• Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

    Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. announced several acquisitions in its third quarter results. The REIT acquired six managed seniors housing properties for $217.5 million with an estimated initial cash yield of 7.8%, three of which were acquired through a consolidated joint venture in which Sabra has a 95% equity interest. The company also purchased... Read More »
  • CareTrust’s Flurry of Acquisitions

    CareTrust REIT, Inc. closed a series of transactions totaling approximately $437 million in late October. In two separate deals, the REIT acquired 12 skilled nursing facilities and one skilled nursing campus located across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. The combined portfolio includes approximately 1,760 licensed skilled nursing beds and... Read More »
  • Ensign Adds to Its Utah and Alabama Footprint

    The Ensign Group, Inc. kicked off November with a couple of new deals. The publicly traded company acquired the real estate and operations of the following seven Stonehedge skilled nursing facilities in Utah: Stonehenge of American Fork (90 beds in American Fork) Stonehenge of Cedar City (50 beds in Cedar City) Stonehenge of Ogden (52 beds in... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Makes Its First Acquisition

    A joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and a global alternative asset manager with over $55 billion in assets under management worldwide acquired The Woods at Merrimack, a 140-unit seniors housing community in Methuen, Massachusetts. This is the first deal between CSH and the asset manager but marks the beginning of a long-term... Read More »
  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Buys Lansing Campus

    A public REIT engaged Blueprint in the confidential divestiture of a 53-unit assisted living and memory care campus in Lansing, Michigan. The campus features two standalone buildings separately catering to assisted living residents and those requiring memory care. The well-maintained campus was originally built in 1997 and consisted of 19... Read More »
Not-For-Profit Exits Two Non-Core New Mexico Assets

Not-For-Profit Exits Two Non-Core New Mexico Assets

Blueprint’s next skilled nursing transaction came from out West, in New Mexico, and featured two facilities formerly owned by the largest not-for-profit senior care provider in the country, Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, which merged with another Sioux Falls-based healthcare company, Sanford Health, in June 2018 to create a $6 billion entity. Considered to be non-core by the nonprofit, the rural facilities totaled 150 skilled nursing beds and 25 independent/assisted living units but were located on opposite sides of the state in Aztec and Lovington. They were well maintained, with one facility recently undergoing a major renovation. Amy Sitzman... Read More »
HJ Sims Helps Out New North Dakota Joint Venture

HJ Sims Helps Out New North Dakota Joint Venture

HJ Sims helped finance a couple of the largest not-for-profit providers of senior care and health care in the country in order to team up and combine their services in the Bismarck/Mandan area of North Dakota. The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society (ELGSS), which currently operates over 224 senior living and care communities, and Sanford Health, the largest rural, not-for-profit health care system with 45 hospitals and 289 other locations, each operate skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in the Bismarck area. In addition, Sanford Health operates an acute care hospital in the city. So, the organizations decided to form a joint venture to operate the facilities in the... Read More »