Number Of Assisted Living Beds In A Facility Real Estate Acquisition

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Number Of Skilled Nursing Beds In A Facility Real Estate Acquisition

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Operating Leases, Anticipated Initial Annual Lease Revenues

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The number of units in a real estate property owned as of the balance sheet date.

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The cash outflow from the acquisition of a piece of land and anything permanently fixed to it, including buildings, structures on it and so forth, and payments to develop real estate assets by adding improvements on or to a parcel of land. Such improvements may include drainage, utilities, subdividing, access, buildings, and any combination of these elements. Including real estate intended to generate income for the owner; excluding real estate acquired for use by the owner.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 13
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66902209&loc=d3e3213-108585

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Detail information of subsequent event by type. User is expected to use existing line items from elsewhere in the taxonomy as the primary line items for this disclosure, which is further associated with dimension and member elements pertaining to a subsequent event.

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Subsequent Events - Additional Information (Detail) $ in Millions		1 Months Ended
	May. 11, 2016 USD ($) unit bed	Apr. 30, 2016 USD ($) bed	Feb. 29, 2016 bed
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Number of skilled nursing beds \| bed			518
Subsequent Events [Member] \| Victory Park Nursing Home [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Number of skilled nursing beds \| bed		55
Subsequent Events [Member] \| Victoria Retirement Community [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Number of skilled nursing beds \| bed		90
Number of assisted living beds \| bed		69
Subsequent Events [Member] \| Victory Park Nursing Home and Victoria Retirement Community [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Acquisition consideration		$ 15.2
Anticipated initial annual lease revenues		$ 1.4
Subsequent Events [Member] \| Shaw Mountain at Cascadia [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Number of skilled nursing beds \| bed	98
Acquisition consideration	$ 8.9
Anticipated initial annual lease revenues	0.9
Subsequent Events [Member] \| English Meadows Elks' Home [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Acquisition consideration	10.0
Anticipated initial annual lease revenues	$ 0.8
Number of units available in living facilities \| unit	175
Subsequent Events [Member] \| Croatan Village [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Number of units available in living facilities \| unit	46
Subsequent Events [Member] \| Countryside Village [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Number of units available in living facilities \| unit	21
Subsequent Events [Member] \| Croatan Village and Countryside Village [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Acquisition consideration	$ 11.8
Anticipated initial annual lease revenues	$ 1.0