Two Oregon Originations for Grandbridge Real Estate Capital
Two Portland, Oregon-area seniors housing communities received financing from Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group, headed by Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis. Starting in Portland proper, the team closed a $12 million non-recourse loan for a 58-unit assisted living/memory care community that at one point was the last acquisition of Sunwest Management before the company filed for bankruptcy protection. The original TIC investors then sold the community in late 2015 to Chicago-based Focus Healthcare Partners. Artegan began managing the 10-year old community, which was 85% occupied and earning over $630,000 in EBITDA at the time of the sale. Focus... Read More »A Message From The Editor
It’s been a great 30 years writing The SeniorCare Investor… It is with mixed emotions that I am announcing my retirement effective the end of this year when I will qualify for Social Security payments. I have had a good run for the past 30 years writing about the seniors housing and care industry, and while some of you may miss my musings, I am sure others will not. If you can believe it, when I got in this business in 1986, I was also brokering senior care properties. Unfortunately, not as many as I would have liked, so I turned to my pen, which over the years became my keyboard. And boy did I enjoy writing some of the stories. As you know, I liked to call it like I saw it,... Read More »Sunwest still in the news
Continuing the Sunwest saga, Omega Communities purchased a 104-unit assisted living community in Hoover, Alabama that was a Sunwest property from 2006 to 2010. When the company filed for bankruptcy protection, the lender foreclosed and then sold it to an individual investor, who issued bonds to finance the acquisition. AdCare Health Systems guaranteed the bonds, and $6.1 million were still outstanding. Recently, the community hit another speed bump, when in 2014, the state required the owner to hire a new management company, which discharged more than 30 residents. Average rents were about $2,400, but occupancy was below 50%, resulting in negative cash flow. Assuming 85% occupancy, pro... Read More »Fraud And Senior Care
Despite some high-profile allegations against senior executives for some type of financial wrong-doing, we are still thankful for all the good work done by the nation’s caregivers. What is it about caring for the elderly and financial fraud or other misdeeds? About once a week I read about a home health agency being charged with Medicare fraud. And then there is Medicaid fraud we hear about all too often with nursing facility owners, doctors and other providers. In our senior care industry, the founder of Sunwest Management, Jon Harder, was sentenced last week to 15 years in federal prison. Also last week, the SEC charged Chris Brogdon, the CEO of Global Healthcare REIT, with... Read More »Schedule a demo
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