Kindred’s First Quarter Conference Call Scheduled for May 7

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE:KND) announced today that it will provide an online, real-time webcast of its conference call covering first quarter 2015 operating results on Thursday, May 7, 2015. The Company will issue its first quarter 2015 earnings release after the close of trading on Wednesday, May 6, 2015.

The live broadcast of the Company’s quarterly conference call will be available online at the Company’s website, http://investors.kindredhealthcare.com, on May 7, 2015, beginning at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The online replay will be available on the Company’s website at approximately 1:00 p.m. and continue for 30 days.

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 billion(1). 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.

(1)Revenues 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.

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