Desk · Post-acute and long-term care
Post-acute and senior living leadership, before the search starts.
Private equity, consolidation and occupancy pressure keep post-acute leadership moving. This desk shows your partners which corporate, regional and community seats are about to open, and who will make the hire.
Who we cover
Skilled nursing, inpatient rehabilitation and long-term acute care, assisted living and memory care, Life Plan Communities, hospice, home health, personal and home care, home infusion and residential behavioral health. Multi-site operators, nonprofit senior living organizations, PE-backed platforms and health systems' post-acute divisions.
The seats
CEO and president, COO, CFO, chief clinical officer, corporate chief nursing officer, chief medical officer, chief growth officer and chief compliance officer; regional VPs and directors of operations, VP clinical services, VP reimbursement, executive directors of Life Plan Communities and large facilities, and board trustees.
What opens them
Who usually decides
The board chair at a nonprofit operator or Life Plan Community. The sponsor's operating partner at a PE-backed operator. The founder or owner at a family-owned operator. The COO for regional operations seats.
Certificate of need filings, state by state: CON state directory
- A leader leaves, retires or hands over to an interim.
- A PE firm buys a platform, or a platform buys an add-on. Sponsors usually strengthen finance and operations leadership in the first year.
- Operators merge, affiliate or change hands.
- A new community or facility is approved, financed or breaks ground. Its executive director comes first.
- Financial pressure. A downgrade, low occupancy, a covenant breach or a missed bond payment.
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FAQ
What happens to leadership after a PE firm buys a senior living or home health operator?
Sponsors usually strengthen the platform's leadership in the first year, most often in finance and operations. Add-ons usually fold into the platform's existing team, which itself grows as the platform does.
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