Ventas Announces Three Proven High Performing Operators to Manage 26 Independent Living Communities in Attractive Markets to Drive Occupancy and Performance

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Ventas expands relationships with three senior housing operators to manage 26 independent living communities in Texas, Florida, and California.

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• Ventas is increasing occupancy and performance in these communities by expanding existing relationships with proven operators.
• The managers have delivered strong results in previous transitions with Ventas, utilizing data analytics and insights.

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Expansion of Successful Relationships with Operators Consistent with Ventas’s Right Market, Right Asset, Right Operator^TM Strategy

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In conjunction with previously scheduled investor meetings, Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR) (“Ventas” or the “Company”) today identified three proven senior housing operators who will take over management of 26 high-quality independent living communities owned by the Company (the “Communities”) and located in Texas, Florida and California. Ventas is expanding its successful existing relationships with the three managers (the “Managers”) to increase occupancy and performance in these Communities. The Communities are located in attractive markets characterized by favorable supply and demand trends.

Each of the Managers has delivered strong results in previously executed senior housing transitions with Ventas, utilizing a combination of strong local market focus, customized sales and operational execution strategies and leverage of Ventas’s proprietary Ventas OI^TM data analytics and insights platform.

The Managers are:

Manager	Region	Number of Assets
Sodalis Senior Living	Texas	13 Communities
Priority Life Care	Florida	8 Communities
Discovery Senior Living	California	5 Communities

The Company expects the Managers to begin operating the majority of the Communities on or around September 1, 2023, with the balance expected to transition early in the fourth quarter, subject to final documentation and other customary conditions.

The Communities will be operated by the Managers under aligned management contracts. The transition of these communities, which currently operate under management agreements with Holiday by Atria, was previously announced by Ventas. Atria has agreed to facilitate an orderly transition to the Managers, which is currently underway.

These actions are consistent with the Company’s successful Ventas OI^TM active asset management strategy, focused on the Right Market, Right Asset, Right Operator^TM. Since 2020, Ventas has leveraged its Ventas OI^TM playbook to successfully transition more than 150 communities to new managers, driving outsized financial results.

About Ventas

Ventas Inc., an S&P 500 company, operates at the intersection of two large and dynamic industries – healthcare and real estate. Fueled by powerful demographic demand from growth in the aging population, Ventas owns or has investments in a highly diversified portfolio of approximately 1,400 properties in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Ventas uses the power of its capital to unlock the value of senior housing communities, outpatient medical buildings, research centers, hospitals and other healthcare facilities. A globally-recognized real estate investment trust, Ventas follows a successful long-term strategy, proven over more than 25 years, built on diversification of property types, capital sources and industry leading partners, financial strength and flexibility, consistent and reliable growth and industry leading ESG achievements, managed by a collaborative and experienced team dedicated to its stakeholders.

