Jason Signor (left, shown with HREI Editor John B. Mugford) received his HREI Insights Awards™ award at the RealShare conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., in December. (HREI photo)

2016 HREI Insights Awards: Five questions for Jason Signor

2016 HRE Executive of the Year talks about starting and growing Caddis By John B. Mugford It’s been quite a meteoric rise for Dallas-based Caddis since its founding in 2008 by a young man with a background as a civil engineer. Since Jason Signor started the company as an evolution from the real estate arm […]

Tim Oliver (center), flanked by two of his NexCore colleagues, Todd Varney (left) and Greg Venn (right), received his HREI Insights Awards™ Lifetime Achievement Award at the RealShare HRE conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., in December. NexCore also won the award in the “Best New Development, MOBs and Other Outpatient Facilities (25,000 to 49,999 square feet)” category. (HREI photo)

2016 HREI Insights Awards: Tim Oliver has been a HRE innovator

His legacy includes having a hand in 90-plus facilities in the past 40-plus years By Murray W. Wolf We at Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ probably first met Tim Oliver back in late 2004 or early 2005. At that time, a new healthcare real estate (HRE) company he had joined, NexCore Group, was barely one year […]

The 72,022 square foot Medical Arts Center at The Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute in Plainville, Conn., about 15 minutes outside of Hartford, is now owned by Physicians Realty Trust, which paid $30.25 million for the medical office building (MOB). (Photo courtesy of HFF)

Transactions: Connecticut MOB saw high demand Physicians Realty Trust acquires outpatient cancer care facility for $30.25 million

Physicians Realty Trust acquires outpatient cancer care facility for $30.25 million By John B. Mugford At 95 percent occupied and sitting on the outpatient campus of a prestigious cancer institute in the Northeast, the two-year-old Medical Arts Center at The Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute in Plainville, Conn., looked to be a lock to attract strong […]

The 11,920 square foot 75 Baker St. building in Providence, R.I., is one of 12 mostly medical properties Benedict Realty Group recently acquired for $60 million, adding to a portfolio of mostly medical buildings totaling more than 600,000 square feet. (Photo courtesy of HFF)

Transactions: Benedict adds to medical portfolio

Most recent $60 million buy brings firm’s total to more than 600,000 square feet By John B. Mugford In an early fourth quarter (Q4) 2016 transaction that seemed to slip under the radar of many publications, New York-based Benedict Realty Group (BRG) closed on purchase of a $60 million, 12-building portfolio comprising mostly medical tenants […]

A new MOB, the first building of a two-phase project, is planned for the far end of a parking lot at an office complex at 7700 France Ave., in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, Minn. The developer is Edina-based Frauenshuh Commercial Real Estate. (Rendering courtesy of the city of Edina)

Outpatient Projects: MOB campus planned in Minnesota

Frauenshuh proposes MOBs near Minneapolis suburb’s prominent medical corridor By John B. Mugford In the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., one of the most prominent medical corridors is adjacent to the 338-bed Fairview Southdale Hospital in the affluent first-ring suburb of Edina. According to a recent Minneapolis-St. Paul Medical Office report by […]

Many urgent care centers are expanding into more complex services, such as physical therapy and concussion screening. (Photo courtesy of Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System)

Industry Pulse: Urgent care centers are still important, growing

The number of centers and patient volumes are increasing while wait times are declining. For those involved in the development and ownership of healthcare real estate (HRE), it looks as if owning a standalone urgent care center (UCC) building or having a UCC in your medical office building (MOB) continues to be a good bet, […]

Officials with Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach recently broke ground on a $275 million expansion that includes this future eight-story, 155-bed surgical/patient tower and an expanded 35,000 square foot emergency department. (Rendering courtesy of Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida)

Inpatient Projects: $275M project starts in Miami Beach

Mount Sinai continues to see growing demand for its services on Biscayne Bay By John B. Mugford When Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida opened its first emergency department (ED) on its campus in Miami Beach in 1972, there were three other hospitals on the island, which was inhabited mostly by retirees. Things have changed […]

