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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Friday, 16 January 2009 - Southern Cross Healthcare Group PLC (LSE: SCHE) ('Southern Cross' or the 'Company'), the UK's largest care home operator, announces that it has today posted to shareholders the notice of the Annual General Meeting, to be held at 11am on 16 February 2009 at the offices of UBS, 1 Finsbury Avenue, London EC2M 2PP.
Copies of the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 28 September 2008 and Notice of the Annual General Meeting have been posted to those shareholders who have requested hard copies and will also be available to view on the Company's website; http://investors.schealthcare.co.uk/ from tomorrow. Separate notification has been sent to those who have consented, or been deemed to consent, to receiving shareholder documentation by means of a website.
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About Southern Cross
Southern Cross is, in terms of number of beds, the largest UK provider of care home services for the elderly and a major provider of specialist services for people with physical and/or learning disabilities. The Company's care homes for the elderly operate under two distinct brands: Southern Cross Healthcare and Ashbourne Senior Living. Both brands provide a range of social and personal care services and nursing care services for elderly people with physical frailties and differing forms of dementia. The Company's specialist services operate under the Active Care Partnerships brand and provide long-term care services for people with physical and/or learning disabilities and for younger people with complex forms of challenging behaviour.
Southern Cross is focused on providing high quality care in well invested facilities, seeking to be the home of choice in each local community in which it operates. The Company provides care services for most of the local authorities in the UK which, together with the NHS, represent circa 70% of the Company's revenues. Its care home portfolio is largely purpose-built with a high percentage of single occupancy rooms and rooms with ensuite bathrooms.
This announcement includes statements that are, or may deemed to be, "forward looking statements". These forward looking statements can be identified by the use of forward looking terminology, including the terms "believes", "estimates", "plans", "projects", "anticipates", "expects", "intends", "may", "will", or " should" or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology. These forward looking statements include matters that are not historical facts and include statements regarding the Company's intentions, beliefs or current expectations concerning, among other things, the Company's results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, prospects, growth, strategies and the outlook on the care home industry. By their nature, forward looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to future events and circumstances.