NorthStar Healthcare Income, Inc.
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2021)
Reporting Period: 2021
Environmental Metrics
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted business, results of operations, cash flows, and financial condition.
- Decreases in operators’ revenues or increases in their expenses negatively affected financial results.
- Defaults under borrowings due to operator failures to pay rent or satisfy performance thresholds.
- Increased competition affecting occupancy rates, operating margins, and profitability.
- Risks associated with capital expenditures, including cost overruns and potential declines in property value.
- Potential actions by joint venture partners that could decrease investment value and lower overall return.
- Operational risks at certain healthcare properties affecting revenue and operations.
- Increases in interest rates reducing profitability and impacting ability to refinance debt, sell assets, or engage in investment activity.
Mitigation Strategies
- Sale of Watermark Fountains net lease and operating portfolios for $580.0 million.
- Repayment of mezzanine loan in full.
- Repayment of borrowings under revolving line of credit.
- Sales of Kansas City and Smyrna properties.
- Extension of maturity date and principal repayment of a mortgage note.
- Refinancing of an existing note payable.
- Active portfolio management to enhance performance of existing investments.
- Strategic capital expenditures to maintain market position and enhance asset value.
- Pursuit of dispositions and asset repositioning to maximize value.
- Use of interest rate caps to manage exposure to interest rate volatility.
- Rigorous credit evaluation of healthcare operators prior to acquiring properties.
- Implementation of credit enhancement mechanisms into leases.