Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated that the bankruptcy involved Pacifica’s entire senior living portfolio. That is incorrect. The platform that declared bankruptcy operates about two-dozen communities and represents a subset of Pacifica Companies’ total senior living operations. Pacifica Senior Living is a management platform under Pacifica Companies, which has not filed for Ch. 7 bankruptcy. This story has been updated for accuracy. Senior Housing News regrets the error.

A management platform under Pacifica Companies has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

The management platform, doing business as Pacifica Senior Living LLC, has total liabilities of between $10 million and $50 million, between one and 49 creditors, and total assets of $50,000 or less, according to a March 24 filing in California Southern Bankruptcy Court. 

At the time of the bankruptcy filing, the management platform had operated “approximately 20-25 communities” in the state of California, a representative for the company told Senior Housing News. The majority of Pacifica’s senior living portfolio is managed by separate management entities and third-party management companies.

In 2024, Pacifica Companies ranked was listed by senior housing trade association Argentum as the country’s 12th largest senior living operator. A total number of communities is not listed by Pacifica online, but the company is estimated to have between 80 to 100 communities, according to past promotional sales and marketing material published online.

The operator ranked as the 10th largest assisted living provider with over 5,255 units and 10th largest memory care operator with 2,776 units by last year’s rankings.

Chapter 7 bankruptcy code differs from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in that companies must cease operations after declaring it.

The Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing follows a string of legal issues involving Pacifica in recent years, ranging from cases alleging wrongful death to labor law infringements.

Stemming from a lawsuit filed in 2020, Pacifica agreed to pay $140,000 in a settlement to the National Fair Housing Alliance following a complaint alleging the Pacifica Rosemont community denied admission to deaf or hard-of-hearing older adults and did not provide necessary services including American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters, court records show.

In 2022, according to court records, Pacifica Senior Living Management LLC and Pacifica Bakersfield were ordered to pay $23 million in damages after a jury found the community was guilty in the wrongful death of a resident.

In a prepared health care impact statement drafted for the California Attorney General’s Office in 2022, it was found that Pacifica’s rate of number of citations per number of beds in residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFSs) was 3.9-times higher than the average facility with similar capacity in California.

In 2024, court records indicate Pacifica was ordered to pay a photographer $6.3 million in statutory damages for unauthorized use of 42 copyrighted images on the company’s website.

Also in 2024, Pacifica was ordered to pay $2.5 million related to the wrongful death of a resident at its Pacifica Bakersfield community.