BUSINESS	9 Months Ended
BUSINESS	Sep. 30, 2020
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
BUSINESS	BUSINESS Overview Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. (“Sabra” or the “Company”) was incorporated on May 10, 2010 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Healthcare Group, Inc. (“Sun”) and commenced operations on November 15, 2010 following Sabra’s separation from Sun. Sabra elected to be treated as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) with the filing of its United States (“U.S.”) federal income tax return for the taxable year beginning January 1, 2011. Sabra believes that it has been organized and operated, and it intends to continue to operate, in a manner to qualify as a REIT. Sabra’s primary business consists of acquiring, financing and owning real estate property to be leased to third-party tenants in the healthcare sector. Sabra primarily generates revenues by leasing properties to tenants and operators throughout the U.S. and Canada. Sabra owns substantially all of its assets and properties and conducts its operations through Sabra Health Care Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), of which Sabra is the sole general partner and a wholly owned subsidiary of Sabra is currently the only limited partner, or by subsidiaries of the Operating Partnership. The Company’s investment portfolio is primarily comprised of skilled nursing/transitional care facilities, senior housing communities (“Senior Housing - Leased”) and specialty hospitals and other facilities, in each case leased to third-party operators; senior housing communities operated by third-party property managers pursuant to property management agreements (“Senior Housing - Managed”); investments in loans receivable; preferred equity investments; and an investment in an unconsolidated joint venture. COVID-19 In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and the United States declared a national emergency with respect to COVID-19. In the intervening months, COVID-19 has spread globally and led governments and other authorities around the world, including federal, state and local authorities in the United States, to impose measures intended to control its spread, including restrictions on freedom of movement and business operations such as travel bans, border closings, business closures, quarantines and shelter-in-place orders. Although some of these governmental restrictions have since been lifted or scaled back, a recent surge of COVID-19 infections has resulted in the re-imposition of certain restrictions and may lead to other restrictions being re-implemented in response to efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19. These measures may remain in place for a significant amount of time. The COVID-19 pandemic and measures to prevent its spread have negatively impacted and are expected to continue to negatively impact the Company and its operations in a number of ways, including but not limited to: •Decreased occupancy and increased operating costs for the Company’s tenants and borrowers, which has negatively impacted their operating results and may adversely impact their ability to make full and timely rental payments and debt service payments, respectively, to the Company. In some cases, the Company may have to restructure tenants’ long-term rent obligations and may not be able to do so on terms that are as favorable to the Company as those currently in place. Reduced or modified rental and debt service amounts could result in the determination that the full amounts of the Company’s investments are not recoverable, which could result in an impairment charge. To date, the impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s skilled nursing/transitional care facility operators has been partially mitigated by the assistance they have received or expect to receive from state and federal assistance programs, including through the CARES Act (as defined and further described below under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Skilled Nursing Facility Reimbursement Rates” in Part I, Item 2), although these benefits on an individual operator basis vary and may not provide enough relief to meet their rental obligations to the Company. Prior to September 1, 2020, few of these programs were available to the Company’s senior housing operators; as of September 1, 2020, eligible assisted living facility operators may apply for funding through the CARES Act, and the assistance received or expected to be received will partially mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s eligible assisted living facility operators. As of September 30, 2020, the Company’s tenants and borrowers have continued to pay expected cash rents and debt service obligations consistent with past practice. However, the longer the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the more likely that the Company’s tenants and borrowers will begin to default on these obligations. Such defaults could materially and adversely affect the Company’s results of operations and liquidity, in addition to resulting in potential impairment charges. •Decreased occupancy and increased operating costs within the Company’s Senior Housing - Managed portfolio and in the Company’s 49% equity interest in a joint venture with affiliates of Enlivant and TPG Real Estate, the real estate platform of TPG, that owns senior housing communities managed by Enlivant (the “Enlivant Joint Venture”), which have negatively impacted and are expected to continue to negatively impact the operating results of these investments. As noted above, as of September 1, 2020, eligible assisted living facility operators may apply for funding through the CARES Act, and the assistance received or expected to be received will partially mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s Senior Housing - Managed portfolio and the Enlivant Joint Venture. During each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recognized government grants under the CARES Act of $4.2 million. In addition, on October 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services announced $20 billion of new funding for assisted living facility operators that have already received funds and to those who were previously ineligible. Prolonged deterioration in the operating results for the Company’s investments in its Senior Housing - Managed portfolio and the Enlivant Joint Venture could result in the determination that the full amounts of the Company’s investments are not recoverable, which could result in an impairment charge. The Company’s financial results as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 reflect the results of the Company’s evaluation of the impact of COVID-19 on its business including, but not limited to, its evaluation of potential impairments of long-lived or other assets, measurement of credit losses on financial instruments, evaluation of any lease modifications, evaluation of lease accounting impact, estimates of fair value and the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.