Q2:23 Thematic Earnings Roundup

Q2:23 Thematic Earnings Roundup

This earnings season has provided us with insights into how various publicly traded healthcare companies are navigating the current landscape. Let’s delve into the trends and outcomes that defined the second quarter of 2023. The Home Health & Hospice Market: The Erosion of Medicare Fee-For-Service The Home Health & Hospice (HH&H) market has been volatile of late, with companies like Amedisys Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED) reporting a significant shortfall in earnings and a decline in revenue compared to the same period last year. Amedisys reported a financial loss in the second quarter of $80.3 million, after reporting a profit in the same 2022 period. A significant portion of this... Read More »
Travel Nurse Across America Acquires Stogo

Travel Nurse Across America Acquires Stogo

Travel Nurse Across America (TNAA) announced on August 24 the acquisition of Stogo, a health system shift and float pool management platform based in San Antonio, Texas. According to data captured from the LevinPro HC database, this acquisition represents the 21st healthcare staffing transaction of 2023. The mobile app-based Stogo platform enables healthcare providers to fill critical staffing gaps with their internal employees or with local, Stogo-employed clinicians in their community. According to the original press release, clinicians will fill more than 100,000 shifts this year through Stogo’s mobile staffing marketplace. TNAA is a staffing agency that places travel nurse... Read More »
Shuman Development Group Acquires Reading, PA Medical Office Buildings 

Shuman Development Group Acquires Reading, PA Medical Office Buildings 

Shuman Development Group announced its acquisition of two medical office buildings (MOBs) Pennsylvania from Penn State Health.  The Penn State Health St. Joseph downtown properties in Reading, Pennsylvania are located at 604 Walnut Street and 145 North 6th Street. Haven Behavioral Hospital of Eastern Pennsylvania, an acute care behavioral health hospital, is housed on the third floor of the North 6th Street property.  Shuman Development Group is a Reading, Pennsylvania-based real estate developer.  Following the sale, which is expected to close in October 2023, Penn State Health will become a tenant in the buildings. Terms were not disclosed.  According to data captured... Read More »
Vesey Street Capital Partners Sells Portfolio Company QualityMetric

Vesey Street Capital Partners Sells Portfolio Company QualityMetric

Vesey Street Capital Partners (VSCP) announced last week that it completed the full sale of its portfolio company, QualityMetric.  Founded in 1997, QualityMetric combines its proprietary scientifically validated general health and disease-specific surveys with its technology, advanced analytics and sector expertise to work with all the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies in clinical trials and patient surveillance.  VSCP is a strategic private equity manager founded in 2014 that focuses on healthcare services. Since its inception, the firm has consummated 39 transactions across 9 platform businesses and has deployed approximately $600 million in capital.  VSCP had... Read More »
Shuman Development Group Acquires Reading, PA Medical Office Buildings 

Montecito Medical Acquires Two Las Vegas Medical Office Buildings 

Montecito Medical Real Estate announced on August 22 its acquisition of two medical office buildings (MOBs) in Las Vegas.  The properties, which total1 6,536 square feet, are fully occupied by Women’s Health Associates of Southern Nevada. One of the two properties serves as the group’s practice hub, and the other is adjacent to a 297-bed hospital, Valley Hospital Medical Center, in the heart of a medical corridor.  Montecito Medical Real Estate specializes in healthcare-related real estate acquisitions and funding. Since 2006, it has completed transactions across the United States involving more than $5.1 billion in medical real estate.  With the addition of these two... Read More »
Q2:23 Thematic Earnings Roundup

Medical Properties Trust Cuts Dividend in Half to Bolster its Balance Sheet 

After several large-scale divestments, one of the largest hospital landlords in the country is cutting its dividend to investors by nearly 50%. Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (​​​​NYSE: MPW) announced on Monday that “its Board of Directors has adopted an updated capital allocation strategy designed to significantly strengthen its balance sheet.”  The dividend will be slashed from $0.29 per quarter to $0.15, which, according to the company, should help reduce leverage and improve long-term debt and equity capital costs.  This change follows a number of divestments from MPW’s portfolio after the past 18 months that have resulted in lower adjusted funds from operations, including its... Read More »