The incredible growth of the senior care market in the 1990s, particularly of the larger chains, was made possible by two financing sources: the public equity market and health care real estate investment trusts (REITs). While finance companies, banks and government...
During the mid-1990s many in the assisted living sector wanted to write off the skilled nursing market as an anachronism, a dinosaur that had served its purpose but was about to become extinct as a new climate, and philosophy, began to take shape in a much-criticized...
While every other segment of the health care services market has seen a below-average amount of merger and acquisition activity so far in 2003, the senior care market is experiencing a level of deal activity not seen since 1998. In the second quarter of this year,...
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z A Abe Briarwood Corp. Feb p. 2, Jul p. 1 ACTS Retirement-Life Communities Mar p. 5 Aegis Assisted Living Jun p. 10, Nov p. 6 Aetna May p. 5 AEW Capital Management Jan p. 6, Dec p. 6 AEW Partners IV Oct p. 4, Dec p. 7 Age...
In the senior care sector, this is not a good time to be heading to the beach for summer vacation. Too much is going on in the acquisition market, and the situation is quite fluid in several transactions, with the outcome, and price, of a few still up in the air....
Over the past 12 months, the question remained: Has the industry hit bottom yet? A market “bottom” became a moving target, with some investors looking at stock prices, others acquisition multiples, and still others the availability of capital. At several...