LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 7, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apria Healthcare Group Inc. today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Apria Healthcare, Inc. ("AHI") has completed its asset acquisition of Praxair, Inc.'s (NYSE:PX) United States homecare business, which provided home respiratory services, home medical equipment and enteral nutrition therapies through a network of more than 80 branches across the country.