Capital Senior Ventures made a bet on the Las Vegas skilled nursing market, acquiring a state-of-the-art skilled nursing facility in the city for an undisclosed price. Built in 2015, the facility is the last SNF owned by Kindred Healthcare. It consists of 160 beds, including 118 private and 21 semiprivate rooms. In addition to there […]
The 2017 Trump rally has left senior care and healthcare REIT stocks behind. It looks like the so-called Trump stock market rally is continuing into 2018. Weirdly, several senior care stocks shot up in the first day of trading yesterday. Where were investors last year? Unfortunately, 2017 was about as bad as it gets for […]
The Carlyle Group, TPG and Humana are buying Kindred Healthcare and splitting the company apart. I know I am supposed to be full of holiday cheer this time of year, but yesterday’s official announcement that Kindred Healthcare will be sold to Humana, TPG and The Carlyle Group, and dismembered for just $9 per share, well, that has just made me a […]
CareTrust REIT is heading closer and closer to the 200-facility mark, currently sitting at 181 properties in 23 states, as it continues to purchase senior care facilities across the country. Just last month, the REIT bought 13 skilled nursing facilities in Washington, Texas and Idaho, all formerly operated by affiliates of Kindred Healthcare. Now, CareTrust […]
BlueMountain Capital Management has been steadily working to close its large acquisition of 96 skilled nursing facilities from Kindred Healthcare (a deal valued at approximately $700 million). For its latest tranche of closings, the firm received $128 million in acquisition financing originated by Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare Mortgage […]
New proposed reimbursement rules sent Kindred Healthcare and other home health stocks plunging, but it is necessary? Well, the home healthcare industry got hit with a jolt last week with proposed new reimbursement rules. The news sent Kindred Healthcare’s shares down 15%, which especially hurt since they are completing their exit from the skilled nursing […]
Kindred Healthcare announced an agreement to sell 89 skilled nursing facilities with 11,308 beds and seven assisted living communities with 380 licensed beds for $700 million, or $59,890 per bed. In today’s world, that can be considered cheap, since it is nearly 40% below the average price paid per bed in 2016, but there is […]
Kindred Healthcare disclosed that at least one buyer was in early talks to buy the entire company. Don’t you just love rumors? Last week, Kindred Healthcare disclosed that they were well on their way to divesting their remaining skilled nursing facilities, as planned, mostly in groups of facilities to different buyers. But we have also […]
Earnings season is almost over, and companies such as Kindred Healthcare, Genesis HealthCare and Brookdale Senior Living share the labor headwinds problem.
Since November’s crash, skilled nursing prices continue to rise. We sometimes wonder if the members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC, ever get frustrated that their recommendations often go unheeded by Congress. This is certainly the case with recommendations for skilled nursing Medicare reimbursement. Last week, MedPAC recommended a Medicare rate freeze for […]