The Pennant Group, Inc. (PNTG)
Home health, hospice and senior living, 9,700 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 90 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
15%
End of 2028
20%
Employees, annual report
9,700
Leading staffing pattern
Home Health Care Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now15%
- End of 202719%
- End of 202820%
- End of 203020%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 79%
- Becomes checking a model's work 16%
- Handed over with lighter checks 3%
Pennant states approximately 9,700 employees at December 31, 2025 employed by its independent operating subsidiaries or its Service Center, running home health and hospice agencies (77% of revenue) and senior living communities (23%) with no count by segment, so the split is by revenue and 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: 15% now, 19% at the end of 2027, 20% at the end of 2028, 20% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 20% desk work, 29% people work and 50% 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 79% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 16% becomes checking a model's work and 3% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
9,700 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes home health, hospice and senior living operations in U.S. states; no count by country is stated.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 9,700 employees who were employed by our independent operating subsidiaries or our Service Center.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Home Health Care Services | 65% | The home health and hospice agencies, 77% of revenue, staffed by clinicians who visit patients at home, with no count by segment, take most of the workforce by description (c) at home health care services, which holds hospice. |
| Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly | 35% | The senior living communities, 23% of revenue, staffed around the clock with more people per dollar of revenue, counted by no figure, take a share by description (c), as Brookdale's communities were read. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Employed by the independent operating subsidiaries or the Service Center; payroll was 68.3% of total expenses in 2025; the count rose from 7,000 a year earlier with acquisitions; no union share is stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Home Health Care Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (AVAH, 32,000 employees)16% now, 21% by 2028
- BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. Common Stock (BTSG, 23,500 employees)22% now, 27% by 2028
- Chemed Corporation (CHE, 15,811 employees)17% now, 23% by 2028
- AdaptHealth Corp. (AHCO, 10,900 employees)19% now, 26% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
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 20250median 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 | 9,700 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 7,000 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 5,791 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 5,335 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 6,441 | 2022-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 5,223 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 4,700 | 2020-03-04 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the split is by revenue and description (c); the Service Center's count is not stated and stays inside.
- The U.S. share rests on the filing's description, not a stated count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001766400-26-000014, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of The Pennant Group, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 15% now and 20% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce The Pennant Group, Inc.'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 The Pennant Group, Inc. employ?
- 9,700 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up The Pennant Group, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Home Health Care Services; by those patterns the work is about 20% desk work, 29% people work and 50% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does The Pennant Group, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 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 19, 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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