Commitments and Contingencies

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Commitments and Contingencies

Commitments and Contingencies

(12) Commitments and Contingencies

Legal Proceedings

From time to time, the Company is a party to legal proceedings, lawsuits and other claims that arise in the ordinary course of the Company’s business. The Company is not aware of any legal proceedings or claims that it believes may have, individually or taken together, a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, prospects, financial condition or results of operations. The Company’s policy is to accrue legal expenses as they are incurred.

Concentration of Credit Risk

Concentrations of credit risks arise when a number of operators, tenants or obligors related to the Company’s investments are engaged in similar business activities, or activities in the same geographic region, or have similar economic features that would cause their ability to meet contractual obligations, including those to the Company, to be similarly affected by changes in economic conditions. The Company regularly monitors various segments of its portfolio to assess potential concentrations of risks. Management believes the current portfolio is reasonably diversified across healthcare related real estate and does not contain any other significant concentration of credit risks, except as disclosed herein. The Company does not have significant foreign operations.

The following table provides information regarding the Company’s concentration with respect to certain operators; the information provided is presented for the gross assets and revenues that are associated with certain operators as percentages of the respective segment’s and total Company’s gross assets and revenues:

Segment Concentrations:

	Percentage of Senior Housing Gross Assets				Percentage of Senior Housing Revenues				Percentage of Senior Housing Revenues
	June 30,		December 31,		Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
Senior Housing Operators	2012		2011		2012		2011		2012		2011
HCR ManorCare(1)	14	%	14	%	12	%	12	%	12	%	7	%
Brookdale(2)	15		16		16		14		16		14
Emeritus	18		18		20		24		20		25
Sunrise(3)	22		22		15		19		15		22

	Percentage of Post-Acute/ Skilled Nursing Gross Assets				Percentage of Post-Acute/ Skilled Nursing Revenues				Percentage of Post-Acute/ Skilled Nursing Revenues
	June 30,		December 31,		Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
Post-Acute/Skilled Nursing Operators	2012		2011		2012		2011		2012		2011
HCR ManorCare(1)	90	%	94	%	93	%	76	%	93	%	73	%

Total Company Concentrations:

	Percentage of Total Company Gross Assets				Percentage of Total Company Revenues				Percentage of Total Company Revenues
	June 30,		December 31,		Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
Operators	2012		2011		2012		2011		2012		2011
HCR ManorCare(1)	35	%	35	%	31	%	32	%	31	%	23	%
Brookdale(2)	5		5		5		4		5		4
Emeritus	6		6		7		6		7		8
Sunrise(3)	7		7		5		5		5		6

(1)On April 7, 2011, the Company completed the acquisition of HCR ManorCare’s real estate assets, which included the settlement of the Company’s HCR ManorCare debt investments, see Notes 3 and 7 for additional information.

(2)As of June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, Brookdale percentages exclude $685.5 and $682.7 million, respectively, of senior housing assets related to 21 senior housing facilities that Brookdale operates on the Company’s behalf under a RIDEA structure. Assuming that these assets were attributable to Brookdale, the percentage of segment and total assets for Brookdale would be 27% and 9% respectively, as of both June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, Brookdale percentages exclude $35.6 million and $70.7 million, respectively, of senior housing revenues related to these facilities. Assuming that these revenues were attributable to Brookdale, the percentage of segment and total revenues for Brookdale would be 39% and 13% respectively, for both the three months and six months ended June 30, 2012.

(3)Certain of the Company’s properties are leased to tenants who have entered into management contracts with Sunrise to operate the respective property on their behalf. The Company’s concentration of gross assets includes properties directly leased to Sunrise and properties that are managed by Sunrise on behalf of third party tenants.

On September 1, 2011, the Company completed a strategic venture with Brookdale that includes the operation of 37 HCP-owned senior living communities previously leased to or operated by Horizon Bay Retirement Living (“Horizon Bay”). As part of this transaction, Brookdale acquired Horizon Bay and: (i) assumed an existing triple-net lease for nine HCP communities; (ii) entered into a new triple-net lease related to four HCP communities; (iii) assumed Horizon Bay’s management of three HCP communities, one of which was developed by HCP; and (iv) entered into management contracts and a joint venture agreement for a 10% interest in the real estate and operations for 21 of the Company’s communities that are in a RIDEA structure. Concurrent with these transactions, the Company purchased $22.4 million of Brookdale’s common stock in June 2011 (see Note 10 for additional information regarding these marketable equity securities).

Under the provisions of RIDEA, a REIT may lease “qualified healthcare properties” on an arm’s length basis to a taxable REIT subsidiary if the property is operated on behalf of such subsidiary by a person who qualifies as an “eligible independent contractor.” The three months ended June 30, 2012 include $35.6 million and $22.7 million in revenues and operating expenses, respectively, and the six months ended June 30, 2012 include $70.7 million and $43.4 million in revenues and operating expenses, respectively, as a result of reflecting the facility-level results for the 21 RIDEA facilities operated by Brookdale beginning September 1, 2011.

To mitigate credit risk of leasing properties to certain senior housing and post-acute/skilled nursing operators, leases with operators are often combined into portfolios that contain cross-default terms, so that if a tenant of any of the properties in a portfolio defaults on its obligations under its lease, the Company may pursue its remedies under the lease with respect to any of the properties in the portfolio. Certain portfolios also contain terms whereby the net operating profits of the properties are combined for the purpose of securing the funding of rental payments due under each lease.

Credit Enhancement Guarantee

Certain of the Company’s senior housing facilities serve as collateral for $120 million of debt (maturing May 1, 2025) that is owed by a previous owner of the facilities. This indebtedness is guaranteed by the previous owner who has an investment grade credit rating. These senior housing facilities, which are classified as DFLs, had a carrying value of $372 million as of June 30, 2012.