VistaCare, Inc. provides hospice services designed to address the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients with a terminal illness through interdisciplinary teams of physicians, nurses, home health aides, social workers, spiritual and other counselors, and volunteers in the United States. It provides hospice services predominately in the patient’s home or other residence of choice, such as a nursing home or assisted living community, or in a hospital or inpatient unit. The company offers inpatient services at its inpatient units and through leased beds at unrelated hospitals and skilled nursing facilities on a per diem basis. Its services include pain and symptom management; emotional and spiritual support; nursing; personal care by home health aides; social services counseling; spiritual counseling; physician services; bereavement counseling; dietary counseling; and homemaker services. The company also provides medical equipment and supplies; medications; special palliative modalities, such as radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and infusion therapy; inpatient and respite care; physical, occupational, and speech therapy; and diagnostic testing. VistaCare markets its services through various referral sources, including hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, assisted living communities, home health organizations, home care (non-medical) organizations, managed care companies, community social service organizations, religious organizations, and patients and families. As of September 30, 2007, VistaCare operated 47 hospice programs and 6 inpatient units serving patients in 14 states, including Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. As of February 28, 2008, VistaCare Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Odyssey Healthcare Inc. (NasdaqNM: ODSY).