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NEWS FROM________________________________________

Media Contact: Sam Billig 702.939.9401 [email protected] For Immediate Release March 3, 2016

HEALTHSOUTH HENDERSON RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE TOP 10 PERCENT INPATIENT REHABILITATION FACILITIES IN THE U.S.

HENDERSON, Nev. – HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Henderson has received top recognition from Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR®) for the eighth year. The hospital ranked in the top ten percent of qualifying rehabilitation hospitals for 2015 as well as 2006- 2012. UDSMR® is a non-profit group that evaluates rehabilitation hospitals on their delivery of quality care that is effective, efficient, timely and patient-centered. To determine the rankings, UDSMR® uses a system that measures the efficiency and effectiveness of a hospital’s rehabilitation programs. The system evaluates and tracks a patient’s progress through the rehabilitation process to document gains. This is the tenth year that UDSMR® has issued the awards. In 2015, HealthSouth Henderson is pleased to report that:

• The average length of patient stay was 14 days. • 73.3 percent of HealthSouth Henderson patients were able to go home at discharge. • It holds disease-specific care certification from The Joint Commission for its stroke rehabilitation program.

“Our staff works hard to achieve great results, and I applaud them for their unwavering commitment to quality patient care,” said Sam Billig, chief executive officer of HealthSouth Henderson. “Patients have a choice and we welcome them to explore the specialized, state-of-the-art rehabilitation services that our hospital has to offer.” The data used for this report was based on 12 months of 2015 data, drawn from both Medicare and non-Medicare patients. The results were weighted and combined into a single composite score, and each hospital was assigned a percentile rank from zero to 100 relative to the 782 qualifying subscribers in the UDSMR® database. About UDSMR® About UDSMR®: Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR®) is a division of UB Foundation Activities Inc., a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Founded in 1987, UDSMR® administers the world’s largest medical rehabilitation database, and its instruments provide the field with a common language and measurement tools for outcomes and functional assessment. CMS has adopted UDSMR®’s FIM™ instrument as the basis for the IRF PPS, and UDSMR® provides exclusive training and support to the agency. HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Henderson HealthSouth Henderson is a 90-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital that offers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services. Serving patients throughout southern Nevada and Arizona, the hospital is located at 10301 Jeffreys Street in Henderson and on the Web at www.hendersonrehabhospital.com. About HealthSouth

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HealthSouth is one of the nation’s largest providers of post-acute healthcare services, offering both facility-based and home-based post-acute services in 34 states and Puerto Rico through its network of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, home health agencies, and hospice agencies. HealthSouth can be found on the web at www.healthsouth.com.

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