Senior Housing News November 7, 2025
The new top leader of Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) is taking the company in a “far more offensive” direction while consolidating its regional leadership structure and further tilting toward ownership of the communities it manages.
Nick Stengle, who ascended to the CEO role of Brookdale in October, said that the Brentwood, Tennessee-based senior living provider would remain “first and foremost” an operating company “built upon a real estate foundation” under his leadership.
Brookdale in the fourth quarter has clustered operations under six regional vice presidents, with each leader overseeing approximately 100 communities. In effect, that makes Brookdale “six operating companies of roughly 100 communities each,” Stengle said.
In Stengle’s view, this will allow communities to more nimbly respond...
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