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6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Service Revenues and Sales and After-Tax Earnings by Business Segment


	Three months ended						Six months ended
	June 30,						June 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Service Revenues and Sales
VITAS	$	243,095		$	226,638		$	478,768		$	449,578
Roto-Rooter		90,265			88,357			185,510			174,230
Total	$	333,360		$	314,995		$	664,278		$	623,808

After-tax Earnings
VITAS	$	18,589		$	18,281		$	36,714		$	36,719
Roto-Rooter		9,092			8,860			17,602			16,673
Total		27,681			27,141			54,316			53,392
Corporate		(7,395	)		(8,286	)		(15,929	)		(15,179	)
Net income	$	20,286		$	18,855		$	38,387		$	38,213

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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