Bloomberg: American Healthcare REIT Gearing Up for IPO, Targeting $700 Million

American Healthcare REIT is gearing up for its initial public offering (IPO) and is aiming to raise $700 million, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The REIT’s primary operating partner is Louisville, Kentucky-based Trilogy Health Services, which is one of the nation’s largest senior living and skilled nursing providers. “Trilogy constitutes more than a third of American Healthcare REIT’s […]

Nursing Home Dementia Care Not Necessarily Elevated by Just Boosting Staff 

by Zahida Siddiqi Increasing nursing home staffing alone will not necessarily improve care quality for nursing home residents who have dementia. This is the finding of a recently published study in the journal, Health Services Research, which combines the efforts of experts at UC-Irvine, UCLA, and the University of Chicago. Researchers recommend looking beyond just […]

Angst and Opportunity: Nursing Home Upheaval Raises Stakes for Medicaid-Based Assisted Living

This content is available through your SHN+ membership Upheaval in the nursing home sector is increasing the need for Medicaid-based assisted living. This was one of the key takeaways from my meetings last week at the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) annual conference in Denver. Given that AHCA is the largest […]

What Integra Blowback Means for Welltower’s Senior Living Strategy, the SNF Investment Landscape

Welltower (NYSE: WELL) is taking heat. At issue is the deal to transition 147 skilled nursing facilities from a JV with ProMedica into a newly formed JV with Integra Health. The controversy has implications for Welltower’s senior living strategy and the future of skilled nursing investment generally. Last week, Hindenburg Research released a lengthy report […]

How Hospital System Woes, Strategic Shifts are Reshaping Senior Living

Hospital systems across the United States are pursuing strategy shifts that are starting to reshape senior living market dynamics and suggest new operating models. Health system ProMedica shed nearly all of its skilled nursing facilities while holding onto its private-pay memory care portfolio, in a recently announced deal involving Welltower (NYSE: WELL).  And about two […]

ProMedica Portfolio Skews To Memory Care As Welltower, Integra Health JV Takes 147 SNFs

ProMedica’s senior care portfolio is being pared down substantially. The Toledo, Ohio-based organization will continue to operate 58 Arden Courts memory care communities that are in a joint venture with Welltower (NYSE: WELL), but is shedding nearly 150 skilled nursing assets. More specifically, Welltower is selling and transitioning 147 skilled nursing facilities currently operated by […]

Rebalancing Portfolios, Reinventing Operations: The Springs Living, HDG Adapt for the Future

Brenda Connelly and Erin Shvetzoff Hennessey have dedicated nearly their whole lives to senior living and care, and they both believe the sector has reached an inflection point. “We’re just entering a reinvention stage,” Connelly told Senior Housing News at the recent National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) conference in Washington, D.C. […]

How a Skilled Nursing Shakeup is Creating Opportunities for Senior Living Providers

The skilled nursing sector is undergoing a shakeup, and senior living providers should be prepared to seize opportunities amid the fallout. Nursing homes are embattled on every front. The federal government is pushing for sweeping reforms that include steeper financial penalties and staffing minimums — even as providers are facing severe worker shortages. And skilled […]