CareTrust REIT Inc

Our executive compensation program is designed to achieve the following objectives:

•Attract, motivate and retain quality executive officers to ensure the success and growth of the Company;

•Align executive compensation with the Company’s corporate strategies, business objectives, corporate responsibility initiatives and the creation of long-term value for our stockholders;

•Connect short- and long-term incentive awards to performance metrics that we believe drive the performance of our Common Stock over the long-term;

•Utilize various performance metrics to minimize the potential for risk associated with over-weighting any particular performance metric; and

•Link our named executive officers’ interests with our stockholders’ interests by tying executive compensation to our performance and increases in long-term stockholder value.