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LHC Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides post-acute healthcare services primarily to Medicare beneficiaries in rural markets in the United States. The company offers various home-based services primarily through home nursing agencies and hospices; and facility-based services principally through long-term acute care hospitals and outpatient rehabilitation clinics. Its home nursing locations provide a range of services, including skilled nursing, home health aides, and medically-oriented social services, as well as physical, occupational, and speech therapy. The company's hospice services comprise pain and symptom management accompanied by palliative medication; emotional and spiritual support; spiritual counseling and family bereavement counseling; inpatient and respite care; homemaker services; dietary counseling; and social worker visits. It also operates long-term acute care hospitals that provide services primarily to patients who have transitioned out of a hospital intensive care unit with complex medical conditions. The company provides its outpatient rehabilitation services through physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech pathologists, as well as offers outpatient rehabilitation services on a contract basis. As of December 31, 2008, LHC Group owned and operated 206 home nursing locations, 19 hospices, and 7 long-term acute care hospitals. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana.

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Key Statistics

Closing Price	19.65
Volume	252837
Volume Avg	162211
52 Week High	30.54
52 Week Low	12.34
PE	N/A
PE (group average)	39
EPS Year	-0.73
EPS change Q/Q	-33.33%
EPS change Q/Q Yr ago	-35.38%
EPS change Q/Q next Q est	7.69%
EPS change Y/Y	0%
REV change Q/Q	-3.75%
REV change Q/Q Yr ago	11.43%
EPS next Q est	0.39
EPS next Y est	1.60
Divident Annual	0.00
Dividend Yield	0%