Health care real estate investment trusts (REITs) underwent major refocusing last year, creating skilled nursing cast-offs, spinoffs and pure plays. Now, skilled nursing has slipped away from senior housing-focused REITs and is up for another year of challenges. While the rest of the health care system inches toward integration amid the ongoing shift toward value-based care, […]
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Senior living providers have been slow to partner with health systems and payers, but Capital Senior Living (NYSE: CSU) hopes to play a “leading role” in this going forward, according to CEO Larry Cohen. “It’s the Holy Grail,” Cohen said these types of partnerships. His comments came Tuesday on a fourth-quarter 2016 earnings call. The […]
Census and labor pressures continued to hit the skilled nursing and post-acute sector hard at the end of 2016, prompting industry giant Genesis HealthCare (NYSE: GEN) to take major cost reduction initiatives, including laying off corporate and regional staff. The cost-cutting measures largely have been completed at this point and are expected to reduce the Kennett […]
Check out what you missed in senior housing news last week. From a collaboration between two big players in the industry to an optimistic outlook on financing this year, last week was packed with updates. Here in the newsroom, we had our faith in humanity restored when a 93 year-old woman was surprised on her birthday, […]
Senior Housing News will be observing the Thanksgiving holiday Thursday, Nov. 24 and Friday, Nov. 25. We will return to our normal posting schedule Monday, Nov. 28. Genesis Healthcare Reveals Executive Departures, Appointments Genesis Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: GEN) revealed the retirement of Robert A. “Mike” Reitz from his position of executive vice president and COO […]
Ventas Completes Acquisition of $1.5 Billion Life Sciences Portfolio Health care real estate investment trust (REIT) Ventas Inc. (NYSE: VTR) completed its previously announced acquisition of a $1.5 billion portfolio of Wexford Science & Technology, LLC life sciences buildings. Ventas acquired the properties from affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII L.P., completed Sept. 1. […]
Payment reforms have made their sting across the health care industry, with the skilled nursing market taking a hit. And some of the senior housing industry’s biggest real estate owners of skilled nursing properties have started reducing their portfolio exposure in the asset class as a result. Despite the shift in the attractiveness of skilled […]
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It’s earnings season, and the message is clear—acquisitions and dispositions are back in a big way. This week, we clued our readers into Welltower’s massive new senior housing portfolio acquisition on the West Coast and Sabra’s plans to offload a serious chunk of skilled nursing change. Here in the newsroom, we were keeping up with […]
Sabra Health Care REIT (Nasdaq: SBRA) is joining the ranks of real estate investment trusts that are taking significant steps to limit their exposure to skilled nursing. Sabra and its major skilled nursing tenant, Genesis HealthCare Inc. (NYSE: GEN), have reached an agreement to market up to 29 leased buildings for sale, the REIT announced […]
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