60 Seconds with Ben Swett: Vaccine Mandates and Staff Retention
Next month, CMS will release its Interim Final Rule with a comment period on the mandate for skilled nursing facilities, but also hospitals, dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgical centers and home health agencies, to vaccinate their staff or risk losing Medicare and Medicaid funding. Even before the announcement and the FDA’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine in August, many senior care companies already issued mandates, like Atria Senior Living, LCS and Five Star Senior Living, just to name a few. But we have not heard many concrete data on staff resignations as a result of these mandates, since that is a great fear for the industry. Anecdotally, the results and predicted outcomes are all... Read More »60 Seconds With Ben Swett: The New Senior Living Rankings
U.S. News & World Report announced that it is getting into the business of ranking seniors housing communities, after already doing the same for nursing homes. We’re happy to see the initiative since improved transparency for the sector and recognition of the services that operators provide is a good thing. We are also pleased that apparently, U.S. News will dedicate one journalist to cover the sector and help educate consumers on the differences between seniors housing and SNFs, which national and local media fail to do all too often. After working with some industry leaders and associations to create a rankings methodology, Activated Insights, run by CEO Jacquelyn Kung, is... Read More »60 Seconds With Ben Swett: Staffing Scarcity Stunting the Recovery?
Driving through New England this past weekend, I was struck by the number of “help wanted” and “we’re hiring” signs across dozens of storefronts and billboards advertising job fairs for many types of businesses. All I kept thinking about was how senior care facilities were faring across the country with finding help. Not only that – qualified help. We know that senior care jobs paying somewhere just above minimum wage can be difficult, emotionally draining and receive little positive recognition from the public. So higher overall wages and hiring bonuses could easily sway a chunk of the labor force to other industries and away from senior care, which will need many... Read More »60 Seconds With Ben Swett: Assisted Living – Where Are Values Now?
More than seven months into 2021, assisted living communities have been the most popular targets in the M&A market, representing a plurality, or 41%, of all transactions in the year, so far. Average prices have also risen compared with last year, according to our in-house statistics. But we still have many questions about the market’s fundamentals, what is motivating investors, and how different facilities are being valued today. Has pent-up demand already exhausted itself for this need-based product? Is the recovery meeting expectations, particularly for cash flow rather than just census? Are stand-alone communities preferred, or a continuum of care? These types could be valued very... Read More »60 Seconds With Steve Monroe: Capital Senior Living Butting Heads
Transcript A few weeks ago, we wrote about the proposed recapitalization of Capital Senior Living. This will give effective control to the investor, Conversant Capital, and result in a lot of dilution to existing shareholders. The investment is also very expensive. We thought that Cap Senior may have had no other choice: either this or face a major liquidity crunch, and possibly bankruptcy. One investor, Ortelius Advisors, with just under a 10% interest, thinks differently, and blasted management in writing. They think there are other ways to recap the company, and that other like-minded shareholders would be willing to help out financially as well. This may all be true, but where were... Read More »Schedule a demo
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