Skilled Healthcare Group to Present at the Ninth Annual JMP Securities Research Conference

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 Ninth
Annual JMP Securities Research Conference on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 11:30 AM
Pacific / 2:30 PM Eastern. The conference is being held at The Ritz Carlton in
San Francisco.

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. based in Foothill Ranch, California, is a holding
company with subsidiary healthcare services companies, which in the aggregate
had consolidated annual revenues of over $750 million and approximately 14,000
employees as of December 31, 2009. 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 health care. The Company operates
facilities in California, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas,
including 78 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 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.

Investor Contact:
Skilled Healthcare Group
Dev Ghose or Shelly Hubbard
949-282-5800

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