Industry Pulse: Docs feeling the stress of today’s environment

Industry Pulse: Docs feeling the stress of today’s environment

U.S. physicians are struggling with morale, adapting to new models and access to care. While it might be a lucrative profession, being a doctor isn’t all that easy or stress-free these days, according to the people who would know best: doctors themselves. According to the 2016 Survey of America’s Physicians by Dallas-based Merritt Hawkins, a physician […]

The new $550 million, 27-story, 242-bed Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is scheduled to open March 25 at 355 E. Erie St. in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, replacing and rebranding the 182-bed Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) hospital at 345 E. Superior St. (Rendering courtesy of RIC)

Post-Acute & Senior Living: $550M rehab hospital set to open

Rebranded AgilityLab facility will replace the Rehabiltation Institute of Chicago By Murray W. Wolf The new $550 million, 27-story, 242-bed Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is scheduled to open March 25 at 355 E. Erie St. in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood. The new facility will replace, rebrand and expand the 182-bed Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) hospital at 345 […]

Elion Partners and The Davis Group Enter Joint Venture to Build 50,000 Square Feet of Medical Office (Rendering courtesy of Elion Parthers)

News Release: Woodbury’s CityPlace Unveils New Medical Office Development Plans

Elion Partners – Woodbury, MN / January 25, 2017 Elion Partners and The Davis Group Enter Joint Venture to Build 50,000 Square Feet of Medical Office Elion Partners and The Davis Group have entered a joint venture to develop a Class A medical office building at CityPlace in Woodbury, Minn. The new medical office building […]

O'Quinn Medical Tower, Houston

News Release: JLL Healthcare Capital Markets had more than $1 billion in transactions in 2016

2016 Healthcare Capital Markets Transactions The JLL Healthcare Capital Markets team is proud to announce another successful year with over $1B in healthcare transactions. JLL Healthcare Capital Markets JLL Healthcare Capital Markets is the only national full service healthcare capital markets team in the real estate industry focused on medical office, hospitals, seniors housing and post-acute […]

News Release: Optimal Outcomes Project Named 2016 HREI Insights Awards™ Finalist

Optimal Outcomes was honored to be named as a finalist amongst the best of the best in healthcare real estate for the 2016 HREI Insight Awards, the only national awards totally dedicated to recognizing excellence in the areas of healthcare real estate development and executive leadership. Optimal Outcomes’ Brandon Medical Pavilion was named Finalist among […]

Women’s Health Center of West Michigan, Grand Rapids, Mich. (Photo courtesy of Marcus & Millichap)

News Release: Marcus & Millichap Facilitates the Largest 2016 Medical Office Transaction in Michigan

January 23, 2017 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 23, 2017– Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI), a leading commercial real estate investment services firm with offices throughout the United States and Canada, announced the sale of the Women’s Health Center of West Michigan, a four-story, 106,806-square-foot medical office building. The Class A asset is 93 percent occupied […]

Thought Leaders: Navigant's 2017 Healthcare Trends

Thought Leaders: Navigant’s 2017 Healthcare Trends

Navigant’s 2017 Healthcare Outlook Is healthcare breaking bad or headed in the right direction? The ACA’s future is uncertain with a new president occupying the Oval Office, but it’s clear the pressure on providers to improve quality and reduce costs will only intensify, no matter the new administration’s approach. Following are trends that will impact […]

Peter Scott

News Release: Peter Scott to Join HCP as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

News Release Issued: Jan 23, 2017 (8:55am EST) IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — HCP (NYSE:HCP) today announced that Peter Scott will join the company as Executive Vice President and CFO, effective February 13, 2017.  Mr. Scott succeeds Tom Herzog who was appointed Chief Executive Officer in January 2017. “On behalf of our Board, Executive […]