With senior living occupancy lower than he’s ever seen it due to Covid-19, National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) President and CEO Eric Mendelsohn has had to become a more empathetic leader — while still safeguarding NHI’s business and securing its future But Mendelsohn is feeling more optimistic than he was during the last earnings call […]
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National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) has extended additional rent deferrals to Bickford Senior Living, and executives with the real estate investment trust (REIT) are keeping their options open in terms of further tenant support given the unpredictable nature of Covid-19. “We’re unwilling — so to speak — to make long-term decisions at what we hope […]
“We won’t go back to the way we were. The new normal will not be the old normal.” These words were spoken last week by Beth Mace, chief economist at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). But, it was a sentiment that many people have been expressing over the past month, […]
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The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked what one analyst is calling a “Great Reset” — and the result has been topsy-turvy for the senior living industry. Investor sentiment may be shifting against senior housing in favor of the once-shunned skilled nursing sector. Related, the pandemic is helping some senior housing owners that have been working for […]
Publicly traded senior housing owners and operators begin reporting their Q1 2020 earnings next week, but these financial results will be essentially irrelevant due to Covid-19. Analysts, investors and senior living professionals hope that the earnings reports and comments from executive teams will provide a clearer sense of Covid-19’s effects on the industry and what […]
Senior housing-related stocks fell sharply on Thursday amid a dramatic market plunge tied to coronavirus fears. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 10% at market close, in the worst drop for the index since “Black Monday” in 1987. The Nasdaq composite was down 9.4% at the close. Several senior housing-related stocks fell even more […]
Justin Hutchens has stepped down as CEO of HC-One, the largest care home provider in the United Kingdom, and will return to the United States to take a job in health care finance and investment. The details of Hutchens’ new position will be publicly disclosed “in due course,” HC-One noted in announcing the news. Hutchens […]
Real estate investment trusts (REITs) might soon feel “buyer’s remorse” over recent decisions to bulk up their senior housing operating portfolios, according to Eric Mendelsohn, CEO of National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI). In recent years, several factors drove some REITs to go big on RIDEA. With new supply, labor and other challenges squeezing their net […]
Discovery Senior Living had a landmark year in 2019, hiring its first COO, making strides on an “experiential living” model, and striking major deals with real estate investment trusts Welltower (NYSE: WELL), HCP (NYSE: HCP) and NHI (NYSE: NHI). Memory care has been another major focus, and the Bonita Springs, Florida-based provider recently announced that […]