AFAM Almost Family Inc gains 17% Nov 28, 2017

Almost Family, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides home healthcare services in the United States. Its Visiting Nurse Services segment offers a range of Medicare-certified home health nursing services to patients in need of recuperative health care, as well as services to patients in lieu of additional care in other settings, including long term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, or skilled nursing facilities. This segment also provides special clinically-based protocols to medically complex, chronic, and co-morbid patients. The company's Personal Care Services segment provides personal care, medication management, meal preparation, caregiver respite, and homemaking services in patients' homes primarily on an as-needed, hourly basis. Its Healthcare Innovations Segment engages in the technology, information, population health management, risk-sharing, care coordination and transitions, clinical advancements, enhanced patient engagement, and informed clinical decision activities. The company operates 242 Medicare-certified home health agencies and 16 hospice branches in 258 locations; and 82 personal care locations. Almost Family, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky. http://www.priceseries.com/trade/AFAM-Almost-Family-Inc-stock-gains-17-percent-a-Trade-Record-by-priceSeries-2017111020171128.html