Monday Jump-Start: Welltower’s Lawsuit, Amazon Echo ‘Silver’

Happy Monday! Here’s last week’s most-read news: HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) hired Scott Brinker as its new chief investment officer, and Welltower (NYSE: HCN) responded to the appointment with a lawsuit. Not-for-profit post-acute providers in Illinois have a plan to go up against Symphony Post Acute Care Network—and other for-profits— and win. Tana Gall, CEO […]

Nonprofits Devise Plan to Take On Symphony Post-Acute Network

The words “Symphony Post Acute Network” can send shivers down the spines of many not-for-profit post-acute providers, and for good reason. The Chicago-based, for-profit post-acute care operator poses fierce competition for several not-for-profits in the Chicagoland area, where it operates most of its 28 buildings—including some newer properties that are state-of-the art. Now, however, not-for-profit […]

In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (7/17/14)

Construction: Planned Presbyterian Senior Living Awarded Funds to Build Penn. Senior Apartments Presbyterian Senior Living (PSL) this week announced it has been notified that the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) has awarded funding to them to build a 50-unit apartment building for low- to moderate-income people age 62 and older. Construction on the Westminster Place […]