<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<!--Generated by EDGARfilings PROfile 4.0.0.0 Copyright 1995 - 2015 Summit Financial Printing, LLC. All rights reserved.-->
<xbrl xmlns:xbrli="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance" xmlns:link="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/linkbase" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xbrldi="http://xbrl.org/2006/xbrldi" xmlns:iso4217="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217" xmlns:invest="http://xbrl.sec.gov/invest/2013-01-31" xmlns:us-gaap="http://fasb.org/us-gaap/2015-01-31" xmlns:dei="http://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2014-01-31" xmlns:utr="http://www.xbrl.org/2009/utr" xmlns:num="http://www.xbrl.org/dtr/type/numeric" xmlns:nonnum="http://www.xbrl.org/dtr/type/non-numeric" xmlns:country="http://xbrl.sec.gov/country/2013-01-31" xmlns:currency="http://xbrl.sec.gov/currency/2014-01-31" xmlns:naics="http://xbrl.sec.gov/naics/2011-01-31" xmlns:sic="http://xbrl.sec.gov/sic/2011-01-31" xmlns:stpr="http://xbrl.sec.gov/stpr/2011-01-31" xmlns:exch="http://xbrl.sec.gov/exch/2015-01-31" xmlns:bkd="http://brookdale.com/20160331" xmlns="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance">
  <link:schemaRef xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="bkd-20160331.xsd" />
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150630">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-06-30</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160506">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-05-06</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AwardTypeAxis">us-gaap:RestrictedStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AwardTypeAxis">us-gaap:RestrictedStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_TreasuryStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:TreasuryStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_ParentMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:ParentMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_RetainedEarningsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:RetainedEarningsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:CommonStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_NoncontrollingInterestMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:NoncontrollingInterestMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_NoncontrollingInterestMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:NoncontrollingInterestMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_TreasuryStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:TreasuryStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_ParentMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:ParentMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_RetainedEarningsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:RetainedEarningsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:CommonStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_TreasuryStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:TreasuryStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_RetainedEarningsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:RetainedEarningsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:CommonStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_NoncontrollingInterestMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:NoncontrollingInterestMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_ParentMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:ParentMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementEquityComponentsAxis">us-gaap:AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20141231">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2014-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150331">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis_CarryingReportedAmountFairValueDisclosureMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis">us-gaap:CarryingReportedAmountFairValueDisclosureMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis_EstimateOfFairValueFairValueDisclosureMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis">us-gaap:EstimateOfFairValueFairValueDisclosureMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis_EstimateOfFairValueFairValueDisclosureMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis">us-gaap:EstimateOfFairValueFairValueDisclosureMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis_CarryingReportedAmountFairValueDisclosureMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis">us-gaap:CarryingReportedAmountFairValueDisclosureMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis_RestatementAdjustmentMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis">us-gaap:RestatementAdjustmentMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_ConvertibleDebtSecuritiesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis">us-gaap:ConvertibleDebtSecuritiesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_RestrictedStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis">us-gaap:RestrictedStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_WarrantMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis">us-gaap:WarrantMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_WarrantMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis">us-gaap:WarrantMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_ConvertibleDebtSecuritiesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis">us-gaap:ConvertibleDebtSecuritiesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_RestrictedStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis">us-gaap:RestrictedStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_ConvertibleDebtSecuritiesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis">us-gaap:ConvertibleDebtSecuritiesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20151231_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_DisposalGroupHeldforsaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:BusinessAcquisitionAxis">us-gaap:DisposalGroupHeldforsaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-12-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150201to20150228_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_February2015AcquisitionOf15CommunitiesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:BusinessAcquisitionAxis">bkd:February2015AcquisitionOf15CommunitiesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-02-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-02-28</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_DisposalGroupHeldforsaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:BusinessAcquisitionAxis">us-gaap:DisposalGroupHeldforsaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_DisposalGroupHeldforsaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:BusinessAcquisitionAxis">us-gaap:DisposalGroupHeldforsaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember_RangeAxis_MaximumMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AwardTypeAxis">us-gaap:RestrictedStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:RangeAxis">us-gaap:MaximumMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember_RangeAxis_MinimumMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AwardTypeAxis">us-gaap:RestrictedStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:RangeAxis">us-gaap:MinimumMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:AwardTypeAxis">us-gaap:RestrictedStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:AssistedLivingMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:RetirementCentersMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:RetirementCentersMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:AssistedLivingMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_CommunityPurchaseOptionsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="bkd:IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis">bkd:CommunityPurchaseOptionsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_CommunityPurchaseOptionsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="bkd:IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis">bkd:CommunityPurchaseOptionsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_HealthCareLicensesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="bkd:IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis">bkd:HealthCareLicensesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_OtherIntangibleAssetsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="bkd:IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis">us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_OtherIntangibleAssetsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="bkd:IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis">us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_TradeNamesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="bkd:IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis">us-gaap:TradeNamesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_TradeNamesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="bkd:IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis">us-gaap:TradeNamesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_HealthCareLicensesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="bkd:IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis">bkd:HealthCareLicensesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_BuildingAndBuildingImprovementsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:BuildingAndBuildingImprovementsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_ConstructionInProgressMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:ConstructionInProgressMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_LeaseholdImprovementsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:LeaseholdImprovementsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_AssetsHeldUnderCapitalLeasesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:AssetsHeldUnderCapitalLeasesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_LandMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:LandMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_ResidentAndLeaseholdOperatingIntangiblesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">bkd:ResidentAndLeaseholdOperatingIntangiblesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_AssetsHeldUnderCapitalLeasesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:AssetsHeldUnderCapitalLeasesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_LandMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:LandMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_FurnitureAndFixturesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:FurnitureAndFixturesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_FurnitureAndFixturesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:FurnitureAndFixturesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_BuildingAndBuildingImprovementsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:BuildingAndBuildingImprovementsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_ResidentAndLeaseholdOperatingIntangiblesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">bkd:ResidentAndLeaseholdOperatingIntangiblesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_LeaseholdImprovementsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:LeaseholdImprovementsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_ConstructionInProgressMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis">us-gaap:ConstructionInProgressMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:MortgagesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:ConvertibleDebtMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConstructionLoansMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:ConstructionLoansMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:ConvertibleDebtMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_CapitalLeaseObligationsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_CapitalLeaseObligationsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_UnsecuredDebtMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:UnsecuredDebtMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConstructionLoansMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:ConstructionLoansMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_UnsecuredDebtMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:UnsecuredDebtMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:MortgagesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_CapitalLeaseObligationsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:ConvertibleDebtMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConstructionLoansMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:ConstructionLoansMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:MortgagesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_UnsecuredDebtMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LongtermDebtTypeAxis">us-gaap:UnsecuredDebtMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_SwinglineLineOfCreditMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityAxis">bkd:SwinglineLineOfCreditMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_TermLoanMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityAxis">bkd:TermLoanMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_RevolvingCreditFacilityMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityAxis">us-gaap:RevolvingCreditFacilityMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LetterOfCreditSublimitMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityAxis">bkd:LetterOfCreditSublimitMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LetterOfCreditMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityAxis">us-gaap:LetterOfCreditMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_OptionToIncreaseMaximumBorrowingCapacityMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityAxis">bkd:OptionToIncreaseMaximumBorrowingCapacityMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LineOfCreditMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityAxis">us-gaap:LineOfCreditMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LineOfCreditMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityAxis">us-gaap:LineOfCreditMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_ExtinguishmentOfDebtAxis_FirstMortgageLoanRefinancedInMarch2016Member">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