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Humana Inc. (), founded in 1961 in Louisville, Kentucky, is a Fortune 500
company that markets and administers health benefit consumer services. With
a customer base of over 11.5 million in the United States, the company is
the largest Fortune 500 company headquartered in the Commonwealth of
Kentucky, with a market cap of over $13 billion dollars and $21.4 billion
in revenue. Humana employs over 25,000 "associates" nationwide. Humana
markets its health benefit consumer services in all 50 states, D.C., Puerto
Rico and has international business interests in Western Europe. In its
March 2007 issue, Fortune Magazine named Humana one of the Top 5 Most
Admired Healthcare Companies in the United States.
History The company was founded by David Jones and Wendell Cherry as a
nursing home company in 1961. Then known as Extendicare, the company became
the largest nursing home company in the United States. Extendicare later
divested the nursing hom
