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Encompass Health and Vanderbilt Health announce plans to build a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Lebanon, Tennessee
Encompass Health Corp. (NYSE: EHC), the nation's largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, and Vanderbilt Health, one of the largest and most prominent academic health systems in the Southeast, today announced plans to build a freestanding, 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Barton Village, a mixed-use master planned community in Lebanon, Tennessee.
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