Occupancy Woes Continue For Seniors Housing
Fourth quarter NIC MAP data for seniors housing occupancy had little good news before the flu season may decimate again. We are going to have to wait until mid-February or so to start hearing how individual seniors housing companies fared with occupancy in the fourth quarter. Our guess, however, is that it will only go downhill from there. According to NIC MAP, occupancy basically remained flat from the third quarter to the fourth, which was expected. But that means, given the bad flu season this year, the first half of 2018 could be pretty bad for occupancy. Without an increase in the fourth quarter, there may be a lot of ground that will need to be made up in the second half of 2018,... Read More »
Update On Consulate Healthcare’s Legal Affair
In major news for the skilled nursing industry, the $347.86 million judgment against affiliates of Consulate Healthcare was vacated in its entirety by the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida earlier this week. This was basically a Medicare “fraud” case. The judge ruled that the plaintiff’s assertions that a “handful of paperwork defects (for example, unsigned or undated documents) compel the decisive inference that the defendants never provided the therapy evidenced by the paperwork and billed to Medicare” was just plain wrong. To boot, the government continued to pay the defendant even though the government knew there were some disputes between the two sides regarding... Read More »
Sinking Supportive Living Facility Sells In Chicagoland
The time had finally come for the Village of Dolton (a suburb south of Chicago) to sell its 126-bed supportive living facility, as the town handed over the keys to an experienced private owner. Built in 1970, the five-story facility had undergone an extensive renovation in 2008 to accommodate the SLF license. However, years of hiring third-party managers had not improved operations at the facility. Occupancy stood at just 33%, with a 51% Medicaid and 49% private pay census, and the facility lost around $700,000 per year in EBITDAR on approximately $1.4 million of revenues. The facility also went years without capital improvements, which certainly did not help occupancy nor its... Read More »
Heavenrich & Company’s Heavenly Start
Starting 2018 off strong, Brian Clark of Heavenrich & Company sold two small memory care communities in Loveland, Colorado. This wasn’t the first deal Heavenrich & Company has handled on behalf of the family-run seller, having previously sold their communities in New Mexico. This Loveland deal featured two adjacent communities purpose built in 2010 and 2015. Each operated as a stand-alone family-run community and featured 20 units and 40 beds, combining for 80% occupancy based on units. Madison Realty Companies emerged as the buyer, paying $8.44 million, or about $210,000 per unit, for the communities, with an 8.9% cap rate. Read More »
Ziegler Closes Two More Bond Financings
Ever prolific, Ziegler closed over $115 million in bond financings on behalf of two CCRC clients. The larger of the closings totaled $75 million and was arranged for a 483-unit CCRC in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1961, the community is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ and features 378 independent living, 80 assisted living and 25 memory care units, with more than 540 residents. With the bond proceeds, the community was able to refund all of the $45.4 million of outstanding Series 2014A Bonds, refund all of the $11.1 million outstanding Series 2014B bonds, pay fees related to the termination of certain interest rate hedge agreements and... Read More »
New York Not-For-Profit Sells To Post Acute Partners
The IPA Seniors Housing team represented a not-for-profit health system in its sale of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Brockport, NY. Founded in 1944, the facility was part of the Lakeside Health System until, after years of financial distress, the system sold most of its assets and closed the 61-bed acute-care hospital adjacent to the Brockport SNF. The facility, whose current four-story building was constructed in 1997, remained a separate not-for-profit corporation without a union. It is composed of one floor of administrative offices, the kitchen and dining services, and the top three floors each containing six private rooms and 17 semi-private units, for a total of 120 beds.... Read More »
Watercrest and Waypoint
With its latest seniors housing development in Georgia, Watercrest Senior Living Group is also adding a new partner to its growing roster of development/equity partners. Waypoint Residential, a real estate investment firm focused on multifamily and student housing, is making its debut in the seniors housing industry with this project. Expected to break ground next month and open in late Spring 2019, the community is one of Watercrest’s new prototypes (with at least two others like it to be built in Columbia and Bluffton, South Carolina) with 75 units of assisted living and 32 memory care units. It is located in Newnan, Georgia, which is about 20 miles southwest of Atlanta, and marks... Read More »
Tryko Partners Purchases Another Philly-Area SNF
New Jersey-based private equity firm Tryko Partners, just added a third Pennsylvania property to its portfolio in a deal handled by Toby Siefert and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Located near Philadelphia, the 129-bed skilled nursing facility was built in 1995 but recently received $1 million in capital improvements while under management by a national operator. In those projects, a new 1,500-square foot therapy space was added. Operations were solid, with an operating margin above 10%, a 95% occupancy rate and a quality mix above 35%. Like in all of its senior care transactions, Tryko will have its in-house operating company, Marquis Health Services, manage the... Read More »
LCB Senior Living Leaves New England For First Time
LCB Senior Living is venturing outside of New England for the first time with the help of a construction loan arranged by Cushman & Wakefield. The property in question, located in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia/Wilmington MSA), will have 84 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care services, and will be the Massachusetts-based operator’s 15th seniors housing development and the first south of Connecticut. LCB, and its institutional joint venture partner, expects to complete the project in the second quarter of 2019. To finance the project, Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Jim Dooley and Caryn Donahue of Cushman & Wakefield arranged a $20.5... Read More »
When Profits Trump Care In SNFs
One family wins a $30 million verdict after citing irresponsibly poor care. In case you missed it, The New York Times had yet another expose on the skilled nursing sector, this time blaming private companies for setting up separate entities that provide services, allegedly at higher prices than market, so their profits do not appear on the facility’s P&L. One such company accused of using this strategy lost a lawsuit with a $30 million verdict after family members came in one day, removed their mother’s sock, and her foot looked like black charcoal. She soon went to the hospital and had her leg amputated above the knee. This is just plain inexcusable, and while there are always claims... Read More »Schedule a demo
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