Post-acute care is diversifying and specializing in more ways than one. A 200-bed skilled nursing facility in Brooklyn, New York recently opened a new 50-bed rehab and skilled nursing unit tailored to the needs of the local Chinese population. Called Longevity Garden, the fifth floor unit of the facility will feature a Chinese-inspired design, a menu consisting of Chinese entrees prepared on site and both Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking staff, along with other dialects. The facility’s owner, The Allure Group, has been growing fast in the Brooklyn market, with five skilled nursing facilities in the borough (the fifth having been added in early 2015 at a cost of $36 million, or $132,841 per bed), and is looking to expand in Manhattan, having acquired a 200-bed skilled nursing facility in Harlem in September 2014. Allure also had purchased a shuttered nursing facility on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, but early this year sold the six-story, 145,000-square foot building to several real estate developers, which included Vanke Holdings USA LLC, a subsidiary of China Vanke, China’s largest residential developer, for $116 million in order to build luxury condominiums. Pockets flush, what is Allure’s next move? We shall have to wait and see.
Allure of Brooklyn
