-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, BNMvverGiPVrBB6bsBPdnNr2i+lT0lX1u7Sxm9B4kwVcdrH7elvi7BAjZeD/pfPR dzNu9lI4IGTMZqoe2KXE4g== 0000908737-07-000114.txt : 20070302 0000908737-07-000114.hdr.sgml : 20070302 20070302142722 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000908737-07-000114 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070227 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers FILED AS OF DATE: 20070302 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070302 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SENIOR HOUSING PROPERTIES TRUST CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001075415 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS [6798] IRS NUMBER: 043445278 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-15319 FILM NUMBER: 07667119 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 400 CENTRE STREET CITY: NEWTON STATE: MA ZIP: 02458 BUSINESS PHONE: 6173323990 8-K 1 snh-8k.htm SNH 8K SNH 8K

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 27, 2007

SENIOR HOUSING PROPERTIES TRUST

Maryland
001-15319
04-3445278
(State of organization)
(Commission file number)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
 
 
400 Centre Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02458

 
617-796-8350
 
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 5.02
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Senior Housing Properties Trust, or the Company, has announced that John R. Hoadley, the Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, submitted his resignation from the Company, effective March 15, 2007, and that Richard A. Doyle, Jr. has been elected by the Company’s board of trustees as Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective March 15, 2007.

Mr. Doyle, age 38, has been employed in senior finance and accounting positions by Reit Management & Research LLC, or RMR, and its affiliates since 2005. Prior to that, he was employed by Sun Life Financial in positions involving finance and accounting for 10 years. Mr. Doyle also has an MBA and is a certified public accountant.

The Company does not have any employees. Services which otherwise would be provided by employees are provided by RMR. Except with respect to incentive share awards, the Company has not paid and has no current plans to pay compensation to its executive officers, including Mr. Doyle.

Mr. Hoadley is resigning to assume the positions of Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at TravelCenters of America LLC, or TA. Both the Company and TA have contractual management agreements with RMR. For more information with respect to the Company’s relationships with RMR, please see the information set forth under “Related Person Transactions” in Item 7 of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.

In connection with Mr. Doyle’s election, the Company expects to enter into its standard indemnification agreement with Mr. Doyle. The indemnification agreement will be identical in all material respects to the Company’s previously filed Representative Indemnification Agreement, dated March 10, 2004.



SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
SENIOR HOUSING PROPERTIES TRUST
 
By: /s/ David J. Hegarty
   
David J. Hegarty
President and Chief Operating Officer


Date: March 2, 2007
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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