• Owner/Operator Acquires Its Second Community

    Unbridled Living, an owner/operator of independent living, assisted living and memory care communities across the United States, acquired its second seniors housing community, The Reserve at North Dallas. The Class-A community is in Dallas, Texas, with 247 independent living and 26 assisted living units.  The building was in good shape, as... Read More »
  • Not-For-Profit Sells Distressed SNF to Regional Owner/Operator

    A not-for-profit seniors housing provider with a century-long legacy of serving seniors divested an underperforming skilled nursing facility in Marietta, Ohio. The non-core asset no longer aligned with the seller’s strategy.  After a confidential marketing process, Connor Doherty, Ryan Kelly and Michael Segal of Blueprint identified a... Read More »
  • Public REIT Closes Out Multi-Transaction Portfolio Divestment

    Blueprint advised a public REIT on the sale of a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities across California, Florida and Virginia. The transactions were trifurcated by state, with the final closing in California. This SNF serves San Bernardino County, which has significant barriers to new development.  At the time of marketing, the facility... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Revived Assisted Living Community

    Helios Healthcare Advisors represented Investcor in its divestment of an assisted living community that it acquired in 2019. The community had sat vacant after its closure in 2007 until Investcor’s purchase. Post-acquisition, the company invested more than $8 million in renovations, with the building reopening in 2020.  Fairhaven Denton... Read More »
  • VIUM’s Slew of Financings

    We have written about the uptick of liquidity in the seniors housing and care market, and the willingness among lenders to write bigger and bigger checks to finance larger portfolios. Well, VIUM Capital just announced a slew of financings totaling more than $180 million for four senior care portfolios.  The largest was arranged for three... Read More »
Can Skilled Nursing Be Reformed?

Can Skilled Nursing Be Reformed?

The American Health Care Association and Leading Age have proposed a reform agenda for skilled nursing. As usual, the problem is Medicaid. The American Health Care Association and Leading Age have proposed a policy “agenda” to address some of the problems that exist in skilled nursing facilities today, which were obviously highlighted by the impact of the pandemic.  As part of the reforms, they want enhanced infection control practices, 24-hour RNs, 30-day minimum supply of PPE, better recruiting and retention of staff, improved oversight systems, and a shift to all private rooms. There is little here to disagree with, except that they expect Medicaid to pick up most of the $15... Read More »

CCRCs to Become LPCs?

Leading Age announced this week that they are proposing a new name for CCRCs: Life Plan Communities. What is it about all these name changes? First we have Health Care REIT becoming Welltower, followed by ALFA becoming Argentum. Now Leading Age, which already changed its name several years ago, has proposed that the industry adopt a new name for CCRCs, coming up with “Life Plan Communities.” A lot of people have had a desire to get away from the alphabet soup acronyms that are so common (ALFA, ASHA, AHCA, AAHSA), but these acronyms do make it easier at times. Will the new name become LPCs? That sounds a bit clinical to me, but who... Read More »