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Inpatient Projects: Methodist Healthcare has plans for $330 million of expansions in Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Memphis-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is moving forward with two major expansion projects totaling about $330 million in its hometown, one at its flagship hospital and one at its children’s facility.

Here’s a look at one of the four smaller, neighborhood hospitals planned for the Las Vegas metropolitan area by Dignity Health and Emerus. The facility shown is the future Sahara campus. Rendering courtesy of Dignity Health Nevada

Inpatient Projects: Four small hospitals coming to Vegas

Neighborhood hospitals will have eight beds and emphasize emergency care By John B. Mugford Even though the new healthcare delivery model puts less of an impact on providing inpatient care, a pair of healthcare providers are teaming up to bring four new hospitals to growing areas of Greater Las Vegas that are in need of […]

Inpatient Projects: More Inpatient Real Estate Project News

Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics, which operates a 404-bed flagship facility in the heart of Tyler, Texas, recently announced that it plans to move forward with a new, 41,200 square foot inpatient facility with an ED on the south side of the city, which is about 100 miles east of Dallas. The community hospital, […]

Inpatient Projects: Corpus Christi, Texas, health system to expand one hospital and raze another

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Operating two hospitals within a couple of miles of each other just isn’t very efficient, according to officials with Corpus Christi, Texas-based Christus Spohn Health System.

Post-Acute & Senior Living: More Post-Acute and Senior Living news

In a newly formed joint venture (JV) partnership, Boston-based Blue Moon Capital Partners LLC and Des Moines, Iowa-based LCS are teaming up to build the 207-unit The Delaney at Parkway Lakes in Katy, Texas, a growing suburb about 30 miles west of Houston. The facility will have independent living, assisted living and memory care beds. […]

Cain Brothers says most providers are years away from having integrated care models like Kaiser Permanente in California. Photo courtesy of Kaiser Permanente

Industry Pulse: Population Health Will be a Key in 2016

PHM transition will be key to achieving IHI’s “triple aim” Population health management (PHM) will be the dominant trend for the acute care sector this year. That’s according to the recent “2016 Healthcare Industry Outlook” report from the investment bank Cain Brothers & Co. LLC.

Post-Acute & Senior Living: Senior sector might see challenges

NIC points to economic uncertainty and booming construction in some markets By Murray W. Wolf The senior housing sector might encounter “some bumps in the road” this year, as changes to the U.S. economy could have implications for capital costs, deal pricing and property valuations. Yet senior housing construction is booming in some markets.

Industry Pulse: On the Record - Dr. Larry Goodman

Industry Pulse: On the Record – Dr. Larry Goodman

Why is Rush planning a new $500M outpatient center in Chicago? “These initiatives will allow us to best coordinate services for patients, and to prepare our students for their roles as the next generation of healthcare professionals. We are excited to work with our stakeholders and partners to finalize plans and help bring the Rush […]

HSA PrimeCare redeveloped a former furniture store in River Forest, Ill., into a modern MOB for Loyola University Health System.
Photo courtesy of HSA PrimeCare

Industry Pulse: Healthcare Retailization About More Than Access

Gaining brand recognition with traffic from retail customers is also part of the strategy In a recent wrap-up of 2016 commercial real estate trends, HSA PrimeCare of Chicago spoke for the healthcare real estate (HRE) sector, citing retailization as the market’s biggest trend.

Publisher's Letter: Beyond the Pale

Publisher’s Letter: Beyond the Pale

If I looked at little peaked at the awards, here’s why Dear Reader: Being of predominantly Western European extraction, I am genetically fair-skinned – even among my fellow Caucasians. Or, as my Grandma Wolf used to exclaim when I visited her as a child, “He’s so pale!” (This was from a woman that was no […]

Capital Markets: Better together

Capital Markets: Better together

The advantages of loan consolidation through refinancing and recapitalization By Erik Tellefson Thanks to the many disparate sources of capital now available to medical office building investors, borrowers can often find themselves with multiple individual loans, frequently from different lenders. Often an investor will use a different financing source for construction loans, a second financing […]

REIT Report: G-A REIT III nearing end of purchases

REIT Report: G-A REIT III nearing end of purchases

But co-sponsors AHI and Griffin Capital are launching a new healthcare REIT By John B. Mugford With its late 2015 acquisition of Trilogy Health Services LLC, Irvine, Calif.-based Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III Inc. nearly doubled its size.

The largest MOB in the portfolio that Avison Young is managing for Harrison Street in Greater Washington, D.C., is the four-story, 131,545 square foot Woodholme Medical Office Building in Pikesville, Md. Photo courtesy of Harrison Street

Companies & People: A very big management assignment

Avison Young selected to manage 1.5M s.f. MOB portfolio in Greater D.C. area By John B. Mugford With one very large acquisition back in late 2013 and early 2014, Chicago-based Harrison Street Real Estate Capital became the largest owner of medical office buildings (MOBs) in the Washington, D.C., area.