Company: EHC
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000785161-25-000013
Chunk: 43

Company: Encompass Health Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 43
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 board responsibilities.

• Financial Literacy : Candidates should be able to read and understand fundamental financial statements and understand the use of financial ratios and information in evaluating financial performance.

• Courage : Candidates should possess the courage to express views openly, even in the face of opposition.

The Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee and our board of directors also consider whether each candidate is able to dedicate sufficient time, energy and attention to ensure the diligent performance of his or her duties. The Corporate Governance Guidelines set out the standards, including a policy on over-boarding, for assessing the ability of each candidate to fulfill his or her duties and responsibilities to the Company. Those standards include specific limitations that (i) directors should not hold more than four outside directorships with publicly-traded companies, provided, if he or she is employed on a full-time basis, then he or she should hold no more than two outside directorships with publicly traded companies; and (ii) members of the Audit Committee should serve on the audit committee of no more than three publicly-traded companies.

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#### Process for Identifying and Evaluating Candidates
The Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee has two primary methods for identifying director nominees. First, on a periodic basis, the committee solicits ideas for possible candidates from members of the board of directors, senior level executives, and individuals personally known to the members of the board of directors. Second, the committee from time to time uses its authority under its charter to retain, at the Company’s expense, one or more search firms to identify candidates.

The Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee will consider all candidates duly identified and will evaluate each of them based on the same criteria. The process that will be followed by the committee will include meetings from time to time to evaluate biographical information and background material relating to potential candidates and interviews of selected candidates by members of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee, other members of the board and senior management. The committee emphasizes creating a diverse pool of candidates. The candidates recommended for the board’s consideration will be those individuals from that pool who the committee believes will create a board of directors that is, as a whole, strong in its collective knowledge of, and diverse in skills, perspectives, and experience with respect to, accounting and finance, management and leadership, vision and strategy, business operations, business judgment, crisis management, risk assessment, information technology and cybersecurity, industry knowledge, governmental relations for a heavily regulated industry, and corporate governance.

#### Board Succession Planning
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