Enterprise Risk Management Involves Everyone, Including Residents “Are we good, or are we lucky?” That was the challenge that Deborah Hart was asked to address about three years ago, when she became CFO of Smith Senior Living in Chicago, Illinois. At the time, Smith...
When the end of a fiscal quarter coincides with the end of a calendar year, big things happen in the long-term care market. One of the biggest in December was the sale of six Juniper Communities LLC properties for $94 million in a sale-leaseback transaction with LTC...
Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals Inc. is in bankruptcy proceedings, so it is selling its rights to hemophilia compound OBI-1 as well as related assets, to Baxter International, Inc. (NYSE: BAX). Paris-based Ipsen Pharma S.A.S. (Euronext: IPN; ADR; IPSEY) is selling...
Reform Won’t Impact Everyone The Same, But… When the debates began in the most recent round of health care reform, we seem to remember that the primary goal was to reduce the number of uninsured, with some people believing that health care was a “right” that,...
Close but no cigar for Allergan, Inc. (NYSE: AGN), considering it missed the billion-dollar mark with its $958 million acquisition for MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPP). Or perhaps the global health care giant deserves a cigar after all, for buying the...