Organization

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization

ORGANIZATION

Description of Business—CareTrust REIT, Inc.’s (“CareTrust REIT” or the “Company”) primary business consists of acquiring, financing, developing and owning real property to be leased to third-party tenants in the healthcare sector. As of March 31, 2022, the Company owned and leased to independent operators, 228 skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”), multi-service campuses, assisted living facilities (“ALFs”) and independent living facilities (“ILFs”) consisting of 23,834 operational beds and units located in 29 states with the highest concentration of properties by rental income located in California, Texas, Louisiana, Idaho and Arizona. As of March 31, 2022, the Company also had other real estate investments consisting of one mezzanine loan receivable with a carrying value of $15.2 million.

COVID-19—The COVID-19 pandemic has had and may continue to have an adverse impact on the economy generally and the Company’s business, results of operations and financial condition. The duration and extent of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the Company’s operational and financial performance, and the operational and financial performance of the Company’s tenants, will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted at this time, including the rate of public acceptance and usage of vaccines and the effectiveness of vaccines in limiting the spread of COVID-19 and its variants, resurgences of COVID-19 and, in particular, new and more contagious and/or vaccine resistant variants, actions taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 and how quickly and to what extent normal economic and operating conditions can resume. The adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business, results of operations and financial condition could be material.