COVID-19 Pandemic

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Unusual or Infrequent Items, or Both [Abstract]

COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted the senior living industry and the Company's business beginning in March 2020. The health and wellbeing of the Company's residents and associates has been and continues to be its highest priority. As of January 31, 2022, substantially all of the Company’s communities were open for new resident move-ins. The Company may revert to more restrictive measures at its communities, including restrictions on visitors and move-ins, if the pandemic worsens, as a result of infections at a community, as necessary to comply with regulatory requirements, or at the direction of authorities having jurisdiction.

Pandemic-Related Expenses. In the aggregate, for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company has incurred $173.2 million of facility operating expense for incremental direct costs to respond to the pandemic, including $47.7 million and $125.5 million, for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The direct costs include those for: acquisition of additional personal protective equipment ("PPE"), medical equipment, and cleaning and disposable food service supplies; enhanced cleaning and environmental sanitation; increased employee-related costs, including labor, workers compensation, and health plan expense; and COVID-19 testing of residents and associates where not otherwise covered by government payor or third-party insurance sources. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded $23.0 million and $105.6 million, respectively, of non-cash impairment charges in its operating results for its operating lease right-of-use assets and property, plant, and equipment and leasehold intangibles, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lower than expected operating performance at certain communities.

Financial Relief. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020 ("CARES Act"), signed into law on March 27, 2020, and Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, signed into law on April 24, 2020, provide liquidity and financial relief to certain businesses, among other things. Certain impacts of such programs are provided below.

•During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company accepted $0.8 million and $109.8 million, respectively, of cash from grants from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund ("Provider Relief Fund") administered by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), under which grants have been made available to eligible healthcare providers for healthcare related expenses or lost revenues attributable to COVID-19. During the three months ended December 31, 2021, the Company applied for the Phase 4 general distribution from the Provider Relief Fund. There can be no assurance that the Company will qualify for, or receive, such future grants in the amount it expects, that additional restrictions on the permissible uses or terms and conditions of the grants will not be imposed by HHS, or that future funding programs will be made available for which it qualifies.

•During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company received $87.5 million under the Accelerated and Advance Payment Program administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS"), $75.2 million of which related to its former Health Care Services segment and $12.3 million of which related to its CCRCs segment. Recoupment of advanced payments began one year after payments were issued at a rate of 25% of Medicare payments for the first eleven months following the anniversary of issuance and at a rate of 50% of Medicare payments for the next six months. Any outstanding balance of advanced payments will be due following such recoupment period. During the year ended December 31, 2021, $20.8 million of the advanced payments were recouped. Pursuant to the sale of 80% of the Company's equity in its Health Care Services segment (as described in Note 4), $63.6 million of such obligations related to its former Health Care Services segment were retained by the unconsolidated HCS Venture. As of December 31, 2021, the outstanding balance of advanced payments related to the CCRCs segment was $3.1 million.

•During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company deferred payment of $72.7 million of the employer portion of social security payroll taxes incurred from March 27, 2020 through December 31, 2020 pursuant to the CARES Act. Pursuant to the sale of 80% of the Company's equity in its Health Care Services segment, $9.6 million of such obligations related to its former Health Care Services segment were retained by the unconsolidated HCS Venture. In December 2021,

the Company paid $31.6 million of its retained deferred amount and the remaining deferred amount of $31.6 million is due December 31, 2022.

•The Company was eligible to claim the employee retention credit for certain of its associates under the CARES Act. The credit for 2020 was available to employers that fully or partially suspended operations during any calendar quarter in 2020 due to orders from an appropriate governmental authority limiting commerce, travel, or group meetings due to COVID-19, and was equal to 50% of qualified wages paid after March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2020 to qualified employees, with a maximum credit of $5,000 per employee. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company recognized $9.9 million of employee retention credits on wages paid from March 12, 2020 to December 31, 2020 within other operating income, for which the Company has received $3.4 million in cash as of December 31, 2021. The Company recognized a receivable for the remaining $6.5 million within prepaid expenses and other current assets, net on the consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2021. The credit was modified and extended by subsequent legislation for wages paid from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021, and the Company is assessing its eligibility to claim such credit. There can be no assurance that the Company will qualify for, or receive, credits in the amount or on the timing it expects.

In addition to the grants described above, during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company received and recognized $1.7 million and $5.9 million, respectively, of other operating income from grants from other government sources.

The Company cannot predict with reasonable certainty the impacts that COVID-19 ultimately will have on its business, results of operations, cash flow, and liquidity, and its response efforts may continue to delay or negatively impact its strategic initiatives, including plans for future growth. The ultimate impacts of COVID-19 will depend on many factors, some of which cannot be foreseen, including the duration, severity, and breadth of the pandemic and any resurgence or variants of the disease; the impact of COVID-19 on the nation’s economy and debt and equity markets and the local economies in the Company's markets; the development, availability, utilization, and efficacy of COVID-19 testing, therapeutic agents, and vaccines and the prioritization of such resources among businesses and demographic groups; government financial and regulatory relief efforts that may become available to business and individuals, including the Company's ability to qualify for and satisfy the terms and conditions of financial relief; perceptions regarding the safety of senior living communities during and after the pandemic; changes in demand for senior living communities and the Company's ability to adapt its sales and marketing efforts to meet that demand; the impact of COVID-19 on the Company's residents’ and their families’ ability to afford its resident fees, including due to changes in unemployment rates, consumer confidence, housing markets, and equity markets caused by COVID-19; changes in the acuity levels of the Company's new residents; the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on seniors generally and those residing in the Company's communities; the duration and costs of the Company's response efforts, including increased equipment, supplies, labor, litigation, testing, vaccination clinic, health plan, and other expenses; potentially greater use of contract labor and overtime due to COVID-19 and general labor market conditions; the impact of COVID-19 on the Company's ability to complete financings and refinancings of various assets, or other transactions or to generate sufficient cash flow to cover required debt, interest, and lease payments and to satisfy financial and other covenants in its debt and lease documents; increased regulatory requirements, including the costs of unfunded, mandatory testing of residents and associates and provision of test kits to the Company's health plan participants; increased enforcement actions resulting from COVID-19; government action that may limit the Company's collection or discharge efforts for delinquent accounts; and the frequency and magnitude of legal actions and liability claims that may arise due to COVID-19 or the Company's response efforts.