Activist shareholder Land & Buildings has once again blasted Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), saying in a public letter that the company is doing “the bare minimum to appease shareholders.” Land & Buildings is incensed that Brentwood, Tennessee-based Brookdale — the nation’s largest senior living provider — has not taken steps to monetize more of […]
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Private equity giant Apollo Global Management plans to invest further in senior living after acquiring a portfolio of 22 properties currently managed by Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), a person with knowledge of the deal told Senior Housing News. New York City-based Apollo is an alternative investment management firm that currently has about $247 billion […]
Leaders with Welltower (NYSE: WELL) believe the company is positioned to create and seize opportunities in the years ahead, thanks to a major new joint venture and a restructured senior housing portfolio. On Thursday, the real estate investment trust (REIT) and a nonprofit health system, ProMedica, closed on a joint venture deal valued at $4.4 […]
Dr. Atul Gawande, who put the U.S. senior housing and care system under the microscope in his bestselling book “Being Mortal,” has been named CEO of a new health care venture launched by corporate giants Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM). The appointment of 52-year-old Gawande is effective July […]
Ventas (NYSE: VTR) shares have been surging since the company announced its quarterly earnings last Friday, and its CEO Debra Cafaro received effusive praise from CNBC’s Jim Cramer during a Monday night appearance on his show Mad Money. “This was the quarter that we’ve all been looking for, all of the objections have been answered,” […]
Bill Sheriff, a pioneer in the senior living industry and former CEO of Brookdale Senior Living, is re-joining the Brentwood, Tennessee-based provider as a consultant. “I am pleased to again work with the talented and committed people of Brookdale – from the front-line associates to senior management – who are selflessly dedicated to enriching lives […]
Two dozen senior living communities owned by real estate investment trust (REIT) HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) are getting a new operator, transitioning from Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) to Atria Senior Living. Brentwood, Tennessee-based Brookdale is the largest senior living provider in the nation, and has been facing financial and operational challenges since its 2014 […]
Cindy Baier knows that she has her work cut out for her as the new CEO of Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), and she is frank that success will only come after she makes some hard decisions. Not only has Brookdale—the nation’s largest senior living provider— been underperforming, the industry as a whole is facing […]
Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) will soon have a new CEO. The nation’s largest senior living provider on Thursday announced changes to its executive and board leadership and the conclusion of a strategic review process that has been ongoing for about a year. Lucinda Baier, currently CFO of Brentwood, Tennessee-based Brookdale, will assume the CEO […]
Senior housing owners and operators saw their share prices slide on Monday as the markets plunged, with the Dow Jones industrial index posting its largest-ever intraday decline of nearly 1,600 points. Toldeo, Ohio-based Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN) finished the regular trading day down 3.28%, Chicago-based Ventas Inc. (NYSE: VTR) posted a decline of 2.67%, and […]
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