Ventas to Retain Most Productive LTACs Under
Upcoming LTAC Patient Criteria
Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR) (“Ventas” or the “Company”) said today
that it and Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: KND) (“Kindred”) have
entered into several agreements (the “Agreements”) to improve the
quality and productivity of the long term acute care hospital
(“LTAC”) portfolio leased by Ventas to Kindred.
Certain of the Agreements consist of lease amendments (“Lease
Amendments”) to existing master leases between Ventas and Kindred
(the “Master Leases”). Under these Lease Amendments, annual rent on
seven identified LTACs (the “7 LTACs”), which is currently
approximately $8 million, will immediately be re-allocated to other
more productive post-acute assets currently leased by Kindred from
Ventas under the Master Leases. Total annual rent on Ventas’s
post-acute care portfolio operated by Kindred will remain the same
as its current level.
“We are pleased to reach another value-creating agreement for
shareholders of both Ventas and Kindred, which also deepens our
collaborative partnership, and further strengthens Kindred’s
position as the nation's leading provider of post-acute care,”
Ventas Chairman and CEO Debra A. Cafaro said. “These agreements
accelerate Kindred’s efforts to position its LTAC business for
success under LTAC patient criteria, while also enhancing the
quality of our portfolio for our shareholders," she added.
Separately, Ventas has agreed to sell the 7 LTACs, but closing
remains subject to conditions to closing, including the receipt of
all licensure, regulatory and other approvals. Ventas expects to
receive $6.5 million in connection with the sale transactions.
These transactions are expected to better position the Ventas
portfolio to succeed under the new LTAC patient criteria to be
implemented by Kindred beginning on September 1, 2016.
The Company said the new LTAC patient criteria rules change the
way providers are paid for patient care, depending on whether
patients meet certain clinical criteria. The remaining 31 LTACs
Kindred leases from Ventas are well-positioned to succeed under the
new patient certification criteria rules.
Ventas, Inc., an S&P 500 company, is a leading
real estate investment trust. Its diverse portfolio of
approximately 1,300 assets in the United
States, Canada and the United Kingdom consists of
seniors housing communities, medical office buildings, skilled
nursing facilities, specialty hospitals and general acute care
hospitals. Through its Lillibridge subsidiary, Ventas provides
management, leasing, marketing, facility development and advisory
services to highly rated hospitals and health systems
throughout the United States. More information about
Ventas and Lillibridge can be found
at www.ventasreit.com and www.lillibridge.com.
This press release includes forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. All statements regarding the Company’s or its tenants’,
operators’, borrowers’ or managers’ expected future financial
condition, results of operations, cash flows, funds from
operations, dividends and dividend plans, financing opportunities
and plans, capital markets transactions, business strategy,
budgets, projected costs, operating metrics, capital expenditures,
competitive positions, acquisitions, investment opportunities,
dispositions, merger or acquisition integration, growth
opportunities, expected lease income, continued qualification as a
real estate investment trust (“REIT”), plans and objectives of
management for future operations and statements that include words
such as “anticipate,” “if,” “believe,” “plan,” “estimate,”
“expect,” “intend,” “may,” “could,” “should,” “will” and other
similar expressions are forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and actual
results may differ from the Company’s expectations. The Company
does not undertake a duty to update these forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are
made.
