Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has successfully advised its publicly traded REIT client, CareTrust REIT, on the sale of a 120-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Baltimore, Maryland area. Built in 1999, the community had struggled from an operational standpoint. 

The team of Amy Sitzman, Giancarlo Riso, Kory Buzin, and Steve Thomes was originally hired to run a sales process in the community but later advised CareTrust REIT to structure a new lease with a multistate behavioral health operator. Then, that multistate behavioral health operator will convert the community into an addiction recovery center. 

This acquisition marks the publicly traded REIT’s first entrance into behavioral health creating a potential new vertical growth opportunity.