AS11463 KINDREDHEALTHCARE

KINDREDHEALTHCARE belongs to Kindred Healthcare, Inc., the Louisville, Kentucky operator of long-term acute care hospitals. Since December 2021 the Kindred hospital business has sat inside ScionHealth, formed when LifePoint Health and Kindred combined their hospital portfolios; the Kindred Hospitals brand and this AS number survived the reorganisation. It announces four IPv4 prefixes, about 2,048 addresses, with one observed BGP neighbour.

What it's used for

A hospital operator's corporate edge. The address footprint is tiny relative to the size of the organisation, which is the norm for healthcare: clinical systems, imaging and EMR traffic live on private networks and VPNs, and the publicly routed space carries only the outward-facing slice.

Notable

The prefix registrants tell the network's procurement history rather than raising a flag. 199.231.192.0/23 registers directly to Kindred Healthcare, Inc.; 12.157.188.0/22 is a SWIP reassignment inside AT&T's legacy 12/8 (KINDRED-49-188, org Kindred); 216.248.24.0/24 is TELCOVE-LSVLKY-KINDRED — carrier-assigned space from the old TelCove network, named for Louisville, KY, and now registered to Kindred. Only 207.15.10.0/24 registers to a genuinely different org, Cogent Communications, and that is provider-assigned space from an upstream, not a third party leasing address blocks. Three of four prefixes carry Kindred's name in the registry.

Interesting

This is a textbook example of why the registrant column has to be read carefully. Four prefixes, three distinct carriers' naming conventions, and one block registered outright to a transit provider — the same surface pattern that a leased-address operation produces, arrived at here purely by buying connectivity from several carriers over three decades.