EXHIBIT 99.2
 
                         NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY
                                 FOR TENDER OF
                   8 5/8% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2007
                                       OF
                                  VENCOR, INC.
 
This Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, or one substantially equivalent to this
form, must be used to accept the Exchange Offer (as defined below) if (i)
certificates for the Company's (as defined below) 8 5/8% Senior Subordinated
Notes due 2007 (the "Old Notes") are not immediately available, (ii) Old Notes,
the Letter of Transmittal and all other required documents cannot be delivered
to First Chicago Trust Company of New York (the "Exchange Agent") on or prior
to the Expiration Date (as defined in the Prospectus referred to below) or
(iii) the procedures for delivery by book-entry transfer cannot be completed on
a timely basis. This Notice of Guaranteed Delivery may be delivered by hand,
overnight courier or mail, or transmitted by facsimile transmission, to the
Exchange Agent. See "The Exchange Offer--Procedures for Tendering Old Notes" in
the Prospectus.
 
                 THE EXCHANGE AGENT FOR THE EXCHANGE OFFER IS:
                    FIRST CHICAGO TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
 
         By Mail:                  By Hand:          By Overnight Delivery or
   Tenders & Exchanges    Attn: Tenders & Exchanges           Hand:
      P.O. Box 2569        c/o The Depository Trust    Tenders & Exchanges
      Suite 4660-VI                Company          14 Wall Street, 8th Floor
 Jersey City, New Jersey   55 Water Street, DTC TAD       Suite 4680-VI
        07303-2569        Vietnam Veterans Memorial  New York, New York 10054
                                    Plaza
                           New York, New York 10041
 
           To Confirm by Telephone or for Information: (201) 222-4707
 
                    Facsimile Transmissions: (201) 222-4720
                                               or
                                           (201) 222-
                                           4721
 
 
DELIVERY OF THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY TO AN ADDRESS OTHER THAN AS SET
FORTH ABOVE OR TRANSMISSION OF THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY VIA FACSIMILE
TO A NUMBER OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH ABOVE WILL NOT CONSTITUTE A VALID DELIVERY.
 
THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY IS NOT TO BE USED TO GUARANTEE SIGNATURES.
IF A SIGNATURE ON A LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL IS REQUIRED TO BE GUARANTEED BY AN
"ELIGIBLE INSTITUTION" UNDER THE INSTRUCTIONS THERETO, SUCH SIGNATURE GUARANTEE
MUST APPEAR IN THE APPLICABLE SPACE PROVIDED IN THE SIGNATURE BOX ON THE LETTER
OF TRANSMITTAL.
 
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                                   GUARANTEE
                    (NOT TO BE USED FOR SIGNATURE GUARANTEE)
 
The undersigned, a firm or other entity identified in Rule 17Ad-15 under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as an "eligible guarantor
institution," including (as such terms are defined therein): (i) a bank; (ii) a
broker, dealer, municipal securities broker, municipal securities dealer,
government securities broker, government securities dealer; (iii) a credited
union; (iv) a national securities exchange, registered securities association
or clearing agency; or (v) a savings association that is a participant in a
Securities Transfer Association recognized program (each of the foregoing being
referred to as an "Eligible Institution"), hereby guarantees to deliver to the
Exchange Agent, at one of its addresses set forth above, either the Old Notes
tendered hereby in proper form for transfer, or confirmation of the book-entry
transfer of such Old Notes to the Exchange Agent's account at The Depository
Trust Company ("DTC"), pursuant to the procedures for book-entry transfer set
forth in the Prospectus, in either case together with one or more properly
completed and duly executed Letter(s) of Transmittal and any other required
documents within five business days after the date of execution of this Notice
of Guaranteed Delivery.
 
The undersigned acknowledges that it must deliver the Letter(s) of Transmittal
and the Old Notes tendered hereby to the Exchange Agent within the time period
set forth above and that failure to do so could result in a financial loss to
the undersigned.
 
Name of Firm: ______________________
 
                                        ____________________________________
Address: ___________________________    (Authorized Signature)
 
                                        Title: _____________________________
 
____________________________________
(Zip Code)                              Name: ______________________________
 
                                        (Please type or print)
 
Area Code and Telephone Number: ____
                                        Date: ______________________________
 
NOTE: DO NOT SEND OLD NOTES WITH THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY. ACTUAL
SURRENDER OF OLD NOTES MUST BE MADE PURSUANT TO, AND BE ACCOMPANIED BY, A
PROPERLY COMPLETED AND DULY EXECUTED LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL AND ANY OTHER
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS.
 
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