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Article: Homing in on home care: Columbia quietly builds largest hospital-based home-care firm in just two years.(Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- January 27, 1997
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Columbia quietly builds largest hospital-based home-care firm in just two years
Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. is pursuing home-care agencies as aggressively as it is hospital deals, but without as much fanfare.
In just two years, Columbia has built the country's largest hospital-based home-care company. Among all homecare providers, Columbia ranks behind only Olsten Health Services and Apria Healthcare Group in total revenues.
Columbia Homecare Group, based in Dallas, now owns 235 agencies with 323 branch locations in 30 states that brought in more than $1 billion in revenues in 1996.
"It's no longer appropriate to think of Columbia as ...