Senior Housing Properties Trust to Present at Merrill Lynch Health Services Conference

Business Wire, Nov 21, 2006

NEWTON, Mass. -- Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) today announced that David Hegarty, president and chief operating officer, will be presenting at the Merrill Lynch Health Services Conference in New York City on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. The presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet.

To access the live webcast of the SNH presentation, participants should visit the SNH web site at www.snhreit.com at least 15 minutes prior to the broadcast to ensure that all the necessary applications are downloaded and installed.

For those unable to participate live, SNH's presentation will be archived on the company's web site immediately following the presentation. The archived webcast will be available for replay on the SNH web site for about one week after the presentation.

Senior Housing Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, that owns 196 senior living properties located in 32 states. SNH is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

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