As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 22, 2004
Registration No. 033-55657

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-8

Registration Statement
Under
The Securities Act of 1933

CORAM HEALTHCARE CORPORATION

1675 Broadway, Suite 900
Denver, Colorado 80202
(303) 292-4973
(Address, including zip code, and
telephone number, including area
code, of registrant’s principal
executive offices)

Allen J. Marabito,
Executive Vice President
1675 Broadway, Suite 900
Denver, Colorado 80202
(303) 292-4973
(Name, address, including
zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent
for service)

Copy to:
Joseph J. Devine, Esquire
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
1600 Market Street, Suite 3600
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-7286
(215) 751-2415

     Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public: Not applicable to this Amendment

     If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. o

     If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. o

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DE-REGISTRATION OF SHARES

     Coram Healthcare Corporation (the “Registrant”) hereby requests the de-registration of any and all remaining unsold shares of its common stock that were previously registered pursuant to this Registration Statement.

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SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

1) Upon approval of the Chapter 11 Trustee’s appointment by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on March 7, 2002, the Chapter 11 Trustee assumed the duties and powers of the Registrant’s Board of Directors.

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