BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Feb. 2, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Diversicare Healthcare Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:DVCR), a premier provider of long-term care services, today announced the Company has acquired a 94-bed skilled nursing center in Glasgow, Kentucky, for a purchase price of $7 million. Additionally, in a separate and unrelated transaction, the Company assumed operations through a lease agreement of an 85-bed skilled nursing center in Hutchinson, Kansas. The center in Kansas has an initial lease term of 10 years and includes an option to purchase exercisable after the first year of the lease. Both acquisitions were effective February 1, 2015, at which time Diversicare assumed operations at both locations increasing the number of centers operated by the Company to 54. These facilities are expected to contribute in excess of $9 million in annual revenues.
Commenting on the acquisition, Kelly Gill, the Company's Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We are excited to continue the momentum built in 2014 by adding our first two facilities of 2015. The expansion within our footprint clearly demonstrates our confidence in the scalability of our operating platform that we have worked so diligently to develop over the last several years and continues to drive operating leverage. The purchase of the Glasgow facility and the purchase option on the Hutchinson facility further demonstrates our capabilities to grow using a myriad of deal structures and flexible financing arrangements."
About Diversicare Healthcare Services, Inc.
As of February 1, 2015, Diversicare provides long-term care services to patients in 54 skilled nursing and senior housing centers containing 6,500 licensed beds. For additional information about the Company, visit Diversicare's web site: www.DVCR.com.
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