** Shares of homecare health service provider  ADUS.O  rise
~4% to $104 in morning trade
    ** Co to acquire Queen City Hospice that serves avg daily
census of ~900 patients across Ohio, for cash purchase price of
$192 mln  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nPn5CBmFca
    ** Co will fund acquisition through combination of cash on
hand and its revolving credit facility
    ** Queen City has annualized revenue of ~$56 mln, and we
expect transaction to be immediately accretive to our financial
results - CEO Dirk Allison
    ** YTD, stock up 5.6%  

 (Reporting by Shreyasee Raj in Bengaluru)
 ((Shreyasee.Raj@thomsonreuters.com;))