The Company’s actual future results and trends may differ
materially from expectations depending on a variety of factors
discussed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. These factors include without limitation: (a) the
ability and willingness of the Company’s tenants, operators,
borrowers, managers and other third parties to satisfy their
obligations under their respective contractual arrangements with
the Company, including, in some cases, their obligations to
indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company from and against
various claims, litigation and liabilities; (b) the ability of the
Company’s tenants, operators, borrowers and managers to maintain
the financial strength and liquidity necessary to satisfy their
respective obligations and liabilities to third parties, including
without limitation obligations under their existing credit
facilities and other indebtedness; (c) the Company’s success in
implementing its business strategy and the Company’s ability to
identify, underwrite, finance, consummate and integrate
diversifying acquisitions and investments; (d) macroeconomic
conditions such as a disruption of or lack of access to the capital
markets, changes in the debt rating on U.S. government securities,
default or delay in payment by the United States of its
obligations, and changes in the federal or state budgets resulting
in the reduction or nonpayment of Medicare or Medicaid
reimbursement rates; (e) the nature and extent of future
competition, including new construction in the markets in which the
Company’s seniors housing communities and medical office buildings
(“MOBs”) are located; (f) the extent of future or pending
healthcare reform and regulation, including cost containment
measures and changes in reimbursement policies, procedures and
rates; (g) increases in the Company’s borrowing costs as a result
of changes in interest rates and other factors; (h) the ability of
the Company’s tenants, operators and managers, as applicable, to
comply with laws, rules and regulations in the operation of the
Company’s properties, to deliver high-quality services, to attract
and retain qualified personnel and to attract residents and
patients; (i) changes in general economic conditions or economic
conditions in the markets in which the Company may, from time to
time, compete, and the effect of those changes on the Company’s
revenues, earnings and funding sources; (j) the Company’s ability
to pay down, refinance, restructure or extend its indebtedness as
it becomes due; (k) the Company’s ability and willingness to
maintain its qualification as a REIT in light of economic, market,
legal, tax and other considerations; (l) final determination of the
Company’s taxable net income for the year ended December 31, 2015
and for the year ending December 31, 2016; (m) the ability and
willingness of the Company’s tenants to renew their leases with the
Company upon expiration of the leases, the Company’s ability to
reposition its properties on the same or better terms in the event
of nonrenewal or in the event the Company exercises its right to
replace an existing tenant, and obligations, including
indemnification obligations, the Company may incur in connection
with the replacement of an existing tenant; (n) risks associated
with the Company’s senior living operating portfolio, such as
factors that can cause volatility in the Company’s operating income
and earnings generated by those properties, including without
limitation national and regional economic conditions, costs of
food, materials, energy, labor and services, employee benefit
costs, insurance costs and professional and general liability
claims, and the timely delivery of accurate property-level
financial results for those properties; (o) changes in exchange
rates for any foreign currency in which the Company may, from time
to time, conduct business; (p) year-over-year changes in the
Consumer Price Index or the UK Retail Price Index and the effect of
those changes on the rent escalators contained in the Company’s
leases and the Company’s earnings; (q) the Company’s ability and
the ability of its tenants, operators, borrowers and managers to
obtain and maintain adequate property, liability and other
insurance from reputable, financially stable providers; (r) the
impact of increased operating costs and uninsured professional
liability claims on the Company’s liquidity, financial condition
and results of operations or that of the Company’s tenants,
operators, borrowers and managers, and the ability of the Company
and the Company’s tenants, operators, borrowers and managers to
accurately estimate the magnitude of those claims; (s) risks
associated with the Company’s MOB portfolio and operations,
including the Company’s ability to successfully design, develop and
manage MOBs and to retain key personnel; (t) the ability of the
hospitals on or near whose campuses the Company’s MOBs are located
and their affiliated health systems to remain competitive and
financially viable and to attract physicians and physician groups;
(u) risks associated with the Company’s investments in joint
ventures and unconsolidated entities, including its lack of sole
decision-making authority and its reliance on its joint venture
partners’ financial condition; (v) the impact of market or issuer
events on the liquidity or value of the Company’s investments in
marketable securities; (w) consolidation activity in the seniors
housing and healthcare industries resulting in a change of control
of, or a competitor’s investment in, one or more of the Company’s
tenants, operators, borrowers or managers or significant changes in
the senior management of the Company’s tenants, operators,
borrowers or managers; (x) the impact of litigation or any
financial, accounting, legal or regulatory issues that may affect
the Company or its tenants, operators, borrowers or managers; and
(y) changes in accounting principles, or their application or
interpretation, and the Company’s ability to make estimates and the
assumptions underlying the estimates, which could have an effect on
the Company’s earnings.
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