:ExtinguishmentOfDebtAxis">bkd:FirstMortgageLoanRefinancedInMarch2016Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_ExtinguishmentOfDebtAxis_FirstMortgageLoanRefinancedInMarch2016Member">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:ExtinguishmentOfDebtAxis">bkd:FirstMortgageLoanRefinancedInMarch2016Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis">us-gaap:SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis">us-gaap:SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis">bkd:ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis">bkd:ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis">bkd:AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis">bkd:AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis">bkd:AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis">bkd:AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_IncomeTaxAuthorityAxis_InternalRevenueServiceIRSMember_RangeAxis_MinimumMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:RangeAxis">us-gaap:MinimumMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:IncomeTaxAuthorityAxis">us-gaap:InternalRevenueServiceIRSMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_IncomeTaxAuthorityAxis_InternalRevenueServiceIRSMember_RangeAxis_MaximumMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:RangeAxis">us-gaap:MaximumMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:IncomeTaxAuthorityAxis">us-gaap:InternalRevenueServiceIRSMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_VariableInterestEntitiesByClassificationOfEntityAxis_VariableInterestEntityNotPrimaryBeneficiaryRealEstateCompanyMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:VariableInterestEntitiesByClassificationOfEntityAxis">bkd:VariableInterestEntityNotPrimaryBeneficiaryRealEstateCompanyMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_VariableInterestEntitiesByClassificationOfEntityAxis_VariableInterestEntityNotPrimaryBeneficiaryOperatingCompanyMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:VariableInterestEntitiesByClassificationOfEntityAxis">bkd:VariableInterestEntityNotPrimaryBeneficiaryOperatingCompanyMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:RetirementCentersMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_ManagementServicesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:ManagementServicesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:AssistedLivingMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_CcrcsRentalMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:CcrcsRentalMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:RetirementCentersMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:AssistedLivingMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_ManagementServicesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:ManagementServicesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2015-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2015-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_CcrcsRentalMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:CcrcsRentalMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:startDate>2016-01-01</xbrli:startDate>
      <xbrli:endDate>2016-03-31</xbrli:endDate>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_ManagementServicesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:ManagementServicesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_ManagementServicesMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:ManagementServicesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_CcrcsRentalMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:CcrcsRentalMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2015-12-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:context id="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_CcrcsRentalMember">
    <xbrli:entity>
      <xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0001332349</xbrli:identifier>
      <xbrli:segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis">bkd:CcrcsRentalMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </xbrli:segment>
    </xbrli:entity>
    <xbrli:period>
      <xbrli:instant>2016-03-31</xbrli:instant>
    </xbrli:period>
  </xbrli:context>
  <xbrli:unit id="U001">
    <xbrli:measure>iso4217:USD</xbrli:measure>
  </xbrli:unit>
  <xbrli:unit id="U002">
    <xbrli:measure>xbrli:shares</xbrli:measure>
  </xbrli:unit>
  <xbrli:unit id="U003">
    <xbrli:divide>
      <xbrli:unitNumerator>
        <xbrli:measure>iso4217:USD</xbrli:measure>
      </xbrli:unitNumerator>
      <xbrli:unitDenominator>
        <xbrli:measure>xbrli:shares</xbrli:measure>
      </xbrli:unitDenominator>
    </xbrli:divide>
  </xbrli:unit>
  <xbrli:unit id="U004">
    <xbrli:measure>bkd:Community</xbrli:measure>
  </xbrli:unit>
  <xbrli:unit id="U005">
    <xbrli:measure>xbrli:pure</xbrli:measure>
  </xbrli:unit>
  <xbrli:unit id="U006">
    <xbrli:measure>bkd:Segment</xbrli:measure>
  </xbrli:unit>
  <!--Amendment Flag-->
  <dei:AmendmentFlag contextRef="c20160101to20160331">false</dei:AmendmentFlag>
  <!--Current Fiscal Year End Date-->
  <dei:CurrentFiscalYearEndDate contextRef="c20160101to20160331">--12-31</dei:CurrentFiscalYearEndDate>
  <!--Document Period End Date-->
  <dei:DocumentPeriodEndDate contextRef="c20160101to20160331">2016-03-31</dei:DocumentPeriodEndDate>
  <!--Entity Well-known Seasoned Issuer-->
  <dei:EntityWellKnownSeasonedIssuer contextRef="c20160101to20160331">Yes</dei:EntityWellKnownSeasonedIssuer>
  <!--Entity Voluntary Filers-->
  <dei:EntityVoluntaryFilers contextRef="c20160101to20160331">No</dei:EntityVoluntaryFilers>
  <!--Entity Current Reporting Status-->
  <dei:EntityCurrentReportingStatus contextRef="c20160101to20160331">Yes</dei:EntityCurrentReportingStatus>
  <!--Entity Filer Category-->
  <dei:EntityFilerCategory contextRef="c20160101to20160331">Large Accelerated Filer</dei:EntityFilerCategory>
  <!--Entity Public Float-->
  <dei:EntityPublicFloat contextRef="c20150630" unitRef="U001" decimals="-8">6500000000</dei:EntityPublicFloat>
  <!--Entity Registrant Name-->
  <dei:EntityRegistrantName contextRef="c20160101to20160331">Brookdale Senior Living Inc.</dei:EntityRegistrantName>
  <!--Entity Central Index Key-->
  <dei:EntityCentralIndexKey contextRef="c20160101to20160331">0001332349</dei:EntityCentralIndexKey>
  <!--Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding-->
  <dei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding contextRef="c20160506" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">185809480</dei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding>
  <!--Document Fiscal Year Focus-->
  <dei:DocumentFiscalYearFocus contextRef="c20160101to20160331">2016</dei:DocumentFiscalYearFocus>
  <!--Document Fiscal Period Focus-->
  <dei:DocumentFiscalPeriodFocus contextRef="c20160101to20160331">Q1</dei:DocumentFiscalPeriodFocus>
  <!--Document Type-->
  <dei:DocumentType contextRef="c20160101to20160331">10-Q</dei:DocumentType>
  <!--Accounts Payable, Trade, Current-->
  <us-gaap:AccountsPayableTradeCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">92089000</us-gaap:AccountsPayableTradeCurrent>
  <!--Accounts Payable, Trade, Current-->
  <us-gaap:AccountsPayableTradeCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">128006000</us-gaap:AccountsPayableTradeCurrent>
  <!--Accounts Payable, Trade, Current-Additions to property, plant and equipment and leasehold improvements [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AccountsPayableTradeCurrent contextRef="c20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">29493000</us-gaap:AccountsPayableTradeCurrent>
  <!--Accounts Payable, Trade, Current-Additions to property, plant and equipment and leasehold improvements [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AccountsPayableTradeCurrent contextRef="c20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:AccountsPayableTradeCurrent>
  <!--Accounts Receivable, Net, Current-->
  <us-gaap:AccountsReceivableNetCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">144053000</us-gaap:AccountsReceivableNetCurrent>
  <!--Accounts Receivable, Net, Current-->
  <us-gaap:AccountsReceivableNetCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">146791000</us-gaap:AccountsReceivableNetCurrent>
  <!--Accrued Liabilities, Current-->
  <us-gaap:AccruedLiabilitiesCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">372874000</us-gaap:AccruedLiabilitiesCurrent>
  <!--Accrued Liabilities, Current-->
  <us-gaap:AccruedLiabilitiesCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">371343000</us-gaap:AccruedLiabilitiesCurrent>
  <!--Accumulated depreciation and amortization-->
  <us-gaap:AccumulatedDepreciationDepletionAndAmortizationPropertyPlantAndEquipment contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-2543035000</us-gaap:AccumulatedDepreciationDepletionAndAmortizationPropertyPlantAndEquipment>
  <!--Accumulated depreciation and amortization-->
  <us-gaap:AccumulatedDepreciationDepletionAndAmortizationPropertyPlantAndEquipment contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-2670455000</us-gaap:AccumulatedDepreciationDepletionAndAmortizationPropertyPlantAndEquipment>
  <!--Additional Paid in Capital-->
  <us-gaap:AdditionalPaidInCapital contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">4069283000</us-gaap:AdditionalPaidInCapital>
  <!--Additional Paid in Capital-->
  <us-gaap:AdditionalPaidInCapital contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">4078781000</us-gaap:AdditionalPaidInCapital>
  <!--Allocated Share-based Compensation Expense-Additional Paid-in Capital [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">9769000</us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense>
  <!--Allocated Share-based Compensation Expense-Noncontrolling Interest [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_NoncontrollingInterestMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense>
  <!--Allocated Share-based Compensation Expense-Treasury Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_TreasuryStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense>
  <!--Allocated Share-based Compensation Expense-->
  <us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">9769000</us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense>
  <!--Allocated Share-based Compensation Expense-Stockholders' Equity [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_ParentMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">9769000</us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense>
  <!--Allocated Share-based Compensation Expense-Accumulated Deficit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_RetainedEarningsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense>
  <!--Allocated Share-based Compensation Expense-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense>
  <!--Allocated Share-based Compensation Expense-->
  <us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">8873000</us-gaap:AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense>
  <!--Amortization of Financing Costs and Discounts-->
  <us-gaap:AmortizationOfFinancingCostsAndDiscounts contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2310000</us-gaap:AmortizationOfFinancingCostsAndDiscounts>
  <!--Amortization of Financing Costs and Discounts-->
  <us-gaap:AmortizationOfFinancingCostsAndDiscounts contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">381000</us-gaap:AmortizationOfFinancingCostsAndDiscounts>
  <!--Amortization expense related to definite-lived intangible assets-->
  <us-gaap:AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">3100000</us-gaap:AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets>
  <!--Amortization expense related to definite-lived intangible assets-->
  <us-gaap:AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">2900000</us-gaap:AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets>
  <!--Amortization of (above) below market rents, net-->
  <us-gaap:AmortizationOfAboveAndBelowMarketLeases contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-1733000</us-gaap:AmortizationOfAboveAndBelowMarketLeases>
  <!--Amortization of (above) below market rents, net-->
  <us-gaap:AmortizationOfAboveAndBelowMarketLeases contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-1959000</us-gaap:AmortizationOfAboveAndBelowMarketLeases>
  <!--Non-cash interest expense on financing leases-->
  <us-gaap:AmortizationOfFinancingCosts contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">6439000</us-gaap:AmortizationOfFinancingCosts>
  <!--Non-cash interest expense on financing leases-->
  <us-gaap:AmortizationOfFinancingCosts contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">5700000</us-gaap:AmortizationOfFinancingCosts>
  <!--Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share-Convertible Debt Securities [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount contextRef="c20150101to20150331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_ConvertibleDebtSecuritiesMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-5">13800000</us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount>
  <!--Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share-Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount contextRef="c20160101to20160331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_RestrictedStockMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-5">3900000</us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount>
  <!--Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share-Warrant [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount contextRef="c20150101to20150331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_WarrantMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-5">10800000</us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount>
  <!--Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share-Warrant [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount contextRef="c20160101to20160331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_WarrantMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-5">10800000</us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount>
  <!--Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share-Convertible Debt Securities [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount contextRef="c20160101to20160331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_ConvertibleDebtSecuritiesMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-5">13800000</us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount>
  <!--Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share-Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount contextRef="c20150101to20150331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_RestrictedStockMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-5">4000000</us-gaap:AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount>
  <!--Asset Impairment Charges-->
  <us-gaap:AssetImpairmentCharges contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:AssetImpairmentCharges>
  <!--Asset Impairment Charges-->
  <us-gaap:AssetImpairmentCharges contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">3375000</us-gaap:AssetImpairmentCharges>
  <!--Asset Impairment Charges-Disposal Group, Held-for-sale, Not Discontinued Operations [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AssetImpairmentCharges contextRef="c20150101to20151231_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_DisposalGroupHeldforsaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">15200000</us-gaap:AssetImpairmentCharges>
  <!--Asset Impairment Charges-Disposal Group, Held-for-sale, Not Discontinued Operations [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:AssetImpairmentCharges contextRef="c20160101to20160331_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_DisposalGroupHeldforsaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">2600000</us-gaap:AssetImpairmentCharges>
  <!--Assets Held-for-sale-->
  <us-gaap:AssetsHeldForSaleLongLivedFairValueDisclosure contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">110620000</us-gaap:AssetsHeldForSaleLongLivedFairValueDisclosure>
  <!--Assets Held-for-sale-->
  <us-gaap:AssetsHeldForSaleLongLivedFairValueDisclosure contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">65906000</us-gaap:AssetsHeldForSaleLongLivedFairValueDisclosure>
  <!--Total assets-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">10048564000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">9988672000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">6347178000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-Management Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_ManagementServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">823852000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-Management Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_ManagementServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">841759000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1542954000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1549623000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-CCRCs Rental [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_CcrcsRentalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1035371000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">288883000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">6294576000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-CCRCs Rental [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_CcrcsRentalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1020500000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Total assets-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Assets contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">292540000</us-gaap:Assets>
  <!--Assets, Current-->
  <us-gaap:AssetsCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">497943000</us-gaap:AssetsCurrent>
  <!--Assets, Current-->
  <us-gaap:AssetsCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">467499000</us-gaap:AssetsCurrent>
  <!--Basis of Presentation-->
  <us-gaap:BasisOfPresentationAndSignificantAccountingPoliciesTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Basis of Presentation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") for quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. In the opinion of management, these financial statements include all adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company as of March 31, 2016, and for all periods presented. The condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared on the accrual basis of accounting. All adjustments made have been of a normal and recurring nature. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles have been condensed or omitted. The Company believes that the disclosures included are adequate and provide a fair presentation of interim period results. Interim financial statements are not necessarily indicative of the financial position or operating results for an entire year. It is suggested that these interim financial statements be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and the notes thereto, together with management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations, included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 filed with the SEC on February 12, 2016.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The results of communities and companies acquired are included in the condensed consolidated financial statements from the effective date of the respective acquisition.&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:BasisOfPresentationAndSignificantAccountingPoliciesTextBlock>
  <!--Business Combination, Acquisition Related Costs-->
  <us-gaap:BusinessCombinationAcquisitionRelatedCosts contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">6742000</us-gaap:BusinessCombinationAcquisitionRelatedCosts>
  <!--Business Combination, Acquisition Related Costs-->
  <us-gaap:BusinessCombinationAcquisitionRelatedCosts contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">850000</us-gaap:BusinessCombinationAcquisitionRelatedCosts>
  <!--Continuing Care Retirement Communities, Advance Fees, Refunds-->
  <us-gaap:ContinuingCareRetirementCommunitiesAdvanceFeesRefunds contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">829000</us-gaap:ContinuingCareRetirementCommunitiesAdvanceFeesRefunds>
  <!--Continuing Care Retirement Communities, Advance Fees, Refunds-->
  <us-gaap:ContinuingCareRetirementCommunitiesAdvanceFeesRefunds contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1128000</us-gaap:ContinuingCareRetirementCommunitiesAdvanceFeesRefunds>
  <!--Capital and financing lease obligations, less current portion-->
  <us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2403191000</us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent>
  <!--Capital and financing lease obligations, less current portion-->
  <us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2427438000</us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsNoncurrent>
  <!--Current portion of capital and financing lease obligations-->
  <us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">90019000</us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent>
  <!--Current portion of capital and financing lease obligations-->
  <us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">62150000</us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent>
  <!--Capital and Financing Lease Obligations-Proceeds from sale of assets, net [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsIncurred contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">121000</us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsIncurred>
  <!--Capital and Financing Lease Obligations-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsIncurred contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">53596000</us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsIncurred>
  <!--Capital and Financing Lease Obligations-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsIncurred contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsIncurred>
  <!--Capital and Financing Lease Obligations-Proceeds from sale of assets, net [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsIncurred contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:CapitalLeaseObligationsIncurred>
  <!--Cash and Cash Equivalents, at Carrying Value-->
  <us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">70862000</us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue>
  <!--Cash and Cash Equivalents, at Carrying Value-->
  <us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">88029000</us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue>
  <!--Cash and Cash Equivalents, at Carrying Value-->
  <us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue contextRef="c20141231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">104083000</us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue>
  <!--Cash and Cash Equivalents, at Carrying Value-->
  <us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue contextRef="c20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">115182000</us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue>
  <!--Cash and Cash Equivalents, Period Increase (Decrease)-->
  <us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsPeriodIncreaseDecrease contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-17167000</us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsPeriodIncreaseDecrease>
  <!--Cash and Cash Equivalents, Period Increase (Decrease)-->
  <us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsPeriodIncreaseDecrease contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">11099000</us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsPeriodIncreaseDecrease>
  <!--Cash Flow, Supplemental Disclosures [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:CashFlowSupplementalDisclosuresTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;10.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;(dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Three Months Ended&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Interest paid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;92,270&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;86,732&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Income taxes paid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;246&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;41&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Additions to property, plant and equipment and leasehold improvements&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;79,017&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;79,129&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Accounts payable&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;29,493&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net cash paid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;108,510&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;79,129&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Acquisition of assets, net of related payables and cash received:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Prepaid expenses and other assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(47,225&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;19,457&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;184,964&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Other intangible assets, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(7,300&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,970&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Capital and financing lease obligations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;53,596&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Long-term debt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(20,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net cash paid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;12,157&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;174,305&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Proceeds from sale of assets:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assets held for sale&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;42,714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Prepaid expenses and other assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;121&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Gain on sale of assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,749&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net cash received&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;45,584&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:CashFlowSupplementalDisclosuresTextBlock>
  <!--Common stock, $0.01 par value, 400,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015; 193,257,659 and 190,767,191 shares issued and 190,829,258 and 188,338,790 shares outstanding (including 5,026,688 and 3,453,991 unvested restricted shares), respectively-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockValue contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1908000</us-gaap:CommonStockValue>
  <!--Common stock, $0.01 par value, 400,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015; 193,257,659 and 190,767,191 shares issued and 190,829,258 and 188,338,790 shares outstanding (including 5,026,688 and 3,453,991 unvested restricted shares), respectively-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockValue contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1883000</us-gaap:CommonStockValue>
  <!--Common Stock, Shares, Issued-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockSharesIssued contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">190767191</us-gaap:CommonStockSharesIssued>
  <!--Common Stock, Shares, Issued-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockSharesIssued contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">193257659</us-gaap:CommonStockSharesIssued>
  <!--Common Stock, Shares Authorized-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockSharesAuthorized contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">400000000</us-gaap:CommonStockSharesAuthorized>
  <!--Common Stock, Shares Authorized-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockSharesAuthorized contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">400000000</us-gaap:CommonStockSharesAuthorized>
  <!--Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockParOrStatedValuePerShare contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U003" decimals="2">0.01</us-gaap:CommonStockParOrStatedValuePerShare>
  <!--Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockParOrStatedValuePerShare contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U003" decimals="2">0.01</us-gaap:CommonStockParOrStatedValuePerShare>
  <!--Common stock, shares outstanding (in shares)-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">190829258</us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding>
  <!--Common stock, shares outstanding (in shares)-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">188338790</us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding>
  <!--Common stock, shares outstanding (in shares)-Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding contextRef="c20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">5026688</us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding>
  <!--Common stock, shares outstanding (in shares)-Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding contextRef="c20151231_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">3453991</us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding>
  <!--Common stock, shares outstanding (in shares)-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding contextRef="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">188339000</us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding>
  <!--Common stock, shares outstanding (in shares)-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding contextRef="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">190829000</us-gaap:CommonStockSharesOutstanding>
  <!--Principles of Consolidation-->
  <us-gaap:ConsolidationPolicyTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Principles of Consolidation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Brookdale and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. Investments in affiliated companies that the Company does not control, but has the ability to exercise significant influence over governance and operation, are accounted for by the equity method. The ownership interest of consolidated entities not wholly owned by the Company are presented as noncontrolling interests in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements. Noncontrolling interest represents the share of consolidated entities owned by third parties. Noncontrolling interest is adjusted for the noncontrolling holder's share of additional contributions, distributions and the proportionate share of the net income or loss of each respective entity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company continually evaluates its potential variable interest entity ("VIE") relationships under certain criteria as provided for in Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 810, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Consolidation&lt;/font&gt; ("ASC 810").&amp;#160; ASC 810 broadly defines a VIE as an entity in which either (i) the equity investors as a group, if any, lack the power through voting or similar rights to direct the activities of such entity that most significantly impact such entity's economic performance or (ii) the equity investment at risk is insufficient to finance that entity's activities without additional subordinated financial support. The Company identifies the primary beneficiary of a VIE as the enterprise that has both of the following characteristics: (i) the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the entity's economic performance; and (ii) the obligation to absorb losses or receive benefits of the VIE that could potentially be significant to the entity. The Company performs this analysis on an ongoing basis and consolidates any VIEs for which the Company is determined to be the primary beneficiary. Refer to Note 13 for more information about the Company's VIE relationships.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ConsolidationPolicyTextBlock>
  <!--Costs incurred on behalf of managed communities-->
  <us-gaap:CostOfReimbursableExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">185228000</us-gaap:CostOfReimbursableExpense>
  <!--Costs incurred on behalf of managed communities-->
  <us-gaap:CostOfReimbursableExpense contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">180552000</us-gaap:CostOfReimbursableExpense>
  <!--Cost of Goods and Services Sold, Depreciation and Amortization-->
  <us-gaap:CostOfGoodsAndServicesSoldDepreciationAndAmortization contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">208823000</us-gaap:CostOfGoodsAndServicesSoldDepreciationAndAmortization>
  <!--Cost of Goods and Services Sold, Depreciation and Amortization-->
  <us-gaap:CostOfGoodsAndServicesSoldDepreciationAndAmortization contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">114103000</us-gaap:CostOfGoodsAndServicesSoldDepreciationAndAmortization>
  <!--Facility operating expense (excluding depreciation and amortization of $114,103 and $208,823, respectively)-->
  <us-gaap:CostOfRealEstateRevenue contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">696889000</us-gaap:CostOfRealEstateRevenue>
  <!--Facility operating expense (excluding depreciation and amortization of $114,103 and $208,823, respectively)-->
  <us-gaap:CostOfRealEstateRevenue contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">715902000</us-gaap:CostOfRealEstateRevenue>
  <!--Costs and Expenses-->
  <us-gaap:CostsAndExpenses contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1364754000</us-gaap:CostsAndExpenses>
  <!--Costs and Expenses-->
  <us-gaap:CostsAndExpenses contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1221802000</us-gaap:CostsAndExpenses>
  <!--Customer Refundable Fees, Cash Received-->
  <us-gaap:CustomerRefundableFeesCashReceived contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-36000</us-gaap:CustomerRefundableFeesCashReceived>
  <!--Customer Refundable Fees, Cash Received-->
  <us-gaap:CustomerRefundableFeesCashReceived contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-535000</us-gaap:CustomerRefundableFeesCashReceived>
  <!--Maturity date, start-Capital Lease Obligations [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_CapitalLeaseObligationsMember">2031-12-31</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1>
  <!--Maturity date, start-Other Notes Payable [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember">2016-12-31</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1>
  <!--Maturity date, start-Convertible Debt [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember">2018-06-30</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1>
  <!--Maturity date, start-Construction Loans [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConstructionLoansMember">2019-12-31</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1>
  <!--Maturity date, start-Mortgages [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember">2017-12-31</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1>
  <!--Maturity date, start-Notes Payable, Insurance Premiums [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_UnsecuredDebtMember">2016-12-31</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeStart1>
  <!--Debt-Carrying Value, Fair Value Disclosure [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations contextRef="c20160331_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis_CarryingReportedAmountFairValueDisclosureMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-8">3900000000</us-gaap:DebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations>
  <!--Debt-Estimate of Fair Value, Fair Value Disclosure [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations contextRef="c20151231_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis_EstimateOfFairValueFairValueDisclosureMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-8">3900000000</us-gaap:DebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations>
  <!--Debt-Estimate of Fair Value, Fair Value Disclosure [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations contextRef="c20160331_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis_EstimateOfFairValueFairValueDisclosureMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-8">3900000000</us-gaap:DebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations>
  <!--Debt-Carrying Value, Fair Value Disclosure [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations contextRef="c20151231_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis_CarryingReportedAmountFairValueDisclosureMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-8">3900000000</us-gaap:DebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations>
  <!--Maturity date, end-Construction Loans [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeEnd1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConstructionLoansMember">2032-12-31</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeEnd1>
  <!--Maturity date, end-Other Notes Payable [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeEnd1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember">2020-12-31</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeEnd1>
  <!--Maturity date, end-Mortgages [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeEnd1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember">2047-12-31</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDateRangeEnd1>
  <!--Debt Disclosure [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;8.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Debt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Long-term Debt and Capital and Financing Lease Obligations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Long-term debt and capital and financing lease obligations consist of the following (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;December 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Mortgage notes payable due 2017 through 2047; &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;weighted average interest&lt;/font&gt; rate of 4.58% for&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt; the three months ended March 31, 2016, including net debt premium and deferring financing costs of $1.3 million and $3.3 million at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively (weighted average interest rate of 4.51% in 2015)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;3,329,740&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;3,246,513&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Capital and financing lease obligations payable through 2031; weighted average interest rate of 8.07% &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;fo&lt;/font&gt;r the three months ended March 31, 2016 (weighted average interest rate of 8.11% in 2015)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,493,210&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,489,588&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Convertible notes payable in aggregate principal amount of $316.3 million, less debt discount and deferred financing costs of $31.1 million and $34.3 million at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively, interest at 2.75% per annum, due June 2018&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;285,189&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;281,902&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Construction financing due 2019 through 2032; weighted average interest rate of 7.76&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;% f&lt;/font&gt;or the three months ended March 31, 2016 (weighted average interest rate of 4.84% in 2015)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;15,353&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;24,105&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Notes payable issued to finance insurance premiums, weighted average interest rate of 2.94% for the three months ended March 31, 2016, due 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;17,677&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Other notes payable, weighted average interest rate of 5.24% for t&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;he three months ended March 31, 2016 (weighted average interest rate of 5.16% in 2015)&lt;/font&gt; and maturity dates ranging from 2016 to 2020&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;80,751&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;80,305&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total debt and capital and financing lease obligations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;6,221,920&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;6,122,413&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Less current portion&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;275,661&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;235,604&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total long-term debt and capital and financing lease obligations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;5,946,259&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;5,886,809&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Credit Facilities&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;O&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;n December 19, 2014, the Company &lt;/font&gt;entered into a Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement with General Electric Capital Corporation, as administrative agent, lender and swingline lender, and the other lenders from time to time parties thereto. The agreement provides for a total commitment amount of $500.0 million, comprised of a $100.0 million term loan drawn at closing and a $400.0 million revolving credit facility (with a $50.0 million sublimit for letters of credit and a $50.0 million swingline feature to permit same day borrowing) and an option to increase the revolving credit facility by an additional $250.0 million, subject to obtaining commitments for the amount of such increase from acceptable lenders. The maturity date is January 3, 2020, and amounts drawn under the facility bear interest at 90-day LIBOR plus an applicable margin from a range of 2.50% to 3.50%. The applicable margin varies based on the percentage of the total commitment drawn, with a 2.50% margin at utilization equal to or lower than 35%, a 3.25% margin at utilization greater than 35% but less than or equal to 50%, and a 3.50% margin at utilization greater than 50%. The quarterly commitment fee on the unused portion of the facility is 0.25% per annum when the outstanding amount of obligations (including revolving credit, swingline and term loans and letter of credit obligations) is greater than or equal to 50% of the total commitment amount or 0.35% per annum when such outstanding amount is less than 50% of the total commitment amount.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Amounts drawn on the facility may be used to finance acquisitions, fund working capital and capital expenditures and for other general corporate purposes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The facility is secured by a first priority mortgage on certain of the Company's communities. In addition, the agreement permits the Company to pledge the equity interests in subsidiaries that own other communities (rather than mortgaging such communities), provided that loan availability from pledged assets cannot exceed 10% of loan availability from mortgaged assets. The availability under the line will vary from time to time as it is based on borrowing base calculations related to the appraised value and performance of the communities securing the facility.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The agreement contains typical affirmative and negative covenants, including financial covenants with respect to minimum consolidated fixed charge coverage and minimum consolidated tangible net worth. A violation of any of these covenants could result in a default under the credit agreement, which would result in termination of all commitments under the agreement and all amounts owing under the agreement and certain other loan agreements becoming immediately due and payable and/or trigger cross default provisions in our other outstanding debt and lease agreements.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;As of March 31, 2016, the outstanding balance under this credit facility was $210.0 million. Additionally, there were $24.2 million of letters of credit outstanding under this credit facility. In addition to the sublimit for letters of credit on this credit facility, the Company also had separate secured and unsecured letter of credit facilities of up to $64.5 million in the aggregate as of March 31, 2016.&amp;#160;Letters of credit totaling $62.5 million had been issued under these separate facilities as of that date.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;2016 Financings&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;In March 2016, the Company obtained a $100.0 million supplemental loan, secured by first mortgages on ten communities. The loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 4.20% and matures on January 1, 2023. Proceeds from the loan were utilized to pay down the outstanding balance of the credit facility.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;As of March 31, 2016, the Company is in compliance with the financial covenants of its outstanding debt and lease agreements.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:DebtDisclosureTextBlock>
  <!--Unamortized debt discount-Mortgages [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentUnamortizedDiscount contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">1300000</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentUnamortizedDiscount>
  <!--Unamortized debt discount-Convertible Debt [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentUnamortizedDiscount contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">31100000</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentUnamortizedDiscount>
  <!--Unamortized debt discount-Mortgages [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentUnamortizedDiscount contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">3300000</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentUnamortizedDiscount>
  <!--Unamortized debt discount-Convertible Debt [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentUnamortizedDiscount contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">34300000</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentUnamortizedDiscount>
  <!--Maturity date-Line of Credit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDate contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LineOfCreditMember">2020-01-03</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDate>
  <!--Maturity date-First Mortgage loan refinanced in March 2016 [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDate contextRef="c20160101to20160331_ExtinguishmentOfDebtAxis_FirstMortgageLoanRefinancedInMarch2016Member">2023-01-01</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentMaturityDate>
  <!--Debt Instrument, Face Amount-Convertible Debt Securities [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentFaceAmount contextRef="c20160331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_ConvertibleDebtSecuritiesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">316300000</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentFaceAmount>
  <!--Debt Instrument, Face Amount-Convertible Debt [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentFaceAmount contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">316300000</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentFaceAmount>
  <!--Debt Instrument, Face Amount-Convertible Debt [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DebtInstrumentFaceAmount contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">316300000</us-gaap:DebtInstrumentFaceAmount>
  <!--Debt Issuance Costs Incurred During Noncash or Partial Noncash Transaction-->
  <us-gaap:DebtIssuanceCostsIncurredDuringNoncashOrPartialNoncashTransaction contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">44000</us-gaap:DebtIssuanceCostsIncurredDuringNoncashOrPartialNoncashTransaction>
  <!--Debt Issuance Costs Incurred During Noncash or Partial Noncash Transaction-->
  <us-gaap:DebtIssuanceCostsIncurredDuringNoncashOrPartialNoncashTransaction contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">139000</us-gaap:DebtIssuanceCostsIncurredDuringNoncashOrPartialNoncashTransaction>
  <!--Deferred Credits and Other Liabilities, Noncurrent-->
  <us-gaap:DeferredCreditsAndOtherLiabilitiesNoncurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">266537000</us-gaap:DeferredCreditsAndOtherLiabilitiesNoncurrent>
  <!--Deferred Credits and Other Liabilities, Noncurrent-->
  <us-gaap:DeferredCreditsAndOtherLiabilitiesNoncurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">268544000</us-gaap:DeferredCreditsAndOtherLiabilitiesNoncurrent>
  <!--Deferred Income Tax Expense (Benefit)-->
  <us-gaap:DeferredIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-79237000</us-gaap:DeferredIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit>
  <!--Deferred Income Tax Expense (Benefit)-->
  <us-gaap:DeferredIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">934000</us-gaap:DeferredIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit>
  <!--Deferred Revenue and Credits, Current-->
  <us-gaap:DeferredRevenueAndCreditsCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">112661000</us-gaap:DeferredRevenueAndCreditsCurrent>
  <!--Deferred Revenue and Credits, Current-->
  <us-gaap:DeferredRevenueAndCreditsCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">99277000</us-gaap:DeferredRevenueAndCreditsCurrent>
  <!--Deferred Tax Assets, Valuation Allowance-->
  <us-gaap:DeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">-121600000</us-gaap:DeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance>
  <!--Deferred Tax Assets, Valuation Allowance-->
  <us-gaap:DeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">-135800000</us-gaap:DeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance>
  <!--Deferred Tax Liabilities, Net, Noncurrent-->
  <us-gaap:DeferredTaxLiabilitiesNoncurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">69051000</us-gaap:DeferredTaxLiabilitiesNoncurrent>
  <!--Deferred Tax Liabilities, Net, Noncurrent-->
  <us-gaap:DeferredTaxLiabilitiesNoncurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">69984000</us-gaap:DeferredTaxLiabilitiesNoncurrent>
  <!--Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization, Nonproduction-->
  <us-gaap:DepreciationAndAmortization contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">220427000</us-gaap:DepreciationAndAmortization>
  <!--Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization, Nonproduction-->
  <us-gaap:DepreciationAndAmortization contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">127137000</us-gaap:DepreciationAndAmortization>
  <!--Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization-->
  <us-gaap:DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">220808000</us-gaap:DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization>
  <!--Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization-->
  <us-gaap:DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">129447000</us-gaap:DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization>
  <!--New Accounting Pronouncements-->
  <us-gaap:DescriptionOfNewAccountingPronouncementsNotYetAdopted contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;New Accounting Pronouncements&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;In March 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-09, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Compensation-Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting&lt;/font&gt; ("ASU 2016-09"). ASU 2016-09 is intended to simplify the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the accounting for income taxes and forfeitures, as well as the classification of awards and classification on the statement of cash flows. ASU 2016-09 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2016. The Company is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of ASU 2016-09 will have on its condensed consolidated financial statements and disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Leases &lt;/font&gt;("ASU 2016-02"). ASU 2016-02 requires a lessee to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for virtually all leases. ASU 2016-02 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of ASU 2016-02 will have on its condensed consolidated financial statements and disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;In February 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-02, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Consolidation: Amendments to the Consolidation Analysis &lt;/font&gt;("ASU 2015-02"). ASU 2015-02 changes the analysis that a reporting entity must perform to determine whether it should consolidate certain types of legal entities. ASU 2015-02 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. The Company adopted ASU 2015-02 on January 1, 2016, and it did not have a material impact on the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements and disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Revenue from Contracts with Customers&lt;/font&gt; ("ASU 2014-09"). ASU 2014-09 affects any entity that either enters into contracts with customers to transfer goods or services or enters into contracts for the transfer of nonfinancial assets. Under ASU 2014-09, an entity will recognize revenue when it transfers promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects what it expects in exchange for the goods or services. The new standard will be effective for the Company beginning on January 1, 2018 and early adoption will be permitted beginning on January 1, 2017. The Company is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of ASU 2014-09 will have on its condensed consolidated financial statements and disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:DescriptionOfNewAccountingPronouncementsNotYetAdopted>
  <!--Facility Operating Expense-Reclassification [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:DirectCostsOfLeasedAndRentedPropertyOrEquipment contextRef="c20150101to20150331_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis_RestatementAdjustmentMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">5300000</us-gaap:DirectCostsOfLeasedAndRentedPropertyOrEquipment>
  <!--Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:DisclosureOfCompensationRelatedCostsShareBasedPaymentsTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;5.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Stock-Based Compensation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company's compensation expense recorded in connection with grants of restricted stock reflects an initial estimated cumulative forfeiture rate from 0% to 20% over the requisite service period of the awards. That estimate is revised if subsequent information indicates that the actual number of awards expected to vest is likely to differ from previous estimates.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Current year grants of restricted stock under the Company's 2014 Omnibus Incentive Plan were as follows (amounts in thousands except for value per share):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Shares Granted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Value Per Share&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Total Value&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 64%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Three months ended March 31, 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,855&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;14.49 &amp;#8211; 18.46&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;41,371&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:DisclosureOfCompensationRelatedCostsShareBasedPaymentsTextBlock>
  <!--Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted-->
  <us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasicAndDiluted contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U003" decimals="2">-0.71</us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasicAndDiluted>
  <!--Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted-->
  <us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasicAndDiluted contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U003" decimals="2">-0.26</us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasicAndDiluted>
  <!--Earnings Per Share [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:EarningsPerShareTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;3.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Earnings Per Share&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Basic earnings per share ("EPS") is calculated by dividing net income by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Diluted EPS includes the components of basic EPS and also gives effect to dilutive common stock equivalents.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;For purposes of calculating basic and diluted earnings per share, vested restricted stock awards are considered outstanding.&amp;#160;Under the treasury stock method, diluted EPS reflects the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other instruments that are convertible into common stock were exercised or could result in the issuance of common stock.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Potentially dilutive common stock equivalents include unvested restricted stock, restricted stock units and convertible debt instruments and warrants.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;During the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015, the Company reported a consolidated net loss.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;As a result of the net loss, unvested restricted stock, restricted stock units and convertible debt instruments and warrants were antidilutive for each period and were not included in the computation of diluted weighted average shares.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The weighted average restricted stock and restricted stock units excluded from the calculations of diluted net loss per share were 3.9 million and 4.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The calculation of diluted weighted average shares excludes the impact of conversion of the outstanding principal amount of $316.3 million of the Company's 2.75% convertible senior notes due 2018. As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, the maximum number of shares issuable upon conversion of the notes is approximately 13.8 million (after giving effect to additional make-whole shares issuable upon conversion in connection with the occurrence of certain events); however it is the Company's current intent and policy to settle the principal amount of the notes in cash upon conversion. The maximum number of shares issuable upon conversion of the notes in excess of the amount of principal that would be settled in cash is approximately 3.0 million. In addition, the calculation of diluted weighted average shares excludes the impact of the exercise of warrants to acquire the Company's common stock. As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, the number of shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants was approximately 10.8 million.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:EarningsPerShareTextBlock>
  <!--Percentage ownership in unconsolidated joint ventures-Variable Interest Entity, Not Primary Beneficiary, Real Estate Company [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentOwnershipPercentage contextRef="c20160331_VariableInterestEntitiesByClassificationOfEntityAxis_VariableInterestEntityNotPrimaryBeneficiaryRealEstateCompanyMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="1">0.2</us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentOwnershipPercentage>
  <!--Percentage ownership in unconsolidated joint ventures-->
  <us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentOwnershipPercentage contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U005" decimals="1">0.1</us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentOwnershipPercentage>
  <!--Percentage ownership in unconsolidated joint ventures-Variable Interest Entity, Not Primary Beneficiary, Operating Company [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentOwnershipPercentage contextRef="c20160331_VariableInterestEntitiesByClassificationOfEntityAxis_VariableInterestEntityNotPrimaryBeneficiaryOperatingCompanyMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="2">0.51</us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentOwnershipPercentage>
  <!--Distributions from unconsolidated ventures from cumulative share of net earnings-->
  <us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentDividendsOrDistributions contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentDividendsOrDistributions>
  <!--Distributions from unconsolidated ventures from cumulative share of net earnings-->
  <us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentDividendsOrDistributions contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">500000</us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentDividendsOrDistributions>
  <!--Equity Method Investment, Realized Gain (Loss) on Disposal-->
  <us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentRealizedGainLossOnDisposal contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2749000</us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentRealizedGainLossOnDisposal>
  <!--Equity Method Investment, Realized Gain (Loss) on Disposal-->
  <us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentRealizedGainLossOnDisposal contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentRealizedGainLossOnDisposal>
  <!--Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures Disclosure [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentsDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;13.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Variable Interest Entities&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;At March 31, 2016, the Company has equity interests in unconsolidated VIEs. The Company has determined that it does not have the power to direct the activities of the VIEs that most significantly impact the VIEs' economic performance and is not the primary beneficiary of these VIEs in accordance with ASC 810. The Company's interests in the VIEs are, therefore, accounted for under the equity method of accounting.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company holds a 51% equity interest, and HCP, Inc. ("HCP") owns a 49% interest, in a venture that owns and operates entry fee CCRCs (the "CCRC Venture"). The CCRC Venture's opco has been identified as a VIE. The equity members of the CCRC Venture's opco share certain operating rights, and the Company acts as manager to the CCRC Venture opco. However, the Company does not consolidate this VIE because it does not have the ability to control the activities that most significantly impact this VIE's economic performance. The assets of the CCRC Venture opco primarily consist of the CCRCs that it owns and leases, resident fees receivable, notes receivable and cash and cash equivalents. The obligations of the CCRC Venture opco primarily consist of community lease obligations, mortgage debt, accounts payable, accrued expenses and refundable entrance fees. Assets generated by the CCRC operations (primarily rents from CCRC residents) of the CCRC Venture opco may only be used to settle its contractual obligations (primarily the rental costs and operating expenses incurred to operate the communities).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company holds an equity ownership interest in each of the propco and opco of three ventures ("RIDEA Ventures") that operate senior housing communities in a RIDEA structure. The Company's equity ownership interest is 10% for two of the ventures and 20% for one venture. HCP owns the remaining 90% and 80% equity ownership interests in the RIDEA Ventures. The RIDEA Ventures have been identified as VIEs. The equity members of the RIDEA Ventures share certain operating rights, and the Company acts as manager to the opcos of the RIDEA Ventures. However, the Company does not consolidate these VIEs because it does not have the ability to control the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of these VIEs. The assets of the RIDEA Ventures primarily consist of the senior housing communities that it owns, resident fees receivable, and cash and cash equivalents. The obligations of the RIDEA Ventures primarily consist of notes payable to HCP, accounts payable and accrued expenses. Assets generated by the operations of the senior housing communities (primarily rents from senior housing residents) of the RIDEA Ventures may only be used to settle its contractual obligations (primarily the notes payable and operating expenses incurred to operate the communities).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The carrying value and classification of the related assets, liabilities and maximum exposure to loss as a result of the Company's involvement with these VIEs are summarized below at March 31, 2016 (in millions):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;VIE Type&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Asset Type&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Maximum Exposure to Loss&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Carrying Amount&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 38%; vertical-align: middle; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;CCRC Venture opco&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 38%; vertical-align: middle; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Investment in unconsolidated ventures&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;179.2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;179.2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 38%; vertical-align: middle; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;RIDEA Ventures&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 38%; vertical-align: middle; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Investment in unconsolidated ventures&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;124.5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;124.5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;As of March 31, 2016, the Company is not required to provide financial support, through a liquidity arrangement or otherwise, to its unconsolidated VIEs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:EquityMethodInvestmentsDisclosureTextBlock>
  <!--Fair Value of Financial Instruments-->
  <us-gaap:FairValueOfFinancialInstrumentsPolicy contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Fair Value of Financial Instruments&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;ASC 820, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures&lt;/font&gt; establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. The valuation hierarchy is based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability as of the measurement date. Categorization within the valuation hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The three levels are defined as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Level 1 &amp;#8211; Inputs to the valuation methodology are quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Level 2 &amp;#8211; Inputs to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, and inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the financial instrument.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Level 3 &amp;#8211; Inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Cash and cash equivalents and cash and escrow deposits &amp;#8211; restricted are reflected in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets at amounts considered by management to reasonably approximate fair value due to the short maturity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company estimates the fair value of its debt using a discounted cash flow analysis based upon the Company's current borrowing rate for debt with similar maturities and collateral securing the indebtedness. The Company had outstanding debt (including the Company's secured credit facility but excluding capital and financing lease obligations) with a carrying value of approximately $3.9 billion as of both March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, including the Company's secured credit facility. Fair value of the debt approximates carrying value in all periods. The Company's fair value of debt disclosure is classified within Level 2 of the valuation hierarchy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:FairValueOfFinancialInstrumentsPolicy>
  <!--Fair Value of Assets Acquired-February 2015 acquisition of 15 communities [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:FairValueOfAssetsAcquired contextRef="c20150201to20150228_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_February2015AcquisitionOf15CommunitiesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">187200000</us-gaap:FairValueOfAssetsAcquired>
  <!--Accumulated Amortization-->
  <us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-19027000</us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization>
  <!--Accumulated Amortization-Tradenames [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_TradeNamesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-16717000</us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization>
  <!--Accumulated Amortization-Health care licenses [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_HealthCareLicensesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization>
  <!--Accumulated Amortization-Other [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_OtherIntangibleAssetsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-4818000</us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization>
  <!--Accumulated Amortization-Other [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_OtherIntangibleAssetsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-5161000</us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization>
  <!--Accumulated Amortization-Community Purchase Options [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_CommunityPurchaseOptionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization>
  <!--Accumulated Amortization-Health care licenses [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_HealthCareLicensesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization>
  <!--Accumulated Amortization-Tradenames [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_TradeNamesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-14209000</us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization>
  <!--Accumulated Amortization-->
  <us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-21878000</us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization>
  <!--Accumulated Amortization-Community Purchase Options [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_CommunityPurchaseOptionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsAccumulatedAmortization>
  <!--Gain (Loss) on Contract Termination-->
  <us-gaap:GainLossOnContractTermination contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:GainLossOnContractTermination>
  <!--Gain (Loss) on Contract Termination-->
  <us-gaap:GainLossOnContractTermination contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-76143000</us-gaap:GainLossOnContractTermination>
  <!--Gain (Loss) on Contract Termination-February 2015 acquisition of 15 communities [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GainLossOnContractTermination contextRef="c20150201to20150228_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_February2015AcquisitionOf15CommunitiesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">-76100000</us-gaap:GainLossOnContractTermination>
  <!--Gain on Sale of Communities-->
  <us-gaap:GainLossOnSaleOfProperties contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">2700000</us-gaap:GainLossOnSaleOfProperties>
  <!--Gains (Losses) on Extinguishment of Debt-->
  <us-gaap:GainsLossesOnExtinguishmentOfDebt contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-1110000</us-gaap:GainsLossesOnExtinguishmentOfDebt>
  <!--Gains (Losses) on Extinguishment of Debt-->
  <us-gaap:GainsLossesOnExtinguishmentOfDebt contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-44000</us-gaap:GainsLossesOnExtinguishmentOfDebt>
  <!--General and administrative expense (including non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $9,769 and $8,873, respectively)-->
  <us-gaap:GeneralAndAdministrativeExpense contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">89530000</us-gaap:GeneralAndAdministrativeExpense>
  <!--General and administrative expense (including non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $9,769 and $8,873, respectively)-->
  <us-gaap:GeneralAndAdministrativeExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">92621000</us-gaap:GeneralAndAdministrativeExpense>
  <!--Goodwill-->
  <us-gaap:Goodwill contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">725696000</us-gaap:Goodwill>
  <!--Goodwill-->
  <us-gaap:Goodwill contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">725696000</us-gaap:Goodwill>
  <!--Goodwill-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Goodwill contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">126810000</us-gaap:Goodwill>
  <!--Goodwill-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Goodwill contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">27420000</us-gaap:Goodwill>
  <!--Goodwill-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Goodwill contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">126810000</us-gaap:Goodwill>
  <!--Goodwill-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Goodwill contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">27420000</us-gaap:Goodwill>
  <!--Goodwill-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Goodwill contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">571466000</us-gaap:Goodwill>
  <!--Goodwill-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Goodwill contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">571466000</us-gaap:Goodwill>
  <!--Accumulated Impairment and Other Charges-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss>
  <!--Accumulated Impairment and Other Charges-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-21069000</us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss>
  <!--Accumulated Impairment and Other Charges-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-721000</us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss>
  <!--Accumulated Impairment and Other Charges-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss>
  <!--Accumulated Impairment and Other Charges-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-21069000</us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss>
  <!--Accumulated Impairment and Other Charges-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-721000</us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss>
  <!--Accumulated Impairment and Other Charges-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-20348000</us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss>
  <!--Accumulated Impairment and Other Charges-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-20348000</us-gaap:GoodwillImpairedAccumulatedImpairmentLoss>
  <!--Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillAndIntangibleAssetsDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;6.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets, Net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The following is a summary of the carrying amount of goodwill as of March 31, 2016 and as of December 31, 2015 presented on an operating segment basis (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="10" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31, 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="10" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;December 31, 2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amount&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Accumulated&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Impairment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;and Other&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Charges&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amount&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Accumulated&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Impairment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;and Other&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Charges&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Retirement Centers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;28,141&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(721&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;27,420&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;28,141&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(721&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;27,420&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assisted Living&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;591,814&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(20,348&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;571,466&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;591,814&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(20,348&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;571,466&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Brookdale Ancillary Services&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;126,810&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;126,810&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;126,810&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;126,810&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;746,765&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(21,069&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;725,696&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;746,765&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(21,069&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;725,696&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Goodwill is tested for impairment annually with a test date of October 1 or sooner if indicators of impairment are present.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company determined no impairment was necessary for the three months ended March 31, 2016. Factors the Company considers important in its analysis, which could trigger an impairment of such assets, include significant underperformance relative to historical or projected future operating results, significant negative industry or economic trends, a significant decline in the Company's stock price for a sustained period and a decline in its market capitalization below net book value. A change in anticipated operating results or the other metrics indicated above could necessitate further analysis of potential impairment at an interval prior to the Company's annual measurement date.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The following is a summary of other intangible assets at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015 (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="10" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31, 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="10" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;December 31, 2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amount&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Accumulated&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amortization&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amount&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Accumulated&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amortization&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Community purchase options&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;32,970&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;32,970&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;40,270&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;40,270&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Health care licenses&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;66,612&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;66,612&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;66,612&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;66,612&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Trade names&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;27,800&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(16,717&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;11,083&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;27,800&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(14,209&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;13,591&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Other&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;13,531&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(5,161&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;8,370&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;13,531&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(4,818&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;8,713&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;140,913&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(21,878&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;119,035&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;148,213&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(19,027&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;129,186&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Amortization expense related to definite-lived intangible assets for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 was $2.9 million and $3.1 million, respectively. Health care licenses were determined to be indefinite-lived intangible assets and are not subject to amortization. The community purchase options are not currently amortized, but will be added to the cost basis of the related communities if the option is exercised, and will then be depreciated over the estimated useful life of the community.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:GoodwillAndIntangibleAssetsDisclosureTextBlock>
  <!--Goodwill, Gross-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillGross contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">591814000</us-gaap:GoodwillGross>
  <!--Goodwill, Gross-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillGross contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">126810000</us-gaap:GoodwillGross>
  <!--Goodwill, Gross-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillGross contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">746765000</us-gaap:GoodwillGross>
  <!--Goodwill, Gross-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillGross contextRef="c20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">28141000</us-gaap:GoodwillGross>
  <!--Goodwill, Gross-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillGross contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">126810000</us-gaap:GoodwillGross>
  <!--Goodwill, Gross-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillGross contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">28141000</us-gaap:GoodwillGross>
  <!--Goodwill, Gross-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillGross contextRef="c20151231_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">591814000</us-gaap:GoodwillGross>
  <!--Goodwill, Gross-->
  <us-gaap:GoodwillGross contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">746765000</us-gaap:GoodwillGross>
  <!--Gross Profit-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-1">362026000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-2">223506000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-3">14518000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-4">220810000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-CCRCs Rental [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_CcrcsRentalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-5">35469000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-6">74449000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-7">370440000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-Management Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_ManagementServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-8">15097000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-Management Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_ManagementServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-9">16780000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-10">70524000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-CCRCs Rental [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_CcrcsRentalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-11">38571000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Gross Profit-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:GrossProfit contextRef="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-12">22742000</us-gaap:GrossProfit>
  <!--Resident fees-->
  <us-gaap:HealthCareOrganizationResidentServiceRevenue contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1052232000</us-gaap:HealthCareOrganizationResidentServiceRevenue>
  <!--Resident fees-->
  <us-gaap:HealthCareOrganizationResidentServiceRevenue contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1061148000</us-gaap:HealthCareOrganizationResidentServiceRevenue>
