Study: Mentally challenging activities key to maintaining brain health
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 18, 2016
Learning something new, such as digital photography or quilting, may help your residents maintain healthy brains into late adulthood, according to new research.
Healthpeak sees record year for CCRC entrance fees, cash collection, as merger, potential portfolio sale...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 12, 2024
Denver-based Healthpeak Properties saw a record year of entrance fee sales and cash collection in 2023 for its portfolio of 15 continuing care retirement communities, Chief Financial Officer Pete Scott...
Updated: Healthpeak Properties to merge with Physicians Realty Trust in $21 billion deal
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 30, 2023
Denver-based real estate investment trust Healthpeak Properties, with a portfolio that includes 15 continuing care retirement communities, will merge with Milwaukee-based Physicians Realty Trust in an...
63-SNF Regency becomes new nonprofit, Wellsential Health
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 10, 2023
The Victoria, TX-based organization now known as Wellsential Health now is the largest family of nonprofit SNFs in Texas, according to the company.
DOJ accuses South Carolina of unnecessarily segregating adults with mental illness in assisted living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 10, 2023
The state of South Carolina violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by unnecessarily segregating adults with serious mental illness in assisted living communities, the US Department of Justice said...
Diversified Healthcare Trust: Future in ‘substantial doubt’ as stand-alone company
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 10, 2023
“Current conditions raise substantial doubt about our company’s ability to continue as a going concern as a stand-alone company,” Diversified Healthcare Trust President and CEO Jennifer Francis said...
Enlivant portfolio sale process to begin before end of year, Sabra Health Care REIT CEO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 09, 2022
The 157-community, 6,996-unit Enlivant senior living portfolio in which Sabra Health Care REIT has a 49% stake through a joint venture with private equity firm TPG Real Estate will go up for sale by the...
Updated: Sabra Health Care REIT to move 24 North American Health Care properties to Ensign, Avamere
By
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...
Updated: Welltower to move 147 ProMedica SNFs to Integra Health JV; ProMedica to continue to operate...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 07, 2022
Toledo, OH-based real estate investment trust Welltower will move 147 skilled nursing facilities currently operated by Toledo-based ProMedica Senior Care into a joint venture between Welltower and Integra...
AHCA/NCAL, 15 other groups pressure HHS to extend public health emergency
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 12, 2022
The official start of summer is more than a month away, but 16 national organizations, including the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living, were thinking of fall and the...