FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 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 the Credit Suisse 18^th Annual Global Health Care Conference on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 1:00 PM Pacific / 4:00 PM Eastern. The conference is being held at The Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, AZ.

A copy of the presentation will be available on the Company’s web site at www.skilledhealthcaregroup.com after the presentation.

About Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc.

Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. (“Skilled Healthcare”), based in Foothill Ranch, California, is a holding company with subsidiary healthcare services companies, which in the aggregate have consolidated annual revenues of over $750 million and approximately 14,000 employees. Skilled Healthcare 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 medical care. As of September 30, 2009, the Company currently operates facilities in California, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas, including 77 skilled nursing facilities which offer sub-acute care and rehabilitative and specialty medical skilled nursing care, and 22 assisted living facilities which 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 care in the California and New Mexico markets. 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.