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UPDATE — Pennant Completes Purchase of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama Operations from UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys
EAGLE, Idaho, Oct. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Pennant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNTG), the parent company of the Pennant group of affiliated home health, hospice, home care and senior living companies, announced today that on October 1, 2025, it acquired certain operations from UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (“UnitedHealth”). The operations were divested pursuant to UnitedHealth’s acquisition of Amedisys Inc. by UnitedHealth’s Optum unit. Pennant is purchasing divested home health, hospice and
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