ITHACA, N.Y. — To celebrate its first symposium since 2016, Cornell’s Institute for Healthy Futures is convening industry leaders and academics from across health, hospitality and design to collaborate on ways these combined disciplines can improve quality of life. Held on the Cornell campus in Ithaca from May 11 to 13, the event will include lectures and panels led by economists, senior living and hospitality entrepreneurs, and healthcare practitioners and designers. Beth Mace, chief economist at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care (NIC), and Rohit Verma, founding …
BETHESDA, Md. — MidCap Financial, a Bethesda-based lender focused on middle-market transactions, has acquired a “significant portion” of Sector Financial’s managed healthcare asset-based lending portfolio, totaling over $500 million in commitments and over $300 million in funded assets. “We are pleased to expand our portfolio and forge meaningful new partnerships with borrowers in one of our core verticals, serving as a leading capital provider to the healthcare industry and the middle market overall,” says Garrett Fletcher, product head of asset-based lending at MidCap Financial.
Through value-add acquisitions and ground-up developments, new owner-operator is a big believer in the power of collaboration. By Jeff Shaw For a company that’s less than two years old, Distinctive Living has grown quickly. Launched in 2021, Distinctive currently operates 27 seniors housing communities under third-party contracts, with 19 of its own ground-up projects in some phase of development through its affiliate company, Distinctive Living Development. The company, based in Freehold, New Jersey, plans to have an ownership stake in all its own development endeavors. Those 27 communities total 2,881 …
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — LTC Properties Inc. (NYSE: LTC ), a REIT that primarily invests in seniors housing and healthcare properties, has announced plans to diversify its portfolio through the transition and possible sale of some of the properties in its Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) portfolio, following Brookdale’s election not to exercise its lease renewal option. Brookdale is contractually obligated to pay rent on the portfolio of 35 assisted living communities across eight states through the end of the lease term on Dec. 31, 2023. The portfolio represents 8.4 …
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Otterbein SeniorLife has recently joined Perennial Advantage of Ohio Inc., a Columbus-based operator-owned Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan. Otterbein launched the Perennial program in nine of its locations. With this partnership, Perennial Advantage will now operate in 40 senior living communities across Ohio. Perennial Advantage, a member of Perennial Consortium LLC, offers enhanced care for residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities and independent living communities by providing on-site care teams of healthcare professionals. These teams will work together with each facility’s existing staff to enhance quality …
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Vivage Senior Living and Beecan Health Colorado have merged, bringing together an integrated network of care. The two companies combined operate 42 skilled nursing facilities totaling 3,600 licensed beds in the state of Colorado. In addition to providing a large variety of placement options, Vivage-Beecan is also dedicated to enhancing specialty program development. This unified network of skilled nursing facilities allows residents and family members greater access to healthcare solutions in every corner of the state of Colorado, according to the company.
TOLEDO, Ohio and ROANOKE, Va. — Welltower Inc (NYSE: WELL) and Retirement Unlimited Inc. (RUI) have formed a partnership under which RUI will operate luxury seniors housing communities under a newly launched Elancé brand. Welltower, a Toledo-based REIT, installed Roanoke-based RUI as the operator of Fountains at Washington House in Alexandria, Virginia in November. Following the change, the property was renamed Elancé at Alexandria and became the first community under the new banner. The two companies have planned a “significant expansion in the programmatic relationship between Welltower and RUI” in …
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Strawberry Fields REIT, a South Bend-based owner of skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and long-term acute care hospitals throughout the Midwest and South, will officially begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange American on Wednesday, Feb. 22. The stock exchange, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange, is known for representing small-cap companies that are not yet big enough to list on the New York Stock Exchange, according the U.S. News & World Report. The company announced in April of last year that it …
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Oxford Finance LLC, an Alexandria-based specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies worldwide, provided $867 million in healthcare real estate loans in 2022. The total was an annual record for the company’s Healthcare Real Estate Group, which closed a total of 14 transactions, with credit facilities ranging from $9 million to over $124 million. Highlights included: Oxford provided an $80.8 million term loan and an $8.5 million revolving line of credit to finance the acquisition of four healthcare campuses comprised …
NEWTON, Mass. — ABP Acquisition LLC has agreed to acquire Newton-based operator AlerisLife Inc. (NASDAQ: ALR) for $1.31 per share, or $43.8 million, and take the company private. The price represents an 85 percent premium to the average stock price over the 30 days prior to the sale announcement, which was 71 cents per share. ABP is majority owned and controlled by Adam Portnoy, one of ALR’s managing directors and the chair of its board of directors. ABP and its affiliates currently own approximately 6.1 percent of ALR’s outstanding shares …