Healthcare, Senior Living, Economics
If you are a baseball fan, you’ll appreciate the correlation between a baseball game and the present course of healthcare reform. A baseball game starts with anticipation and fanfare; speeches, the throwing out of the first pitch, the national anthem and the players taking the field. The fans settle in and the game begins with cheers … Read more
As my work is focused on healthcare and more succinctly, post-acute healthcare and senior housing, I follow overall economic trends and conditions and translate the same for the healthcare economy. As healthcare remains a private industry today, albeit one that is heavily tied to the Federal government, the general economy does impact the healthcare industry. Arguably, as with the … Read more
For the past nine months we’ve watched the cap rates trend up, occupancy trend down and the transaction market remain stagnant. The credit crisis of one year ago definitely chilled the “buyer” side and as a result, shoved values downward. The deals we did see done were few and far between, lots of one off … Read more