» Extendicare Health Services recently completed a $37.7 million portfolio refinancing of six SNFs in the Midwest. Ziegler Financing Corporation closed the transaction. 

» Kindred Healthcare has sold 17 facilities to Vibra Healthcare LLC for $187 million. Kindred also has acquired home health and hospice businesses in two Texas markets, and will build a transitional center with skilled care in Phoenix.

» Louisville-based Signature HealthCARE LLC recently expanded its footprint in Tennessee. The company opened a $17 million, 119-bed post-acute center in Nashville and paid an undisclosed sum for a 44-bed skilled nursing unit in Memphis. 

» Nonprofits Cantata Adult Life Services, Chicagoland Methodist Senior Services and H.O.M.E. (Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly) have partnered to form PrimeLife Home Improvement. The new organization works with vetted contractors who do home improvement projects for seniors in the Chicago area.