Health Care, Senior Housing Industry Veteran Joins Ascension Living as CEO

Ascension Living has named a seasoned health care and senior housing and care industry veteran to its top leadership role. The St. Louis-based senior living operator, which is part of non-profit Catholic health system Ascension, on Tuesday announced Christopher Caserta has taken the reins as CEO. By taking the CEO role, Caserta is assuming a […]

Welltower Ups Guidance, Reflecting Rate Growth and Occupancy Gains

Welltower (NYSE: WELL) has updated its annual guidance, a sign that the real estate investment trust has a more rosy view of the senior living industry’s recovery. In a business update issued Tuesday, Welltower reported it now expects to achieve normalized funds from operations (NFFO) in a range of $3.43 to $3.56 per diluted share […]

In the Pipeline: The Arbor Co. Expands with Luxury Project; Solera Senior Living Expands Maryland Community

In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting-edge design, excellence, and innovation in senior living. Construction: Planned The Arbor Company announces new luxury project The Arbor Company with Braemar Partners recently announced plans for a new senior living community that is […]

Transactions & Financings: SLIB Sells Recently Built Resort Town Community; Ziegler Advises Sale in Wisconsin

Sales Senior Living Investment Brokerage Facilitates Portfolio Sale in the South Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) announced it played a role in the sale of three senior living communities – two in Georgia and one in Tennessee. In all, the three communities comprise 228 of AL and memory care and were built in either 1999 […]

Artis Senior Living Completes $40 Million Equity Raise

Artis Senior Living finds itself with fuller pockets after a $40 million equity raise this week. The move comes about six weeks after CEO Josh Krull announced on LinkedIn that he would be taking the reins as the chief executive. The news of the equity raised is according to a filing with the Securities and […]

Why Kaiser Permanente’s Geisinger Acquisition Could Fuel More Innovation for Aging Care

Kaiser Permanente on Wednesday announced it is acquiring Geisinger and folding it into a new entity, Risant Health, in a deal that could have wider implications for how care is delivered in senior living communities. With the deal, the terms of which were not disclosed Wednesday, Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger will keep its name and mission […]

Senior Living Resident Rates Up 8% to 10% in 1Q23

Senior living operators across multiple care types have increased resident rates between 8% and 10% through the first quarter of this year, according to LivingPath data. The dataset from LivingPath — an online platform that provides pricing and other data for senior housing communities — shows that independent living rates grew between 8.7% and 9.1% […]

Willow Valley Has Hospitality in its ‘DNA’ as Senior Living Operator Primes for Growth

A forward-thinking life plan community in the senior living hotbed of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,is gearing up for future growth, both at its existing campus and new locations. The sweeping life plan community, Willow Valley Communities, is among the largest LPCs in the U.S., according to the 2022 LeadingAge Ziegler 200 report. All told, Willow Valley Communities […]