HealthSouth Corporation

Birmingham, AL United States

  (NYSE: HLS)

Company Description

HealthSouth is actually all over the map as one of the largest rehabilitation services providers in the nation. Its facilities include inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient centers, and home health care agencies that provide nursing and therapy to patients who are recovering from brain and spinal cord injuries, cardiac, and pulmonary conditions, or neurological disorders (stroke, aneurysm). Operating in more than two dozen states and Puerto Rico, HealthSouth owns or leases more than 120 facilities with roughly 6,400 beds. Most of HealthSouth's income is derived from its inpatient hospital operations, which are concentrated in the eastern half of the US and in Texas.