EXHIBIT 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all by these present, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Deborah M. Rasin, Ari D.
Mintzer, and Lori Cobb, or any of their written designees among employees of Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. and its
subsidiaries (the “Company”), signing singly, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
(1) prepare, execute in the undersigned’s name and on the undersigned’s behalf, and submit to the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and
any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to
make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;
(2) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer and/or director of
the Company, Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
and the rules thereunder, and any other forms or reports the undersigned may be required to file in
connection with the undersigned’s ownership, acquisition, or disposition of securities of the Company;
(3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable
to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5, or other form or report; complete and execute any
amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the SEC and any stock exchange or
similar authority; and
(4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of
such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it
being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned
pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as
such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and
every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full
power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-
fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and
powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at
the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities
to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file
Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 13th day
of March, 2017.
Name: William G. Dempsey
Signature: /s/ William G. Dempsey