that calls Kindred to their hunt.

A skilled nursing facility is an in-patient rehabilitation and medical treatment center staffed with trained medical professionals. They provide the medically-necessary services of licensed nurses, physical and occupational therapists, speech pathologists, and audiologists.

Skilled nursing care is typically provided for rehabilitation patients that do not require long-term care services. Nursing home care provides permanent custodial assistance, whereas a skilled nursing facility is more often temporary, to solve a specific medical need or to allow recovery outside a hospital.

Medicare covers care in a SNF up to 100 days in a benefit period if you continue to meet Medicare’s requirements.

Skilled nursing care is provided by trained registered nurses in a medical setting under a doctor’s supervision. It’s basically the same level of nursing care you get in the hospital. Patients may go from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility to continue recovering after an illness, injury or surgery.

Medicare Part A covers care in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) for up to 100 days during each spell of illness. If coverage criteria are met, the patient is entitled to full payment for the first 20 days of care.