| ENSG Description: The Ensign Group, Inc. provides health care services in the post-acute care continuum, urgent care center, and mobile ancillary businesses in the United States. It operates through two segments, Transitional, Skilled and Assisted Living Services; and Home Health and Hospice Services. The company offers various healthcare services, such as skilled nursing, assisted living, home health and hospice, mobile ancillary, and urgent care services. Its skilled nursing facilities provide a range of medical, nursing, rehabilitative, and pharmacy services, as well as routine services comprising daily dietary, social, and recreational services to Medicaid, private pay, managed care, and Medicare payors; and assisted and independent living facilities offer residential accommodations, activities, meals, security, housekeeping, and assistance in the activities of daily living to seniors who are independent. The company’s home health care services include nursing, speech, occupational and physical therapists, medical social workers, and certified home health aide services; and hospice care services, such as physical, spiritual, and psychosocial needs, including palliative and clinical care, education, and counseling for terminally ill individuals and their families. Its urgent care centers provide daily access to healthcare for minor injuries and illnesses, including X-ray and lab services; and mobile diagnostic services, including digital X-ray, ultrasound, electrocardiograms, patient transportation, ankle-brachial index, and phlebotomy services to people in their homes or at long-term care facilities. As of February 10, 2016, the company had 187 healthcare facilities, 14 hospice agencies, 15 home health agencies, 3 home care businesses, and 17 urgent care clinics in California, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, Wisconsin, Kansas, and South Carolina. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Mission Viejo, California. |
