Welltower’s DeRosa: Health Care Real Estate is the New Retail

While remaining relatively mum on the status of his company’s major skilled nursing play, Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL) CEO Tom DeRosa this week presented a vision of the future in which health care assets replace retail as the cornerstone of real estate development. “For generations, we thought of anchors as retail — it’s retail that […]

Rumored Ascension Merger Could Fold SNFs into Largest Hospital Chain

If a rumored merger actually takes place, the nation’s largest hospital operator and the nation’s third-largest nonprofit senior care organization may become one in the same. St. Louis-based Ascension Health and Renton, Washington-based nonprofit health system Providence St. Joseph Health have been discussing the possibility of merging for months, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing […]