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With 2009 well underway many business sectors continue to go through the stress of the monetary downward spiral including the mortgage catastrophe and recent credit recession. But this years seventy Largest Providers listan twelve-monthly Assisted Living Executive exclusivesuggests that assisted living providers so far haven’t considered as heavy a strike.

While growth has slowed down from the past few years more than 1 / 2 of providers surveyed by Assisted Living Executive still report increases in accredited assisted living resident capacity as of January you even if its only due to adding one to three new properties for their portfolios.

Modest Increases and Losses

During 08 no assisted living companies merged and fullcompany purchases were rare. The only company to grow by acquiring sizable opponents was Five S tar Senior Living formerly Elegant Quality Attention which bought New Periods Assisted Living Communities No more. 49 on the 08 list and Somerford Corp. The moves helped increase Five Star Senior Living from No. 8 to No. 6 and increased its assisted living capacity by more than forty-five percent. However despite a year featuring no big deals the 2009 list shows some reshuffling scheduled to small acquisitions and building. Perhaps not remarkably the biggest gains stay with the biggest players and are in hard numbers rather than major rank changes.

Sunrise Elderly Living continues to top the list with an approximate assisted living person capacity of 32560 devices. Actual numbers should be somewhat higher due to construction last year but weren't available at press time. Emeritus Senior Living and Brookdale Senior Living maintained the No. 2 and No. 3 locations but also continued to grow by 8 percent and 20 percent correspondingly. Assisted living resident capacity increased by 20 percent at Atria Senior Living Group No. 5.

In conditions of percentage development Senior Care Inc. increased its assisted living capacity by practically 44 percent an increase that relocated the Louisville Kentuckybased service provider from Number 17 in 2008 to No. eleven this year. Senior Companies of America Number 30 grew 27 percent and moved up seven places. Affordable assisted living service provider BMA Management only relocated up three spots to No. 24 but also upped its capacity by 28 percent due to new construction. Mt. Western world Retirement Corp. became known as Bonaventure Senior Living Number 25 and brought up its capacity by twenty-two percent.

In contrast the most significant rankchanging action was in the bottom 50 percent the list and do not reflect high genuine capacity numbers since 62 percent of providers on the list have below 2000 assisted living residents. The biggest mover was Senior Management Advisors previously Adult Care Group which jumped from No. 67 to No. 51 by gaining 298 new made it simpler for living residents and a 42 percent gain in capacity. Bell Senior Living jumped 10 places from Number 46 to Simply no. 36 thanks to twenty-eight percent capacity growth or 309 new assisted living units. Erickson Retirement Areas also raised its position by nine to Simply no. 50 adding 196 models or 24 percent. Brightview Senior Living/The Shelter Group went from Number 75 to No. 62 with just 149 new devices and a 22 percent capacity increase.