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Business Combinations - Textual (Details) - Home Health and Hospice Segment [Member] $ in Millions	May 01, 2018 USD ($)	Jan. 01, 2018 location
Hospice [Member] | Oklahoma City [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of Locations of an Acquired Entity | location		1
Subsequent Event [Member] | Camellia Healthcare [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cash purchase price | $	$ 135

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 13
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3213-108585

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