Skilled Healthcare Group to Present at the Oppenheimer Healthcare Conference and the Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference in November 2010

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. (NYSE: SKH) today announced that Boyd Hendrickson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Dev Ghose, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, are scheduled to present at Oppenheimer's 21st Annual Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7:15 AM Pacific / 10:15 AM Eastern. The conference is being held at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

Mr. Hendrickson and Mr. Ghose are also scheduled to present at the Credit Suisse Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM Pacific/12:00 PM Eastern at The Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona.

A copy of each presentation will be available on the Company's web site at www.skilledhealthcaregroup.com following Skilled Healthcare Group's scheduled appearances.

About Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc.

Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., based in Foothill Ranch, California, is a holding company with subsidiary healthcare services companies, which in the aggregate had trailing twelve month revenue of approximately $768 million and approximately 14,500 employees as of June 30, 2010. Skilled Healthcare Group and its wholly-owned companies, collectively referred to as the "Company", operate long-term care facilities and provide a wide range of post-acute care services, with a strategic emphasis on sub-acute specialty health care. The Company operates long-term care facilities in California, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas, including 79 skilled nursing facilities that offer sub-acute care and rehabilitative and specialty health skilled nursing care, and 22 assisted living facilities that provide room and board and social services. In addition, the Company provides physical, occupational and speech therapy in Company-operated facilities and unaffiliated facilities. Furthermore, the Company provides hospice and home health care in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Montana and New Mexico. References made in this release to "Skilled Healthcare", "the Company", "we", "us" and "our" refer to Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. and each of its wholly-owned companies. More information about Skilled Healthcare is available at its Web site -- www.skilledhealthcaregroup.com.

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