• Interview with Bryan Lockard of JLL Value and Risk Advisory

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with Bryan Lockard of JLL Value and Risk Advisory to discuss JLL’s 2024 Seniors Housing and Care Investor Survey and Trends, which you can download here. Read More »
  • Wow…Sonida Senior Living

    The last company in our sector, Sonida Senior Living, finally reported fourth quarter and full-year 2023 earnings, and while pretty good, that was not even the story. The story started four weeks ago. In February, the company announced a series of capital transactions which reduced their debt, raised some equity, and provided liquidity to take... Read More »
  • Marcus & Millichap Arranges SNF Leases

    After purchasing four senior care campuses in a large portfolio deal, a seniors housing owner/operator turned to Marcus & Millichap to find new tenants for the skilled nursing portions of each newly acquired campus. Each building was losing close to $1 million annually and had struggled with occupancy and expenses.  While the portfolio... Read More »
  • LSS Absorbs Diakon

    Two large not-for-profits announced that they were combining to create the 12th largest not-for-profit senior living organization in the country. Lutheran Senior Services, based in St. Louis, Missouri, signed an agreement to bring Diakon Senior Living operations and four CCRCs under its umbrella. Both organizations were described by Adam Marles,... Read More »
  • SNF Under Receivership Is Acquired in Kansas

    Marcus & Millichap was brought on by a limited liability company in the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Topeka, Kansas, that was under receivership. The facility, Providence Living Center, comprises 78 beds across 24,000 square feet and focuses on senior residents with mental health needs. Rod Llanos and Colby Haugness handled the... Read More »

Wow…Sonida Senior Living

The last company in our sector, Sonida Senior Living, finally reported fourth quarter and full-year 2023 earnings, and while pretty good, that was not even the story. The story started four weeks ago. In February, the company announced a series of capital transactions which reduced their debt, raised some equity, and provided liquidity to take the company on to the next stage. It must have taken a few weeks to sink in, or at least to get investors thinking about the future of the company instead of thinking about survivability. And a year ago, there was a question as to how long the company would stay afloat. In January, the share price averaged between $8 and $9, increasing to a range of... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Private Equity Ownership in Health Care

60 Seconds with Swett: Private Equity Ownership in Health Care

We have long been tired of the often-inaccurate claims of “private equity’s takeover of the nursing home industry” and the too-simplistic or misleading correlations between PE ownership and quality of care. Of course there are never any mentions of the need for SNF owners to make a profit or the benefits of fresh capital injections into the industry and into aging physical plants. We have also written several times that, according to our data, PE firms have only been the buyers in about 5% of SNF deals, a share that has actually shrunk in the last couple of years.  Seniors housing was higher, above 10% of acquisitions, but a study done by our sister site LevinPro HC shows that several... Read More »
Fast-Growing SNF Operator Files for IPO

Fast-Growing SNF Operator Files for IPO

There may be a new publicly traded senior care company on the horizon, as PACS Group, a Utah-based skilled nursing operator with more than 200 facilities in its current portfolio, filed for an initial public offering with the SEC on March 13. It plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol PACS. The company is barely 10 years old but has grown its reach to nine states, serves more than 20,000 patients daily and reported $3.1 billion of total revenue in 2023. NOI in 2023 reached $112.9 million, while adjusted EBITDA was $276.5 million. It also has about $732 million of debt on its books. As recently as 2020, the company only had 65 facilities in its portfolio, so the bulk of its acquisitions... Read More »
Fast-Growing SNF Operator Files for IPO

Steady As She Goes For Chartwell

Chartwell Retirement Residences, the largest operator of seniors housing in Canada, posted a slight 20-basis point decline in census in February, to 85.5%. They are forecasting no drop for March and a 20-basis point rise for April. If that holds, they will escape the winter census blues, and the December to April period would end up showing an 80 basis-point increase. Chartwell had a remarkable run in 2023, with occupancy increasing by 520 basis points, certainly an above-average jump for 12 months, especially a few years after the bottom. They are expecting rate increases in 2024 to average 5%, and same-community margins to increase by about 400 basis points in 2024 to 38%, from 34% in... Read More »
Fast-Growing SNF Operator Files for IPO

Brookdale Census Holds Steady So Far

We all know that historically the winter months have never been kind to nursing home census. Known as the flu season, occupancy tends to drop in the first quarter by 50 to 100 basis points, if not more. The same has been true for assisted living, especially since acuity levels started rising more than a decade ago. The one exception for some providers was during the pandemic recovery, when census was ramping up at unprecedented rates in general, and the flu was nothing compared with COVID. Brookdale Senior Living just announced its February occupancy results, and while they noted it was an improvement from “normal” pre-pandemic seasonality, first quarter-to-date occupancy declined by 40... Read More »
Fast-Growing SNF Operator Files for IPO

Recovery Continues at Sabra Health Care REIT

After all the earnings reports for the fourth quarter 2023, we think it is safe to say the industry really has moved on from the pandemic. Not that the lasting effects have disappeared, as they may be with us for the rest of the decade, but most everyone seems to be getting back to “normal,” although at a different pace for each one. Sabra Health Care REIT is one of those that can safely be said to be on the safe side of the pandemic. With its fourth quarter earnings, it put out earnings guidance for 2024 for the first time since 2020. Like everyone else, Sabra and its tenants still have a way to go, but most everything is moving in the right direction.  What we like is that the lease... Read More »