Popular Community Bank, a subsidiary of Popular, Inc., closed a three-for-one financing for a Staten Island skilled nursing facility. The 372-bed facility includes a fully occupied 72-bed neuro-behavioral unit that is one of two in downstate New York. The operator, Centers Healthcare, acquired the then-300-bed facility in 2012 for $34 million, or $113,333 per bed, from St. Vincent Medical Center when the hospital was going through financial difficulties. Centers plans to add another 72 beds to its neuro-behavioral unit, for which Popular secured a $9 million leasehold improvement line of credit. In addition, the bank provided a $32 million mortgage to replace the facility’s existing mortgage, as well as a $1.5 million working capital line of credit. Ken Mitchell heads Popular’s National Healthcare Financing division, which launched in late 2014.
A Popular deal
