Brookdale’s $4 billion acquisition on hold: report
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 07, 2017
Brookdale Senior Living’s talks to be acquired by Beijing-based Zhonghong Zhuoye Group Co. Ltd. have stalled because Chinese regulatory officials are more carefully scrutinizing overseas investments...
Holiday management transition hurting occupancy, New Senior says
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Lois A. Bowers
May 07, 2017
Holiday Retirement’s transition from live-in property managers to more traditional executive directors has negatively affected occupancy at its communities, New Senior Investment Group executives...
Brookdale Senior Living sells remaining interest in home health, hospice, therapy business, sees $27...
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Lois A. Bowers
Dec 27, 2023
Brookdale Senior Living has sold the remaining 20% equity interest it held in its Health Care Services unconsolidated venture and received aggregate proceeds of approximately $27 million in the process,...
Updated: Sabra Health Care REIT to move 24 North American Health Care properties to Ensign, Avamere
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 07, 2022
Irvine, CA-based real estate investment trust Sabra Health Care REIT will transition a 24-property skilled nursing portfolio leased to North American Health Care to two of Sabra’s existing tenants, The...
Seniors housing is bright spot for Welltower in second quarter
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 30, 2017
The seniors housing operating portfolio was “the highlight” of the second quarter for Welltower, “with meaningful outperformance relative to our budget,” Shankh Mitra, the real...
‘Time to move on’ from healthcare reform, or is it?
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 30, 2017
Provider groups applauded Friday’s early-morning failure of the Senate’s effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Some in the federal government, however, later suggested that...
AlerisLife CEO: Becoming a private company will ‘enhance our focus’ on operations
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 06, 2023
AlerisLife, in becoming a private company by being acquired by one of its managing directors, will be better able to focus on its business and mission, AlerisLife President and CEO Jeffrey Leer told employees...
Is Brookdale for sale?
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 10, 2017
The country’s largest owner and operator of senior living communities is in the early stages of negotiations with Blackstone Group and others to sell all or part of the company, the Wall Street Journal...
Senior living groups oppose proposed overtime rule
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 08, 2015
Several organizations representing senior living providers have told the U.S. Department of Labor that they oppose a proposed rule that would extend Fair Labor Standards Act overtime protections to almost...
Bipartisan legislation would add LGBT protections to civil rights laws
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 14, 2019
Bipartisan legislation reintroduced Wednesday in the Senate and the House of Representatives, if passed, would amend existing federal civil rights laws to explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis...