INDIANA — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged an operator switch for a portfolio of 19 skilled nursing facilities and nine assisted living communities in Indiana. The owner is a joint venture group and the new operator is a Midwest-focused company. The outgoing operator has expressed its intention to not renew its lease.
WESTMONT, Ill. — Cambridge Realty Capital Cos. has provided a $18.1 million HUD Lean loan to refinance Bria of Westmont, a skilled nursing facility in Westmont, approximately 20 miles west of downtown Chicago. Andrew Erkes, Cambridge President, said Cambridge provided the fully amortized, 35-year loan to an Illinois limited liability company. Cambridge Realty Capital Ltd. of Illinois, the Cambridge business that specializes in underwriting FHA-insured HUD loans, underwrote the loan. Bria of Westmont is a 215-bed skilled nursing facility. It provides a range of skilled services and programs, including short-term …
By Sara Aristizabal, Delos Labs For over two years, people in the United States and around the world have lived under varying levels of precautionary measures to control the outbreak of COVID-19. Mandatory masking, vaccinations, social distancing and stay-at-home restrictions helped to slow the spread of the virus and prevent deaths. Inadvertently, these governmental policies also reduced respiratory infections that only a few years ago were of great concern, particularly among older adults and children, including influenza and the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Recently, however, many countries have either …
DALLAS — Buckner Retirement Services, a Dallas-based operator, has named Allison Vanderford to the position of senior director of sales. Vanderford will provide sales leadership and strategic support for the six Texas communities operated by the faith-based, nonprofit senior living provider. Vanderford previously worked as vice president of sales for Integrated Real Estate Group in Dallas, managing its Integrated Senior Lifestyles property portfolio. She has also held sales leadership roles at Elan Westpointe (Life Care Services) in New Braunfels, Comfort Keepers in San Antonio, and Westminster in Austin. Vanderford has …
TUCSON, Ariz. — 12 Oaks Senior Living has taken over operations of Copper Canyon Memory Care & Transitional Assisted Living in Tucson. 12 Oaks intends to expand and enhance the service offerings at the community while restoring stability and planning for long-term growth. Copper Canyon augments four other senior living properties that 12 Oaks currently manages for the same ownership group.
DES MOINES, Iowa — LCS, the nation’s third-largest senior living operator, has promoted GeLynna Shaw to the role of executive vice president of operations/senior living management. Effective Jan. 1, she will be responsible for supporting Chris Bird, president and chief operating officer, in leading the company’s operating activities. Shaw’s 25-year senior living career includes experience in finance, mergers, acquisitions and operations for both continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) and rental communities. She joined LCS in 2018 as the senior vice president of operations for the rental division and has been …
IRVINE, Calif. — Sabra Health Care REIT Inc. (NASDAQ: SBRA), an Irvine-based investor, plans to transition a 24-property portfolio previously leased to North American Health Care Inc. to two of Sabra’s existing tenants: The Ensign Group (NASDAQ: ENSG) and the Avamere Family of Companies. Ensign will add 20 properties located in California to two master leases with Ensign operating companies with initial terms of 18 and 20 years, each with an accompanying corporate guarantee from Ensign. The initial annual rent attributable to the 20 properties will be $29.4 million, with …
TUCSON, Ariz. — 12 Oaks Senior Living has acquired the operations of Copper Canyon Memory Care & Transitional Assisted Living in Tucson. 12 Oaks Senior Living intends to expand and enhance the service offerings at this community while restoring stability and planning for long-term growth. Copper Canyon augments four other senior living properties that 12 Oaks currently manages for the same ownership group. The previous operator was not disclosed.
LITTLETON, Colo. — Anthem Memory Care has named Lebana Prahl as executive director of Willowbrook Place in the Denver suburb of Littleton. She will oversee all daily care, programming and operations. Prahl previously was executive director for HighPointe Assisted Living & Memory Care in Denver. She has also served as executive director for Highlands Assisted Living and Memory Care in Lakeland, Florida. Prahl graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music therapy from Colorado State University. She is a certified dementia practitioner and brings over 26 years of senior living experience …
SACRAMENTO and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Cogir Management has acquired Cadence Living to form one of the largest operators in the United States. The transaction involves Cogir buying out the shareholders of Cadence. Both companies have a focus on the West Coast, and the combined total number of units will be approximately 8,000 across nine states. Based on the American Seniors Housing Association’s June 1 numbers, that would make the company the 21st largest operator in the country, between Merrill Gardens and publicly traded Sonida Senior Living. Cogir Management USA is …
