Q3:15 Health Care M&A, By Sector

Health care M&A in the third quarter was quite robust, with 385 transations reported across 13 sectors. That’s a new record for any third quarter, by the way. We’ll have the full break-out in The Health Care M&A Report, Third Quarter 2015, due to be published by the end of this month. In the meantime, here’s how the sectors fared in Q3:15. Read More »

Agape Senior Living Portfolio Sold

Last week’s largest deal total just $153.8 million. That modest amount was paid by an undisclosed private equity firm to acquire the Agapé Senior Living portfolio across South Carolina. The portfolio consists of 10 assisted living communities, with 856 units, and three skilled nursing facilities, with 294 beds. The buildings were constructed from 1990 to 2008, with various renovations. Occupancy averaged 77.5% at the AL/MC and 81.6% at the SNFs. The final purchase price came out to $156,400 per unit for the AL/MC units and $68,000 per bed for the skilled nursing. Read More »

Trilogy Health Services Fetches $1.1 Billion

Privately held Trilogy Health Services, the Louisville, Kentucky-based owner and operator of 96 long-term care facilities, was sold to a couple of REITs, Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III and NorthStar Healthcare Income Inc. for $1.1 billion. The joint venture between Griffin-American (which will own 70% of the JV) and NorthStar (30%) will effectively own 96.4% of Trilogy. The remaining 3.6%, or $24 million, will be owned by Trilogy management. The price includes the assumption of $205.1 million of debt. Trilogy operates 96 properties with more than 10,000 beds across four states (Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio).Trilogy owns 53 of the facilities and the remainder are leased, some... Read More »

Long-Term Care Deals Still Flourishing

The number of long-term care deals set a new record in 2014, with a total of 297 transactions announced. Through September 18th, the sector has logged 215 transactions, which could put 2015 in contention to surpass last year’s record. Or not. This is the year of the small(er) senior housing and care transaction, with deal value now standing at $9.65 billion, compared with last year’s blowout total of $29.3 billion. There were five billion-dollar-plus deals announced in 2014, compared with only one thus far in 2015. Here are the year’s biggest deals, to date. AcquirerTargetPrice Joint ventureTrilogy Health Services$1.12 billion NorthStar Realty Finance32 independent living communities$875... Read More »

Deal Volume Rose in July

July’s combined transaction total hit 127 deals, up 2% compared with the bang-up month of July 2014, which had 124 transactions. The Services sector had a strong performance, accounting for 60% of deal volume. Long-Term Care made up 27% of the volume overall with 34 announced transactions. That equalled the record set last July for the sector, and will probably break it as more deals come to light. The Managed Care sector posted some extra activity, although seven deals versus two deals the month prior and a year ago isn’t moving  the needle very high. July 2015 DealsShare of Total Services Behavioral Health Care32% Home Health & Hospice23% Hospitals76% Labs, MRI & Dialysis43%... Read More »

Long-Term Care Deals Still Piling Up

Last week, eight more acquisitions were announced in the Long-Term Care sector, bringing the total to 22 transactions for July, so far. That’s a stronger pace than we’ve seen in recent months. The deal total for the seven deals that disclosed prices was just $220 million, about one-half of the $456 million spent on LTC acquisitions in July. In the second quarter of 2015, there were 64 publicly announced acquisitions in the seniors housing and care market, compared with 62 transactions in the year-ago quarter and 70 transactions in the first quarter of 2015. For second quarter activity, the 64 deals represent a record and implies we may be in for another strong second half of the year, much... Read More »