CCRCs Lead Senior Living For Wellness Approach, Execution

Health care providers, including dozens of senior living communities and CCRCs, largely give their employees low marks when it comes to their own health care. As a result, many are starting to implement in-house initiatives to improve their outcomes, with CCRCs largely leading that charge. Among senior living providers, CCRCs are more likely to have […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Beech Street, Cambridge, Red Capital

Beech Street Refinances Illinois Supportive Living Facility for $20.7 Million  Beech Street Capital, a Capital One company, has provided a $20.7 million HUD loan to refinance a supportive living facility in Illinois. Under a federal waiver, supportive living facilities in Illinois can receive Medicaid support for low-income residents that need assistance with activities of daily living, […]

Bloomberg: Developers Creating Senior Housing Surplus

While real estate developers are working fast to meet the housing needs of a rapidly growing U.S. senior citizen population – which is projected to almost double in the next 35 years – some analysts are warning that developers may be moving too fast, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. A jump in supply is forecast to cut […]

Ensign to Complete Spinoff of New Healthcare REIT

The Ensign Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSG) has announced it is moving forward in the upcoming completion of its healthcare and real estate business split into two separate and independent, publicly-traded companies: The Ensign Group, Inc. and CareTrust REIT, Inc. The company announced the REIT spinoff earlier this year and said this week it is nearing […]

USA Today: Baby Boomers Not Alone in Retirement Crisis

Retirement planning spans three generations of Americans, writes USA Today in a recent article, which examines the specific retirement issues those of the Baby Boomer, Generation X and Millennial generation face. Baby Boomers have expressed the most concern, while the Millennial generation appears the most confident about retirement. The article notes a recent study by the […]