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Certain factors that could affect our future results and our ability to achieve our stated goals include, but are not limited to: (a) the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other viruses and infections, such as flu and respiratory syncytial virus, and their extended consequences, including of any variants, on our revenue, level of profitability, liquidity and overall risk exposure and the implementation and impact of regulations related to the CARES Act and other stimulus legislation and any future COVID-19 relief measures, including the risk that some or all of the CARES Act or other COVID-19 relief payments we or our tenants, managers or borrowers received may be subject to recoupment; (b) our ability to achieve the anticipated benefits and synergies from, and effectively integrate, our completed or anticipated acquisitions and investments, including our ownership of the properties that previously secured the Santerre Mezzanine Loan; (c) our exposure and the exposure of our tenants, managers and borrowers to complex healthcare and other regulation and the challenges and expense associated with complying with such regulation; (d) the potential for significant general and commercial claims, legal actions, regulatory proceedings or enforcement actions that could subject us or our tenants, managers or borrowers to increased operating costs, uninsured liabilities fines or significant operational limitations, including the loss or suspension of or moratoriums on accreditations, licenses or certificates of need, suspension of new admissions, suspension, decertification or exclusion from federal, state or foreign healthcare programs or facility or community closure; (e) the impact of market and general economic conditions on us and our tenants, managers and borrowers, including economic and financial market events, such as bank failures and other events affecting financial institutions, market volatility, increases in inflation, changes in interest rates and exchange rates, tightening of lending standards and reduced availability of credit or capital, supply chain pressures, rising labor costs and historically low unemployment, events that affect consumer confidence, our occupancy rates and resident fee revenues, and the actual and perceived state of the real estate markets, labor markets and public and private capital markets; (f) our reliance and the reliance of our tenants, managers and borrowers on the financial, credit and capital markets and the risk that those markets may be disrupted or become constrained, including as a result of bank failures or concerns or rumors about such events, tightening of lending standards and reduced availability of credit or capital; (g) our ability, and the ability of our tenants, managers and borrowers, to navigate the trends impacting our or their businesses and the industries in which we or they operate; (h) the risk of bankruptcy, inability to obtain benefits from governmental programs, insolvency or financial deterioration of our tenants, managers, borrowers and other obligors which may, among other things, have an adverse impact on the ability of such parties to pay obligations due to us or our financial results and financial condition; (i) the risk that the borrowers under our loans or other investments default or that, to the extent we are able to foreclose or otherwise acquire the collateral securing our loans or other investments, we will be required to incur additional expense or indebtedness in connection therewith, that the assets will underperform expectations or that we may not be able to subsequently dispose of all or part of such assets on favorable terms; (j) the recognition of reserves, allowances, credit losses or impairment charges are inherently uncertain, may increase or decrease in the future and may not represent or reflect the ultimate value of, or loss that we ultimately realize with respect to, the relevant assets, which could have an adverse impact on our results of operations and financial condition; (k) the non-renewal of any leases or management agreement or defaults by tenants or managers thereunder and the risk of our inability to replace those tenants or managers on favorable terms, if at all; (l) our ability to identify and consummate future investments in or dispositions of healthcare assets and effectively manage our portfolio opportunities and our investments in co-investment vehicles, joint ventures and minority interests, including our ability to dispose of such assets on favorable terms as a result of rights of first offer or rights of first refusal in favor of third parties; (m) risks related to development, redevelopment and construction projects, including costs associated with inflation, rising interest rates, labor conditions and supply chain pressures; (n) our ability to attract and retain talented employees; (o) the limitations and significant requirements imposed upon our business as a result of our status as a REIT and the adverse consequences (including the possible loss of our status as a REIT) that would result if we are not able to comply with such requirements; (p) the risk of changes in healthcare law or regulation or in tax laws, guidance and interpretations, particularly as applied to REITs, that could adversely affect us or our tenants, managers or borrowers; (q) increases in our borrowing costs as a result of becoming more leveraged, including in connection with acquisitions or other investment activity and rising interest rates; (r) our reliance on third parties to operate a majority of our assets and our limited control and influence over such operations and results; (s) our dependency on a limited number of tenants and managers for a significant portion of our revenues and operating income; (t) the availability, adequacy and pricing of insurance coverage provided by our policies and policies maintained by our tenants, managers or other counterparties; (u) the occurrence of cyber incidents that could disrupt our operations, result in the loss of confidential information or damage our business relationships and reputation; (v) the impact of merger, acquisition and investment activity in the healthcare industry or otherwise affecting our tenants, managers or borrowers; (w) disruptions to the management and operations of our business and the uncertainties caused by activist investors; (x) the risk of catastrophic or extreme weather and other natural events and the physical effects of climate change; (y) the impact of purchase accounting adjustments, impairments, write downs and other non-cash charges related to our equitization of the Santerre Mezzanine Loan; (z) the risk of potential dilution resulting from future sales or issuances of our equity securities; and (aa) the other factors set forth in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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BJ Grant

(877) 4-VENTAS

Source: Ventas, Inc.