HealthSouth Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is the United States' largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitative hospitals. Operating in 33 states across the country and in Puerto Rico, HealthSouth serves patients through its network of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals (120), outpatient rehabilitation satellite clinics (29), and home health and hospice agencies (165). HealthSouth states that its "hospitals provide a higher level of rehabilitative care to patients who are recovering from conditions such as stroke and other neurological disorders, cardiac and pulmonary conditions, brain and spinal cord injuries, complex orthopedic conditions, and amputations"; and that subsidiary Encompass "provides a comprehensive range of Medicare-certified home nursing services to adu