Kindred to Participate in the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2015 Smid Cap Conference

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. ("Kindred" or the "Company") (NYSE: KND) today announced that Benjamin A. Breier, President and Chief Executive Officer-elect, and Stephen D. Farber, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be participating in a group discussion at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2015 Smid Cap Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, March 17, 2015, at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

The discussion is being audio webcast and can be accessed at the Company's website at http://investors.kindredhealthcare.com and at http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/baml/smidcap2015/id69103287691.cfm.

Any written materials accompanying the conference also will be available on Kindred's website at the time of the event. The webcast and any written materials accompanying the conference will be archived at http://investors.kindredhealthcare.com after the event.

About Kindred Healthcare

Kindred Healthcare, Inc., a top-85 private employer in the United States, is a FORTUNE 500 healthcare services company based in Louisville, Kentucky with annual revenues of approximately $7.2 billion¹. At December 31, 2014, on a pro forma basis to include Gentiva and Centerre, Kindred through its subsidiaries had approximately 103,000 employees providing healthcare services in 2,872 locations in 47 states, including 97 transitional care hospitals, 16 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, 90 nursing centers, 22 sub-acute units, 634 Kindred at Home hospice, home health and non-medical home care locations, 100 inpatient rehabilitation units (hospital-based) and a contract rehabilitation services business, RehabCare, which served 1,913 non-affiliated facilities. Ranked as one of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Healthcare Companies for six years, 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. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

¹Revenues were computed by combining the twelve months ended December 31, 2014 data for Kindred, Gentiva Health Services, Inc. ("Gentiva"), which was acquired by the Company on February 2, 2015, and Centerre Healthcare Corporation ("Centerre"), which was acquired by the Company on January 1, 2015.