Administrative and consultative services are provided to Skilled Healthcare Group subsidiaries and other businesses by Skilled Healthcare, LLC pursuant to service contracts. Skilled Healthcare, LLC provides a broad range of administrative, consultative, and support services to the independent subsidiary businesses which include skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, Hallmark Rehabilitation, Inc. and Hospice Care of the West.

The Skilled Healthcare, LLC philosophy is as follows:

" To create a culture within and for business affiliates that attracts and retains innovative, caring, and ethical personnel that provide quality clinical, rehabilitative, support, and administrative services for seniors."

The service offerings provided vary widely and offer significant value to those being served. These values are identified as:

• Attract and hire the best management team in the profession to deliver the desired results
• Dominate the Medicare/Managed Care market by focusing on a medical model/high acuity business model
• Create better relationships for the business affiliates than their competition in the communities they serve
• Promote long-term care management indicator results as expectations that become as second nature to our operations support team and business affiliates.

Following this philosophy, Skilled Healthcare, LLC believes that when providing effective and high quality services to their business affiliates, the business affiliates, in turn, can provide high quality care to their patients and residents.

The services provided include:

• Accounting and Administrative Services
• Accounts payable and processing
• Auditing
• Budgetary development and support
• Bulk purchasing
• Business information and communications
• Cash management services
• Clinical consulting
• Compliance services
• Cost report preparation and audit representation
• Design and decorating services
• Employee fringe benefits review and products
• Human resources development
• Information Systems and Information Technology support
• Insurance review and insurance products
• Legal services
• Managed care contracting
• Marketing systems and services
• Operational consulting and oversight support
• Public Affairs
• Reimbursement consulting
• Tax - Federal income tax preparation
• Tax - Local personal property and real estate - tax preparation
• Tax - State income tax preparation

For more information on Skilled Healthcare, LLC, please visit http://www.skilledhealthcare.com