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| Coverage improved sequentially to 1.41x from 1.38x driven by a nice uptick at SLC, our largest tenant, on another solid quarter of entrance fee sales |
| While SHOP is still a relatively small piece of our overall business, we're excited by improving trends and continue to believe in the significant upside potential that can drive our organic growth profile |
| So we're seeing positive improvement on the length of stay in the portfolio |
| We had another good quarter, capping a strong finish to the year with fourth quarter results exceeding our expectations |
| The senior housing portfolio, or SHOP, also contributed to the better-than-expected quarterly results with NOI increasing 48% over the fourth quarter of 2022 and over 24% sequentially |
| Once we see occupancy, we'll see -- we would expect, anyway, NOI to follow, but that typically is a little lagged, which is also why I think you see NOI better in the fourth quarter than as occupancy increased throughout the year |
| The strategy here is to continue to show improvement in Bickford's NOI which, as they do, allows us through either a stepped-up rent or the collection of deferrals improve our NOI and FAD, right? What I can't tell you is what the split is going to end up being just yet |
| We're making good progress on the Bickford rent reset with an expected increase in cash rent this year |
| We believe our portfolio is in much better shape and positions NHI for strong organic growth in the foreseeable future |
| But now that it's done, the results are encouraging |
| We are definitely gratified to see our SHOP portfolio perk up |
| Our balance sheet continues to be a source of strength for us |
| Operating expenses increased just 2.2%, leading to a 580 basis point year-over-year margin improvement to 22.3% |
| The triple-net senior housing portfolio continues to benefit from improved industry fundamentals as EBITDARM coverage has now increased for seven consecutive periods with notable improvement at Bickford and our other need-driven operators |
| The midpoint of our FAD guidance represents 2.6% growth over 2023, with less noise from dispositions and rent concessions, as well as more experience with SHOP, we believe we have much better visibility this year compared to the last two |
| Our discretionary senior housing portfolio primarily includes our entrance fee portfolio, which has performed well above our expectations since the pandemic began, and that continues to be the case |
| Before turning the call over to Kevin, I'll conclude by saying that we accomplished a great deal in 2023, and we're now in a strong position as we return to growth in 2024 |
| Our multipronged organic growth opportunity is as strong as ever, be it SHOP deferral repayments, rent resets or elevated escalators due to higher inflation |
| The investment and lending environments are very favorable for well-capitalized, low levered capital providers like NHI, and the industry supply/demand balance seems finally to be tilting in our favor |
| In sum, NHI is poised to capitalize on opportunities in what we expect to be many years of exceptional growth |
| Reported coverage at 1.13x is the highest since the second quarter of 2020, and the eighth straight period of sequential improvement |
| This was their highest quarterly repayment, which reflects the portfolio's strong underlying operating results as repayments are tied to revenue thresholds |
| The Bickford occupancy trends have been excellent |
| As Eric noted, our fourth quarter results were very strong and largely mimicked our solid third quarter performance |
| Reviewing the need-driven operators, the positive coverage trends continued with EBITDARM at 1.31x, representing the seventh straight period of sequential growth |
| We're also positioned for external growth with our fortress-like balance sheet |
| So we're excited about that |
| Fourth quarter average occupancy improved 100 basis points sequentially from the third quarter to 85.2% |
| This occupancy improvement comes after a resident rent increase of 6% in November |
| Eric, obviously, great results in the SHOP portfolio |
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| For the year ended December 31, our FAD was $187.8 million, down 6.6% year-over-year |
| Sequentially, compared to the third quarter in 2023, FAD was down $825,000 |
| While we typically expect some seasonal weakness in the first quarter, January average occupancy increased 70 basis points from December to 85.7% |
| I would tell you, it's down a little bit from where we saw when Holiday operated the portfolio, but it's increased over the last few quarters |
| Discretionary coverage, excluding SLC, which largely reflects the performance of our other entrance fee communities, declined to 1.38x from 1.5x |
| And that has driven people to the conclusion that maybe a 10- or 15-year lease isn't the worst thing in the world and they should consider it |
| We've been impatient, as you know, and it took us a long time to get our CapEx program finished |
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