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HCR ManorCare company history timeline

1986

To that end, eight nursing centers, four hotels, and an office building were sold in 1986, and the company began construction of six new nursing homes and nine additions to previously existing facilities.

1987

In 1987, Stewart Bainum Jr., became chairman and CEO, succeeding his father.

1988

In 1988 the company broadened the scope of its hotel offerings, hoping to induce new growth.

1990

In June 1990 Manor Care made an unsuccessful attempt to buy the Ramada and Howard Johnson hotel franchises.

1991

Although Manor Care's lodging division accounted for only 12 percent of its revenues in the fiscal year ended in May 1991, Choice contributed more than 20 percent of the company's profits, as the nursing home business continued to lag.

In 1991 the company sold 20 percent of its institutional pharmacy subsidiary in a public offering.

1992

In 1992, the company spun off Vitalink Pharmacy Services into a public company with a value of $236 million.

1994

Manor Care introduced the Arden Courts brand in 1994 by opening the first of the freestanding care centers in Potomac, Maryland.

1995

In 1995 the company expanded beyond long term care with the purchase of 64 percent of Minneapolis-based In Home Health, Inc.

In 1995, Manor Care acquired a 41 percent ownership in In Home Health, a provider of comprehensive home health care services.

1996

In 1996, the company spun off Choice Hotels, refocusing its business on health care.

1997

In 1997, Manor Care completed the spin-off of its lodging business and began a total focus on health care.

1999

The company concentrates its focus more strongly on skilled nursing and dementia assisted living and, in so doing, ends its assisted living development joint venture formed in 1999 with Alterra.

2000

In March 2000, Stewart W. Bainum Jr., and a management group made separate offers to buy the company, which the company's board rejected.

As Choice Chairman Robert C. Hazard, Jr., told Forbes, "Our goal is 1 million hotel rooms and 10,000 hotels worldwide by the year 2000."

2006

In 2006, HCR ManorCare had placed 565th on the Fortune 1,000 list.

2010

Then, in 2010, the firm sold its real estate to a real estate investment trust in California.

2011

In interviews, Carlyle officials emphasized just one reason for the bankruptcy, however: Medicare’s decision in October 2011 to cut what it pays nursing homes by 11 percent.

Uncharacteristic bad news came in 2011 as the firm announced that several hundred employees would be laid off nationwide because of cutbacks in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements.

2012

An HCR ManorCare expert reported in a recent court filing that by 2012 the net cash flows at the nursing homes in some months were “insufficient . . . to make the required rent payments.”

2016

“It was horrible — my mom would call us every day crying when she was in there,” said Debbie Bojo, whose mother was treated at ManorCare’s Pottsville facility in September 2016. “It was dirty — like a run-down motel.

Money troubles worsened mid-decade, with the firm losing $3.2 million in 2016 alone.

2017

In 2017, according to The Post’s tally, these violations were found at 8 percent of HCR ManorCare homes, and 14 percent of homes elsewhere, an advantage that company advocates stressed.

The average number of violations at HCR ManorCare and other for-profit homes rose about the same amount over the 2013 to 2017 period, according to his figures. For example, the company’s homes had 9.7 violations per home in 2017, while other for-profit nursing homes had 8 percent fewer, or 8.9, violations per home.

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