Industry Pulse: On the Record – Richard “Dick” D. Daniels
What’s ahead for the new Kaiser Permanente medical office model?
Industry Pulse: Duke Realty CEO declines to comment on rumors of potential MOB portfolio sale
Since we learned March 2 about rumors that Duke Realty Corp. (NYSE: DRE) might be exploring the sale of some or all of its 86-asset medical office building (MOB) portfolio, we at Healthcare Real Estate Insights have been trying to determine the veracity of the story. So far, our efforts to obtain any comment from Duke Realty have […]
Industry Pulse: $3 billion MOB portfolio sale on the horizon?
For an update version of this story, please see: Industry Pulse: Duke Realty CEO declines to comment on rumors of potential MOB portfolio sale Unconfirmed news report about a possible sale by Duke Realty was a hot topic at March 8 HRE conference in Los Angeles By John B. Mugford At the InterFace Healthcare Real Estate […]
Industry Pulse: On the Record – Todd Meredith
How is the current political uncertainty affecting medical development?
Industry Pulse: What are the Top 4 Healthcare Trends?
Report from Navigant zeros in on a quartet of key issues “The future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is an even bigger elephant in the room now that a Republican has been elected to the Oval Office. But instead of waiting or wavering, hospital and health system leaders need to continue to focus their […]
Industry Pulse: More Micro Hospitals, Improved EDs and More
Architecture firm releases five predictions for 2017 healthcare facility design trends In a recent article in Becker’s Hospital Review, the healthcare architecture firm E4H released its five predictions for healthcare facility design trends in 2017.
Industry Pulse: On the Record – Mercedes Kerr
What will be Welltower’s investment focus during 2017?
Industry Pulse: Hospital Construction Headed for 4-Year High
New, expanded and replaced hospitals in pipeline total about 32.7 million square feet It looks as if 2017 is going to be a very big year for new hospital construction projects.
Industry Pulse: Florida Medical Condo Comeback?
Aventura, Fla., med tower tops out, is about two-thirds sold One of the first medical office condominium projects to be built in a number of years in Miami-Dade County, Fla., is well underway near the 407-bed Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, part of HCA East Florida and Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA).
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, […]
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 […]
Industry Pulse: Consolidation Picks Up In Rehab Sector
Long-fragmented rehab sector seeing plenty of consolidation With services along the continuum of care continuing to play ever increasing roles in the delivery of healthcare services, one sector continues to catch the eye of investors: rehabilitation.
Industry Pulse: 56% Want Obamacare ‘Fixed,’ Poll Finds
Proportion who want a total repeal declines to 30 percent As the country waits to see if the Trump administration and Republican leaders in Congress will indeed repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as they have promised, a slight majority of likely U.S. voters – 56 percent – want the […]
Industry Pulse: On the Record – Dirk Aulabaugh
How would you assess the current environment for healthcare REITs? “There are very few traditional sectors in the REIT space that are trading at real premiums to their NAV (net asset value), but the sectors that are include healthcare, industrial, net lease and manufactured homes.”
Industry Pulse: On the Record – Jackie Lundblad
What does the future look like for smaller physician practices? “I think that private practice physicians, especially those in the one- or two-person groups, have had a lot of pressure on their practices over the last six-plus years or so. Be it from administrative changes and documentation that they need to fill out to electronic […]
