The Ensign Group to Present at the Eighth Annual JMP Securities Research Conference...

The Ensign Group to Present at the Eighth Annual JMP Securities Research
Conference on May 19th

MISSION VIEJO, Calif., May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Ensign Group, Inc.
(Nasdaq: ENSG), the parent company of the Ensign(TM) group of skilled nursing,
rehabilitative care services and assisted living companies, announced today
that it will participate in the Eighth Annual JMP Securities Research
Conference on May 19, 2009 at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco.

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Christopher Christensen, CEO, and Alan Norman, CFO, will review the company's
operations, growth strategy and related information at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time
on May 19, 2009.

A live audio webcast of the presentation will be accessible via Ensign's
website at www.ensigngroup.net. The webcast will be recorded and will be
available for replay via the website until 5:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on
Tuesday, May 26, 2009. It will also be available at
http://www.wsw.com/webcast/jmp8/ensg/ for 30 days following the presentation.

About Ensign(TM)
The Ensign Group, Inc.'s operating subsidiaries provide a broad spectrum of
skilled nursing and assisted living services, physical, occupational and
speech therapies, and other rehabilitative and healthcare services for both
long-term residents and short-stay rehabilitation patients, at 70 facilities
located in California, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Utah, Colorado and Idaho.
Each of these facilities is operated by a separate, wholly-owned independent
operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets.
References herein and in the presentation to the consolidated "Company" and
"its" assets and activities, as well as the use of the terms "we," "us," "our"
and similar verbiage are not meant to imply that The Ensign Group, Inc. has
direct operating assets, employees or revenue, or that any of the facilities,
the Service Center or the captive insurance subsidiary are operated by the
same entity. More information about Ensign is available at
http://www.ensigngroup.net.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995:
This press release contains, and the webcast will include, forward-looking
statements that are based on management's current expectations, assumptions
and beliefs about our business, financial performance, operating results, the
industry in which we operate and other future events. Forward-looking
statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects,"
"intends," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may,"
"will," "should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," "ongoing,"
similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. These
forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements
regarding our growth prospects, future operating and financial performance,
are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties
and assumptions that could cause our actual results to materially and
adversely differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

These risks and uncertainties relate to our business, our industry and our
common stock and include: reduced prices and reimbursement rates for our
services; our ability to acquire, develop, manage or improve facilities, our
ability to manage our increasing borrowing costs as we incur additional
indebtedness to fund the acquisition and development of facilities; our
ability to access capital on a cost-effective basis to continue to
successfully implement our growth strategy; our operating margins and
profitability could suffer if we are unable to grow and manage effectively our
increasing number of facilities; competition from other companies in the
acquisition, development and operation of facilities; and the application of
existing or proposed government regulations, or the adoption of new laws and
regulations, that could limit our business operations, require us to incur
significant expenditures or limit our ability to relocate our facilities if
necessary. Readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking
statements and are encouraged to review our periodic filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including our recently filed Forms 10-K
and 10-Q, for a more complete discussion of the risks and other factors that
could affect Ensign's business, prospects and any forward-looking statements.
Except as required by the federal securities laws, Ensign does not undertake
any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events, changing circumstances
or any other reason after the date of this press release or the webcast.

SOURCE The Ensign Group, Inc.

Robert East of Westwicke Partners LLC, +1-443-213-0500,
bob.east@westwickepartners.com, for The Ensign Group, Inc.; or Gregory
Stapley, Investor/Media Relations of The Ensign Group, Inc., +1-949-487-9500,
ir@ensigngroup.net