Occupancy rates at many skilled nursing facilities are improving. The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care (NIC) reported that occupancy at SNFs in its NIC Map Data Service report was 71.2% in February 2021, up from 70.7% in January. The report drew from 29 contributors representing a total of 1,454 properties in January […]
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Persistent skilled nursing headwinds played a role in the decision for Five Star Senior Living (Nasdaq: FVE) to close and repurpose all the health care units in its continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). “Over the past several years, we have strategically reduced our exposure to skilled nursing, a line of business that has been subject […]
Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) was able to collect “virtually all” of its contractual rent for the first quarter, CEO Taylor Pickett said on the real estate investment trust’s first-quarter earnings call. However, he added that without more government aid, many long-term care operators are likely to feel the effects of the costs stemming from […]
Greystone provided a $17.18 million loan insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to refinance the 103-unit skilled nursing facility Sapphire Estates Rehab Centre in Tucson, Ariz. The HUD-insured Section 223(a)(7) financing carries a new 40-year term with a low fixed interest rate, and was originated by Greystone managing director Eric Rosenstock […]
Formation Capital has a new CEO and is embarking on an investment strategy focused on creating new models of senior living and services. Atlanta-based Formation has been a prolific investor in the senior housing and care sector since its founding in 1999. As of last year, when long-time CEO Brian Beckwith departed, the firm was […]
With vaccines administered to seniors at high rates, LTC Properties, Inc. (NYSE: LTC) is optimistic that new residents will be coming back to skilled nursing facilities and senior living properties — and though it’s not clear how quickly census will recover, CEO and chairman Wendy Simpson is encouraged by the “anecdotal evidence” from the real […]
Skilled nursing giant The Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG) continues to be immune from COVID-era pressures, posting another quarter of record earnings and plotting out post-pandemic growth — with an eye toward taking a page from its spinoff of its non-SNF business lines. The San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based Ensign has engaged with advisors to potentially capitalize […]
Citing research showing lapses in staffing and care quality, a think tank on Friday released a report calling on Congress to ban all private equity investment in nursing homes. The Roosevelt Institute specifically asked lawmakers to subject all nursing home transactions to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval in order to weed out “private equity […]
Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL) on Thursday again touted the benefits of a blockbuster move to largely end its relationship with troubled nursing home giant Genesis HealthCare, hinting at an even greater return for the real estate investment trust (REIT) than previously disclosed. Welltower CEO Shankh Mitra pointed to the $144,000-per-bed price tag on the transaction, […]
It could be the next major trend in long-term and post-acute care, with benefits for both residents and operators: downsizing bed counts to better match demand and provide higher quality care. Masonicare, a non-profit health system based in Connecticut, became the latest operator to make headlines with a plan to relinquish beds at its skilled […]
Greystone provided a $24.9 million loan insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the refinancing of the 120-bed skilled nursing facility Adira at Riverside, in Yonkers, N.Y. The financing was originated for L&A RE Acquisition, LLC, by Greystone managing director Fred Levine, with Shia Fishman of Capital Stack Advisors acting as […]
Even before the pandemic, executives at onehome saw opportunity in developing a robust rehab program that could provide a skilled nursing facility level of care at home. The Miramar, Fla.-based home health provider and convener partners primarily with managed Medicare insurers, with limited traditional fee-for-service Medicare or Medicaid business lines; instead, onehome opts for risk-sharing […]
In times past, the advice for improving census at skilled nursing facilities could generally be distilled to a data strategy. That data might range from statistics on difficult-to-place hospital patients to hard numbers around key outcomes such as readmissions to the acute setting. But always the watchword was “data,” even if it wasn’t always clear […]
Even before the pandemic, American Health Partners saw growth potential by expanding beyond a core of skilled nursing facilities. The Franklin, Tenn.-based firm operates 29 SNFs through its American Health Care arm, but it also provides a wide range of other services, from home health and hospice to psychiatric care to a nurse practitioner organization. […]
Abri Health Care, the company that emerged from the bankruptcy of skilled nursing operator Senior Care Centers, itself filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 16, according to landlord LTC Properties (NYSE: LTC) and court filings. Senior Care Centers LLC, now an Abri subsidiary, is owned 100% by Abri Health Services, LLC, which in […]
Prior to the pandemic, any discussion of investment in skilled nursing facilities usually came with a mention of the “stroke of the pen” risk — the concern that any action by the government around reimbursement could have a substantial impact on the value of properties, given that the majority of revenue in the sector comes […]
Even as the nationwide vaccine rollout eases the clinical crisis in U.S. nursing homes, operators across the senior living spectrum are reporting the highest levels of agency staffing use and overtime pay since the pandemic began — indicating that the longstanding workforce crunch in the sector only has only continued to worsen. That’s according to […]
Cambridge Realty Capital Companies provided a $12 million loan, backed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), to refiance the Alden Alma Nelson Manor skilled nursing facility in Rockford, Ill. The Chicago-based Cambridge originated the loan through HUD’s 232 program, which provides long-term financing for SNFs and other residential care facilities; the fully […]
The federal government has made it clear that it wants to adjust how nursing homes receive Medicare reimbursement due to an estimated 5% increase in fiscal 2020 — a gain that runs counter to the goal of keeping Medicare spending level from year to year. Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) determined […]
Skilled nursing facilities and other health care providers will receive 2% more in Medicare reimbursements through the end of 2021 after President Biden signed a long-awaited sequestration moratorium bill into law Wednesday. Congress in late March 2020 suspended the 2% sequestration cut as the coronavirus crisis began to gain steam, and late last year bumped […]