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Kindred Healthcare's Second Quarter Conference Call Scheduled for August 9

The live broadcast of the Company's quarterly conference call will be available online at www.earnings.com and at the Company's website, http://investors.kindredhealthcare.com, on August 9, 2011, beginning at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The online replay will be available on the websites www.earnings.com and http://investors.kindredhealthcare.com at approximately 1:00 p.m. and continue for 30 days.

About Kindred Healthcare

Kindred Healthcare, Inc., a top-150 private employer in the United States, is a healthcare services company based in Louisville, Kentucky with annual revenues of $6 billion and approximately 76,000 employees in 46 states. On June 1, 2011, Kindred through its subsidiaries provided healthcare services in over 2,000 locations, including 121 long-term acute care hospitals, five inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, 224 nursing and rehabilitation centers, 113 inpatient rehabilitation units (primarily hospital-based) and a contract rehabilitation services business, RehabCare, which served approximately 1,560 non-affiliated facilities. Ranked as one of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Healthcare Companies for three years in a row, Kindred's mission is to promote healing, provide hope, preserve dignity and produce value for each patient, resident, family member, customer, employee and shareholder we serve. For more information, go to www.kindredhealthcare.com.

Kindred Healthcare, Inc.
Vice President, Communications
Susan E. Moss, 502-596-7296