| 2.28 | “Performance Criteria” means the criteria that the Committee selects for purposes of establishing the Performance Goal or Performance Goals for a Participant for a Performance Period. The Performance Criteria that will be used to establish Performance Goals include: (a) earnings, including one or more of operating income, earnings before or after taxes, earnings before or after interest, depreciation, amortization, rent (or restructuring) costs, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDAR, economic earnings, or extraordinary or special items or book value per share (which may exclude nonrecurring items); (b)pre-tax income,after-tax income or adjusted net income; (c) earnings per share (basic or diluted); (d) operating profit; (e) revenue, revenue growth or rate of revenue growth; (f) return on assets (gross or net), return on investment, return on capital, or return on equity; (g) returns on sales or revenues; (h) operating expenses; (i) stock price appreciation; (j) cash flow, free cash flow, cash flow return on investment (discounted or otherwise), net cash provided by operations, or cash flow in excess of cost of capital; (k) cash flow from facility operations (CFFO); (l) facility net operating income (NOI); (m) implementation or completion of critical projects or processes; (n) acquisition financing; (o) cumulative earnings per share growth; (p) operating margin or profit margin; (q) containment of Company expenses, (r) expense targets, reductions and savings, productivity and efficiencies; (s) strategic business criteria, consisting of one or more objectives based on meeting specified market penetration, geographic business expansion, employee satisfaction, resident satisfaction, human resources management, supervision of litigation and/or information technology goals, goals relating to acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and/or similar transactions and/or goals relating to budget comparisons; (t) personal professional objectives, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing performance goals, the implementation of policies and plans, the negotiation of transactions, the development of long term business goals, formation of joint ventures, research or development collaborations, and the completion of other corporate transactions; (u) any combination of, or a specified increase or decrease in, any of the foregoing; and (v) any other criteria as determined by the Committee in its sole discretion, any of which may be measured either in absolute terms or as compared to any incremental increase or as compared to results of a peer group or securities or stock market index. |