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Kindred Healthcare was a post-acute healthcare services company that operated long-term acute-care hospitals and provides rehabilitation services across the United States. Kindred's headquarters and support center were located in
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. In 2021 a transaction between Kindred Healthcare and
LifePoint Health LifePoint Health is an American company that provides healthcare services in growing regions, rural communities and small towns. It was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee. As of November 16, 2018, it operated 89 hospi ...
resulted in the creation of ScionHealth, a new healthcare system.


History

Kindred was founded in 1985 as Vencor, Inc. The name Kindred Healthcare was adopted on April 20, 2001, following Vencor's emergence from
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bankruptcy. Kindred went public in 2001 on the
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with the symbol KND. In February 2011, Kindred Healthcare agreed to acquire RehabCare Group for approximately $900 million in cash and stock to create, at the time, the largest post-acute health care services company in the
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. In October 2014, Kindred Healthcare, Inc. and
Gentiva Health Services Gentiva Health Services is a provider of home health care, hospice and related services in the United States. Gentiva is based in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a Fortune 1000 company with over $1.7 billion in annual revenue. Gentiva is a member of the ...
, a provider of home health care, hospice and related services in the United States, announced a merger agreement under which Kindred would acquire all outstanding shares of Gentiva common stock for $19.50 per share in a combination of cash and stock. The deal was officially signed into agreement effective January 31, 2015, with Gentiva becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Kindred. In June 2017, Kindred announced a definitive agreement with BM Eagle Holdings, LLC, a joint venture led by affiliates of BlueMountain Capital Management, to sell the company's skilled-nursing facility business for $700 million. The sale included 89 nursing centers with 11,308 licensed beds and seven assisted living facilities with 380 licensed beds, which collectively had approximately 11,500 employees in 18 states. In December 2017, Kindred Healthcare Inc. announced that it would be acquired for approximately $4.1 billion by a consortium of three companies:
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,
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), also referred to as Welsh Carson, is a private equity firm. WCAS was formed in 1979 and focuses on investing in two growth industries, technology and healthcare, primarily in the United States. WCAS has a ...
(WCAS) and
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. The acquisition was contested by shareholder Brigade Capital Management, who filed a suit with the SEC in March 2018 and submitted a letter to Kindred's board and management arguing that the $9 per share price offered by the deal was "grossly inadequate." Upon acquisition, the home health, hospice and community care businesses would be separated from Kindred and operated as a standalone company owned 40 percent by Humana, with the remaining 60 percent owned by TPG and WCAS. Kindred's long-term acute care hospitals, rehab hospitals and contract rehabilitation services businesses would be operated as Kindred Healthcare, a separate specialty hospital company owned by TPG and WCAS. The transaction was approved on April 5, 2018 and completed on July 2, 2018. Kindred's stock ceased trading on the New York Stock Exchange on June 29, 2018, as it transitioned to a privately held company. In 2019, Kindred and Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) launched Honeycomb classrooms, new innovation centers at local high schools, providing students with access to the latest technology. In 2021, Kindred was acquired by
LifePoint Health LifePoint Health is an American company that provides healthcare services in growing regions, rural communities and small towns. It was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee. As of November 16, 2018, it operated 89 hospi ...
, a hospital chain based in Brentwood, Tennessee. A new company, ScionHealth was created and included a combination of Kindred’s 61 long-term acute care hospitals and 18 of LifePoint’s community hospital campuses and health systems. ScionHealth consists of 79 hospital campuses in 25 states. LifePoint combined its remaining hospitals and outpatient centers with Kindred’s rehabilitation and behavioral health services.


Divisions

Kindred operated three divisions: Transitional Care Hospitals, Kindred Rehabilitation Services, and Kindred Behavioral Health.


Transitional Care Hospital

The Transitional Care Hospital division provided long-term acute care services to medically complex patients. Along with traditional freestanding hospitals, Kindred operated hospital-in-hospitals (HIH) that operated in a "host hospital" to provide long term acute care to patients it received from the short-term acute care units. In 2021 ScionHealth was created and incorporated this division.


Kindred Rehabilitation Services

Kindred's Rehabilitation division serves both Kindred and non-Kindred sites. Services are organized into two operating segments: skilled nursing rehabilitation services (SRS), in which Kindred provides contract therapy services across multiple settings including skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities, continuing care retirement communities and outpatient facilities; and hospital rehabilitation services (HRS), in which Kindred provides inpatient program management and therapy services to standalone inpatient rehabilitation facilities, hospital units, and outpatient services to hospital-based satellite programs. In June 2011, Kindred combined its previous rehabilitation division with its new acquisition of RehabCare, renaming the division after this acquisition. In January 2016, Kindred Healthcare Inc. and its subsidiary RehabCare Group Inc. agreed to pay $125 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit on Medicare therapy claim overbilling. The settlement ended an investigation into claims brought against the companies by former RehabCare therapists in a 2011 lawsuit. The suit claimed RehabCare routinely scheduled skilled nursing facility residents for higher levels of therapy than needed, resulting in therapy services were not reasonable or necessary, or never occurred. In October 2020 Kindred Healthcare announced the sale of the RehabCare division to Select Rehabilitation. The sale was completed in December 2020. In 2021 Kindred Rehabilitation services became a business unit of LifePoint Health.


Kindred Behavioral Health

Kindred Behavioral Health responds to the need of specialized behavioral health services that require compassion, including crisis stabilization, detoxification, mental health disorders, and other behavioral health issues. In 2021 Kindred Behavioral Health became a business unit of LifePoint Health.


See also

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References


External links


Kindred Healthcare
– Official Kindred Healthcare website
Kindred at Home
- Official Kindred at Home website
Kindred Healthcare SEC Filings

Kindred ranked on InformationWeek Elite 100 as number 77

Kindred Healthcare's article in Boston's MDNews
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