Encompass Health Corporation (EHC)
Rehabilitation hospitals, 42,300 employees, 34% per diem. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 13 of the 36 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
26%
End of 2028
38%
Employees, annual report
42,300
Leading staffing pattern
Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now26%
- End of 202735%
- End of 202838%
- End of 203040%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 59%
- Becomes checking a model's work 34%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing gives its people as three parts by status (rule 2) and nothing by kind of work, so one specialty hospital pattern by description (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 26% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 38% at the end of 2028, 40% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 40% desk work, 26% people work and 34% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 59% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 34% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
42,300 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). The hospitals are in the United States; the filing states no count by country.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed over 42,000 individuals: Full-time Employees 24,611, Part-time Employees 3,322, Pool/Per-diem Employees 14,367.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals | 100% | An operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals (Inpatient 97% of revenue) staffed by nurses, therapists and support staff; the filing states no count by hospital or kind of work, so one specialty hospital pattern by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 24,611 full-time, 3,322 part-time and 14,367 pool and per diem employees; 50 employees at one hospital represented by a union; over $4.6 million in tuition reimbursed in 2025.
What the filing says about AI
6 sentences in the filing name AI. Six sentences: AI's potential to amplify the impact and efficiency of its solutions, and state and local regulation of AI and data privacy in the absence of comprehensive federal law.
- “The evolution of artificial intelligence capabilities has the potential to amplify the impact and efficiency of these solutions.”
- “In the absence of comprehensive federal laws on data privacy and artificial intelligence, there is increased focus at the state and local level on regulating the collection, storage, use, retention, security, disclosure, transfer and other processing of confidential, sensitive and personal information and the use of artificial intelligence.”
- “In recent years, we have seen significant changes to data privacy and artificial intelligence regulations across the United States.”
- “Given the rapid development of cybersecurity, data privacy, and artificial intelligence laws, we expect to encounter inconsistent interpretation and enforcement of these laws and regulations, as well as frequent changes to these laws and regulations which may expose us to significant penalties or liability for noncompliance, the possibility of fines, lawsuits (including class action privacy lit...”
- “Any allegations of a failure to adequately address data 31 privacy or security-related concerns, even if unfounded, or to comply with applicable laws, regulations, standards and other obligations relating to data privacy and security and the use of artificial intelligence, could result in additional cost and liability to us, damage our relationships with patients and business partners and have...”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20256median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 42,000 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 40,000 | 2025-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 38,000 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 35,000 | 2023-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 43,400 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 43,000 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 18,980 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 18,280 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 17,940 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 17,187 | 2017-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 16,533 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 24,100 | 2015-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 23,600 | 2014-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 22,700 | 2013-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 22,000 | 2012-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 23,000 | 2011-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-01-20 | 22,000 | 2010-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 22,000 | 2009-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 22,000 | 2008-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 33,000 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 37,000 | 2006-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 40,000 | 2005-12-02 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 40,000 | 2005-06-27 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 51,537 | 2002-03-27 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 53,216 | 2001-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 51,260 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 77 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | not read | 1998-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | not read | 1997-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 100 | 1996-03-28 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 100 | 1995-03-08 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The total is the sum of the filing's table (24,611 full-time, 3,322 part-time, 14,367 pool and per diem); the filing says over 42,000.
- No count by hospital or kind of work: one specialty hospital pattern by description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000785161-26-000081, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Encompass Health Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 26% now and 38% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Encompass Health Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Encompass Health Corporation employ?
- 42,300 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states as the sum of the parts it gives.
- What kinds of work make up Encompass Health Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals; by those patterns the work is about 40% desk work, 26% people work and 34% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Encompass Health Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 6 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 6 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 2, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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