The Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG) acquired the real estate and operations of the 130-bed Phoenix Mountain Post Acute skilled nursing facility, effective April 1. The community had an average occupancy rate of about 80% at the time of the acquisition, according to Jim Guschl, president of Bandera Healthcare, Inc., Ensign’s Arizona-based subsidiary. “We have admired […]
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The Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG) acquired the operations of the 99-bed Downey Care Center, a skilled nursing facility in Downey, Calif. The acquisition was effective March 1. “It’s been many years since we have found the right opportunity to grow in Southern California,” Ensign President and CEO Christopher Christensen said in a statement announcing the […]
The Champaign County Board approved roughly $6 million in nursing home expenses for the Champaign County Nursing Home in Urbana, Ill., The News-Gazette reported. The board on January 15 voted to appropriate $1.98 million to pay off bills to nursing home vendors that dated as far back as fiscal 2015; it also voted to write […]
SentosaCare Takes Over Virginia Nursing Home The former Avante Nursing Home in Waynesboro, Va., is now owned by Webster, N.Y.-based SentosaCare, as of June 1, The News Virginian reported on August 18. The change in ownership came as part of a 10-facility Avante sale announced earlier this year, John Harnack, vice president of human resources for The Avante […]
Non-Profit Sells Queens Nursing Home to For-Profit for $41M CenterLight Health System, a non-profit based in the Bronx, N.Y., will sell its Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Queens to a group of limited liability companies for $41 million. The owners of those companies include Cassena Care principals Pasquale DeBenedictis and Alex Solovey and Workmen’s […]