• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »
Capital Senior Living Postpones Vote

Capital Senior Living Postpones Vote

With so much activity around some alternative restructuring opportunities being offered for Capital Senior Living, it is no wonder they decided to postpone the shareholder meeting to vote on the Conversant Capital proposal. The new date is October 22, 10 days later than the original date of October 12. Previously, Ortelius Advisors (which owns about 13% of Cap Senior) disclosed their own recap proposal with terms that were cheaper than those of Conversant Capital. Now, Invictus Global Management has announced they too can arrange up to $150 million of new capital for Cap Senior, also at better terms for the company, and current shareholders, than the current Conversant Capital deal. ... Read More »
Families Taking Care of Families

Families Taking Care of Families

Family-run senior living communities have had a long history in our industry, but perhaps not many as long as the Rauls family in Georgia. Going back to their grandfather, who owned and operated one of the first nursing homes in Georgia more than 60 years ago, for John Rauls and his sister Ashley, you can say taking care of the elderly runs in their blood. Their father has also been in the business, and is in fact the Chairman of Rauls Living Inc., with John as CEO and Ashley as COO. Rounding out the C-Suite is the CFO, Jimmy Hill, a non-family member, but no one is holding that against him. John was recently vice president at Southeastern Retirement Management, which had several Rauls... Read More »
New Proposal for Capital Senior Living

New Proposal for Capital Senior Living

As we get closer to the voting date for shareholders to approve of the recapitalization proposal of Capital Senior Living by Conversant Capital, with the full support of Cap Senior’s management and board, at long last an alternative plan has been put forward. We didn’t think that Ortelius Advisors had much of a leg to stand on in their proxy fight without any alternative for shareholders to consider. Now we have one, as loosey-goosey as it may be.  Ortelius has proposed a new equity rights offering, which they will backstop and subscribe to well beyond their current pro rata holdings of about 12.7%. They believe that raising up to $70 million of new... Read More »
Other Healthcare Sectors See Healthy August Acquisition Activity

Other Healthcare Sectors See Healthy August Acquisition Activity

The summer surge in deal-making continued into August, and across most of the healthcare industry, with a total of 150 deals announced across all 13 healthcare sectors, a 30% increase from August of 2020. However, this was a small dip from last month when there were 155 deals made, but we imagine a few more deals may rise to the surface. This is according to statistics from our new platform LevinPro HC, which features the latest healthcare news, deals, insights and analysis.  Last month was an especially busy time for the Physician Medical Groups (PMG) sector, which accounted for nearly 25% of all deals announced in August 2021, with dental and ophthalmology practices making up nearly half... Read More »

60 Seconds With Steve Monroe: The Biden Administration Does It Again

The new requirement issued by the Biden Administration to force all nursing home workers to be vaccinated by late September, or else the facility will lose all Medicaid and Medicare funding, has unintended consequences that even a moron could see. The rationale was to “level the playing field,” by which I assume they mean preventing workers from leaving one facility with a vaccine mandate policy for another that does not have one. So gee, make all employees get vaccinated or the facility loses 90% of its revenue sources. If they don’t have staff, they can’t take care of people anyway. The problem is that by picking on nursing homes, the employees who don’t want to get jabbed can go work... Read More »