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A Focus on Data Friday at the Conference

Overviews of current markets trends are the highlight for many at an NIC conference, and 2016 is no different. At this year’s NIC Fall Conference, being held September 14–16 in Washington, D.C., two sessions on Friday will help attendees wrap their minds around two key questions circulating in seniors housing and care: what’s happening in the markets now, and where…
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Boosts to Interoperability Implementation May Give Skilled Nursing a Leg-Up in Meeting CMS Requirements

Interoperability can be a point of frustration for health care professionals considering the difficulties it can impose. If you’re not familiar with it, the term refers to the ability of various health care providers to collect and share patient information electronically through an electronic health record (EHR), also known as an electronic medical record (EMR). EMR also can refer to…
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Seniors Housing and Care Transactions Volume Down in 2Q: Part II

Buyer Type Activity in the Second Quarter As I described in Part I of this two-part series on transactions volume in the second quarter of 2016, the decrease in transactions volume was due to a decrease in all buyer types: the public type (any publicly-traded company), the private type (not publicly traded, such as a private REIT, single owner, or…
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Seniors Housing and Care Transactions Volume Down in 2Q: Part I

The second quarter of 2016 marked a significant drop in volume for closed seniors housing and care property sales transactions. Volume in the second quarter registered $1.6 billion. That includes $1 billion in seniors housing and $600 million in nursing care. The total volume was down 61% from the previous quarter’s $4.3 billion and down 81% from the second quarter…
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Next Up: Revenue Management

HCP Exec Previews Fall Conference Session Amid increased competition and pressure to boost revenue, dynamic pricing strategies can help building operators capture dollars that might have otherwise been left on the table.     “We need to think differently as an industry about pricing,” said Kai Hsiao, executive vice president, senior housing asset management, HCP, Inc., a large REIT based in Irvine,…
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