The coming year will be “a bit of a slog” for skilled nursing, but operating and financial headwinds should ease over the course of 2023. That’s the viewpoint of Rick Matros, CEO of Sabra Health Care REIT (Nasdaq: SBRA), which owns 270 skilled nursing and transitional care properties, along with senior living, behavioral health and […]
Covenant Care
Economic conditions such as tight debt markets have slowed the portfolio restructuring efforts that CareTrust REIT (NYSE: CTRE) embarked on earlier this year. However, company leadership see the scales tipping in favor of acquisitions. Currently, acquisition pricing remains tricky, as sellers are still trying to achieve “peak pricing,” CareTrust Chief Investment Officer Mark Lamb said […]
Covenant Care has tapped Nathan Ure as its next CEO. He joined the Covenant Care team in June after spending nearly eight years in executive leadership roles at Sun Mar Healthcare. Other career achievements include founding Cambridge Healthcare and being an early equity partner at the Ensign Group, according to a LinkedIn post announcing the appointment. […]
CareTrust REIT (Nasdaq: CTRE) acquired the Buena Vista Care Center, a 150-bed skilled nursing facility in Santa Barbara, Calif., for about $15.9 million, including transaction costs, the real estate investment trust announced March 9. The facility will continue to be operated by Covenant Care under a long-term lease assumed by the San Clemente, Calif.-based CareTrust […]
The early returns for the new Medicare payment model for nursing homes have been broadly positive, with multiple experts and operators pegging the revenue gains at a healthy but modest 5% to 6%. But the actual gains may be higher than those numbers betray, and several experts predict some kind of eventual adjustment from the […]
As the post-acute and long-term health care industry struggles through shortened lengths of stay and compressed reimbursements, an oasis has lingered just beyond the horizon: the so-called silver tsunami. If operators can wait out the current downturn, the thinking goes, the glut of baby boomers turning 80 and older over the coming years will be […]
CareTrust REIT (Nasdaq: CTRE) turned in solid earnings results for the fourth quarter of 2018, with a sizable pipeline of skilled nursing assets coming in 2019. The real estate investment trust’s quarterly revenue of $40.4 million beat analyst estimates by about $270,000, and represented an increase of around 10% from the previous year. Still, chief […]
CareTrust REIT (Nasdaq: CTRE) this week announced the $49.3 million acquisition of four skilled nursing facilities in California operated by Covenant Care, Inc. The 503-bed portfolio comes to the San Clemente, Calif.-based real estate investment trust (REIT) through a sale-leaseback arrangement, with initial annual cash lease payments of $4 million and a 15-year term. The […]