Silverado kicked off August with a party. The occasion was the grand opening of Silverado’s latest memory care community, in the northern Milwaukee suburb of Glendale. But, viewed in a certain light, the event could be seen as more significant: the start of a new chapter for the 23-year-old company. At the beginning of July, […]
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After a few brutal years for standalone memory care, supply pressures are easing and occupancy is ticking up. But a rebound will be gradual, as hard-hit companies in the space try to reset, and owners and operators glean lessons from this recent period of distress. Construction of freestanding memory care communities peaked in the fourth […]
Irvine, California-based memory care provider Silverado has reached an agreement to sell almost the entirety of its home care business, Silverado At Home. The transaction will be effective on or about July 8, according to a statement Silverado shared Friday with Senior Housing News. San Francisco-based Home Care Assistance (HCA) is acquiring the business. HCA […]
Real estate investment trust Welltower (NYSE: WELL) has tapped Frontier Management to take over operations of 20 memory care properties currently operated by Silverado. The transition will take place over the next few weeks, and Frontier’s signage should be on the buildings by June 30, according to an internal Silverado memorandum obtained by Senior Housing […]
Silverado CFO Christian Sweetser has a passion for data. And in building the company’s financial planning and analytics department, he’s focused on getting other people throughout the organization excited about the numbers, to drive the company’s mission and bottom line. “You have to make it real for people and connect it to what they do […]
Recently announced Medicare Advantage policy changes could open up new opportunities for senior living providers, further accelerating the transformation of the industry’s dominant private-pay revenue model. “Senior living providers are crazy if they don’t start thinking about housing/health care integrated products,” Anne Tumlinson, founder and CEO of Anne Tumlinson Innovations, told Senior Housing News, in […]
The National Assisted Living Quality framework released last month by health care real estate investment trust Welltower (NYSE: WELL) and Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) has the potential to establish a uniform set of best practices in assisted living and memory care communities across the country, and not just Welltower-owned properties. If that does indeed come […]
Silverado hosted a belated opening celebration for its new hospice in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Illinois on Wednesday, Oct. 10. The facility quietly opened in February. Silverado also opened a hospice serving the Dallas/Ft. Worth area in Addison, Texas last month. The total number of hospices under the Silverado umbrella is now at […]
In an example of the growing role of Medicare Advantage (MA) in senior living, Silverado is collaborating with insurer CareMore Health. The effort started at Silverado’s Sierra Vista Memory Care community near Los Angeles and has begun expanding to other communities in the last few months. Silverado’s relationship with CareMore is “very much at the […]
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 […]