Company: EHC
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000785161-25-000013
Chunk: 54

Company: Encompass Health Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 54
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. For additional information regarding our business, refer to Item 1, Business, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 (the “2024 Form 10-K”).

#### 2024 Business Highlights and Recent Track Record
Our clinicians have consistently provided high quality, compassionate care to patients in need of our services. The dedication of our team members allowed us to make significant operational and strategic progress and to generate strong financial results in 2024:

| Operational Achievements |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| ü                        |     | Our overall patient discharges and “same store” discharges increased by 8.3% and 5.6%, respectively.                                                                                                                            |
| ü                        |     | Net operating revenues increased 11.9% over 2023.                                                                                                                                                                               |
| ü                        |     | Our hospital teams delivered high-quality outcomes in a cost-effective manner.                                                                                                                                                  |
| ü                        |     | We entered new markets and enhanced our geographic coverage in existing markets in 2024 by adding six new hospitals (280 beds). We also expanded existing hospitals by 147 beds (inclusive of a new 40-bed satellite hospital). |

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| Quality of Care and Outcomes for Our Patients |     |                                                                                                                                  |
| ü                                             |     | We continued to outperform industry averages in the inpatient rehabilitation quality of care measures of discharge to community. |
| ü                                             |     | 144 of our hospitals hold one or more Joint Commission specialty accreditations in rehabilitation.                               |
| ü                                             |     | We reduced overall nurse and first-year RN turnover by 270 and 127 basis points, respectively.                                   |
| ü                                             |     | We continued roll out of in-house hemodialysis capabilities (109 hospitals at year-end).                                         |

#### Operating Performance and Executive Compensation
We utilize performance objectives in our compensation plans which we believe will, over time, lead to enhanced stockholder value. Over the past several years, we established a track record of delivering strong results from operations, and we are proud of our strong 2024 operational and financial performance, broad-based volume growth, and significant advancement of our strategic positioning.

Healthcare is a highly regulated industry. Successful healthcare providers are those able to adapt to changes in the regulatory and operating environments, build strategic relationships across the healthcare continuum, and consistently provide high-quality, cost-effective care. We believe we have the necessary capabilities—change agility, strategic relationships,