Senior Housing Properties Trust Fourth Quarter Conference Call Scheduled for Thursday, February 26th

Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE:SNH) today announced that it will issue a press release containing its fourth quarter and year end 2014 financial results before the NYSE opens on Thursday, February 26, 2015. Later that afternoon, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, President and Chief Operating Officer David Hegarty and Chief Financial Officer Richard Doyle will host a conference call to discuss these results.

The conference call telephone number is [phone]. Participants calling from outside the United States and Canada should dial [phone]. No pass code is necessary to access the call from either number. Participants should dial in about 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the call. A replay of the conference call will be available through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, March 5, 2015. To hear the replay, dial [phone]. The replay pass code is 352026.

A live audio webcast of the conference call will also be available in a listen-only mode on the company’s website, which is located at www.snhreit.com. Participants wanting to access the webcast should visit the company’s website about five minutes before the call. The archived webcast will be available for replay on the company’s website for about one week after the call.

Senior Housing Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns senior living communities, medical office buildings and wellness centers throughout the United States. SNH is headquartered in Newton, MA

A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of beneficial interest listed on the New York Stock Exchange.No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act or obligation of the Trust.

Senior Housing Properties TrustKimberly Brown, [phone]Director, Investor Relationswww.snhreit.com