American HomePatient, Inc.

American HomePatient, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide home health care services and products in the United States. It offers home respiratory services, including oxygen systems, such as oxygen concentrators, liquid oxygen systems, and high pressure oxygen cylinders; nebulizers and related inhalation drugs to assist patients with breathing; and respiratory assist devices to force air through respiratory passage-ways during sleep for patients with severe and chronic pulmonary diseases. The company’s other respiratory services include home ventilators, non-invasive positive pressure ventilation, apnea monitors, and home respiratory evaluations and related diagnostic equipment. It also provides various home infusion therapy services, including enteral nutrition, anti-infective therapy, total parenteral nutrition, and pain management, as well as other infusion therapies, such as chemotherapy, hydration, growth hormone and immune globulin therapies. In addition, the company engages in the rental and sale of a line of equipment and supplies, including wheelchairs, hospital beds, ambulatory aids, bathroom aids and safety equipment, and rehabilitation equipment to home care patients. As of April 3, 2007, American HomePatient provided these services to patients primarily in the home through 249 centers in 34 states. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee.