Non-Profit Senior Living CFOs Worried About Skilled Nursing

Skilled nursing woes rank high on non-profit senior living executives’ list of worries for the coming year. The Chicago-based specialty investment bank Ziegler asked 160 chief financial officers — along with other financial professionals — in the non-profit senior living space to find out what’s keeping them up at night. After the usual suspects of […]

Partial Win for REITs, Non-Profit Operators in Final GOP Tax Plan

Congressional Republicans on Wednesday passed their long-planned tax reform package, and while President Trump has classified the deal as a Christmas gift to American taxpayers, the effects for skilled nursing operators and investors remains less than clear-cut. For instance, non-profit developers of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) received mixed holiday blessings: The compromise tax bill saving […]

Post-Acute Crunch at Non-Profit CCRCs Predicted for 2018

Post-acute concerns could be a thorn in the side of non-profit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) operators next year. Citing industry-wide declines in census, admissions, and revenues amid changing payment models, Fitch Ratings, Inc. identified skilled rehabilitation care as a main concern for non-profit CCRCs in an otherwise sunny report about the state of the industry issued […]

Major CCRC Finance Provider Mobilizes Against Tax Bill Threat

Industry groups and senior housing financing players are hoping a last-minute advocacy push can convince Congress to save a key funding mechanism for non-profit operators — but there are few guarantees as the Republican-backed tax bill goes to reconciliation. The House version of the GOP’s sweeping rewrite of the U.S. tax code includes the elimination […]

Why One Senior Living Company Sees Skilled Nursing Potential

Amid the nagging uncertainty in the skilled nursing marketplace, some senior housing operators have moved away from SNFs entirely. Others, meanwhile, have said that if they could go back in time, they might reconsider their SNF strategy within continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs).  But one provider believes the future of CCRCs includes SNFs as a […]

Must-Reads: Fortis in Receivership, SNFs’ Cloudy CCRC Future

Each week, we round up the most-read stories on Skilled Nursing News in one place — perfect for catching up on the top headlines you may have missed amid the health care reform collapse and other news out of Washington. Fortis Management Group, an operator of 60 skilled nursing facilities in the Midwest and Pacific […]