  <!--Income (Loss) from Equity Method Investments-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1018000</us-gaap:IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments>
  <!--Income (Loss) from Equity Method Investments-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1484000</us-gaap:IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments>
  <!--Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations before Income Taxes, Extraordinary Items, Noncontrolling Interest-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-208997000</us-gaap:IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations before Income Taxes, Extraordinary Items, Noncontrolling Interest-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-47152000</us-gaap:IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Tax years open for future examination-Minimum [Member]-Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeTaxExaminationYearUnderExamination contextRef="c20160101to20160331_IncomeTaxAuthorityAxis_InternalRevenueServiceIRSMember_RangeAxis_MinimumMember">2012</us-gaap:IncomeTaxExaminationYearUnderExamination>
  <!--Tax years open for future examination-Maximum [Member]-Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeTaxExaminationYearUnderExamination contextRef="c20160101to20160331_IncomeTaxAuthorityAxis_InternalRevenueServiceIRSMember_RangeAxis_MaximumMember">2014</us-gaap:IncomeTaxExaminationYearUnderExamination>
  <!--Income Tax Expense (Benefit)-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-78288000</us-gaap:IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit>
  <!--Income Tax Expense (Benefit)-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1665000</us-gaap:IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit>
  <!--Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeTaxDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;12.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Income Taxes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The difference in the Company's effective tax rates for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 was due to an increase in the valuation allowance against the Company's deferred tax assets recorded in 2016 and the negative tax benefit on the vesting of restricted stock, a direct result of the Company's lower stock price during the three months ended March 31, 2016. The Company determined that the additional valuation allowance was required after consideration of the Company's future reversal of estimated timing differences. The Company recorded a deferred federal, state and local tax benefit of $13.2 million as a result of the operating loss for the three months ended March 31, 2016, which was off-set by an increase in the valuation allowance of $14.2 million. &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;The Company recorded an aggregate deferred federal, state and local tax benefit of $79.2 million as a result of the operating loss for the three months ended March 31, 2015. &lt;/font&gt;The Company evaluates its deferred tax assets each quarter to determine if a valuation allowance is required based on whether it is more likely than not that some portion of the deferred tax asset would not be realized. The Company's valuation allowance as of March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015 is $135.8 million and $121.6 million, respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company's current tax expense continues to mainly reflect its cash tax position for states that do not allow for or have suspended the use of net operating losses for the period.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company recorded interest charges related to its tax contingency reserve for cash tax positions for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 which are included in income tax expense or benefit for the period. Tax returns for years 2012 through 2014 are subject to future examination by tax authorities. In addition, the net operating losses from prior years are subject to adjustment under examination.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:IncomeTaxDisclosureTextBlock>
  <!--Income taxes paid-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeTaxesPaid contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">41000</us-gaap:IncomeTaxesPaid>
  <!--Income taxes paid-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeTaxesPaid contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">246000</us-gaap:IncomeTaxesPaid>
  <!--Income Taxes-->
  <us-gaap:IncomeTaxPolicyTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Income Taxes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability approach which requires recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities. A valuation allowance reduces deferred tax assets when it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company has elected the "with-and-without approach" regarding ordering of windfall tax benefits to determine whether the windfall tax benefit did reduce taxes payable in the current year. Under this approach, the windfall tax benefits would be recognized in additional paid-in capital only if an incremental tax benefit is realized after considering all other tax benefits presently available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:IncomeTaxPolicyTextBlock>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Accounts Receivable-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsReceivable contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2738000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsReceivable>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Accounts Receivable-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsReceivable contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">13140000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsReceivable>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsPayableAndAccruedLiabilities contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-1388000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsPayableAndAccruedLiabilities>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsPayableAndAccruedLiabilities contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-38773000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInAccountsPayableAndAccruedLiabilities>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Deferred Revenue-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInDeferredRevenue contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">12766000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInDeferredRevenue>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Deferred Revenue-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInDeferredRevenue contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">11494000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInDeferredRevenue>
  <!--(Increase) decrease in lease security deposits and lease acquisition deposits, net-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInOtherDeposits contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-1210000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInOtherDeposits>
  <!--(Increase) decrease in lease security deposits and lease acquisition deposits, net-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInOtherDeposits contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">13037000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInOtherDeposits>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Security Deposits-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInSecurityDeposits contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-226000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInSecurityDeposits>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Security Deposits-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInSecurityDeposits contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-510000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInSecurityDeposits>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Restricted Cash-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInRestrictedCash contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-12289000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInRestrictedCash>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Restricted Cash-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInRestrictedCash contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-72000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInRestrictedCash>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Prepaid Expense and Other Assets-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInPrepaidDeferredExpenseAndOtherAssets contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">36554000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInPrepaidDeferredExpenseAndOtherAssets>
  <!--Increase (Decrease) in Prepaid Expense and Other Assets-->
  <us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInPrepaidDeferredExpenseAndOtherAssets contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-24504000</us-gaap:IncreaseDecreaseInPrepaidDeferredExpenseAndOtherAssets>
  <!--Interest Expense, Debt, Excluding Amortization-->
  <us-gaap:InterestExpenseDebtExcludingAmortization contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">42348000</us-gaap:InterestExpenseDebtExcludingAmortization>
  <!--Interest Expense, Debt, Excluding Amortization-->
  <us-gaap:InterestExpenseDebtExcludingAmortization contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">43990000</us-gaap:InterestExpenseDebtExcludingAmortization>
  <!--Interest Expense, Lessee, Assets under Capital Lease-->
  <us-gaap:InterestExpenseLesseeAssetsUnderCapitalLease contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">50579000</us-gaap:InterestExpenseLesseeAssetsUnderCapitalLease>
  <!--Interest Expense, Lessee, Assets under Capital Lease-->
  <us-gaap:InterestExpenseLesseeAssetsUnderCapitalLease contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">53203000</us-gaap:InterestExpenseLesseeAssetsUnderCapitalLease>
  <!--Interest paid-->
  <us-gaap:InterestPaidNet contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">92270000</us-gaap:InterestPaidNet>
  <!--Interest paid-->
  <us-gaap:InterestPaidNet contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">86732000</us-gaap:InterestPaidNet>
  <!--Investment Income, Interest-->
  <us-gaap:InvestmentIncomeInterest contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">427000</us-gaap:InvestmentIncomeInterest>
  <!--Investment Income, Interest-->
  <us-gaap:InvestmentIncomeInterest contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">702000</us-gaap:InvestmentIncomeInterest>
  <!--Investments in and Advance to Affiliates, Subsidiaries, Associates, and Joint Ventures-->
  <us-gaap:InvestmentsInAffiliatesSubsidiariesAssociatesAndJointVentures contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">373238000</us-gaap:InvestmentsInAffiliatesSubsidiariesAssociatesAndJointVentures>
  <!--Investments in and Advance to Affiliates, Subsidiaries, Associates, and Joint Ventures-->
  <us-gaap:InvestmentsInAffiliatesSubsidiariesAssociatesAndJointVentures contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">371639000</us-gaap:InvestmentsInAffiliatesSubsidiariesAssociatesAndJointVentures>
  <!--Letters of Credit Outstanding, Amount-Letter of Credit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LettersOfCreditOutstandingAmount contextRef="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LetterOfCreditMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">62500000</us-gaap:LettersOfCreditOutstandingAmount>
  <!--Letters of Credit Outstanding, Amount-Line of Credit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LettersOfCreditOutstandingAmount contextRef="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LineOfCreditMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">24200000</us-gaap:LettersOfCreditOutstandingAmount>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Construction Loans [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConstructionLoansMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0776</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Other Notes Payable [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0524</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Mortgages [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0458</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Convertible Debt [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0275</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Notes Payable, Insurance Premiums [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_UnsecuredDebtMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0294</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Capital Lease Obligations [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_CapitalLeaseObligationsMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0807</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Mortgages [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0451</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Capital Lease Obligations [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_CapitalLeaseObligationsMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0811</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Other Notes Payable [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0516</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Construction Loans [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConstructionLoansMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0484</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-Convertible Debt [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="4">0.0275</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Weighted average interest rate-First Mortgage loan refinanced in March 2016 [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate contextRef="c20160331_ExtinguishmentOfDebtAxis_FirstMortgageLoanRefinancedInMarch2016Member" unitRef="U005" decimals="3">0.042</us-gaap:LongtermDebtWeightedAverageInterestRate>
  <!--Facility lease expense-->
  <us-gaap:LeaseAndRentalExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">96689000</us-gaap:LeaseAndRentalExpense>
  <!--Facility lease expense-->
  <us-gaap:LeaseAndRentalExpense contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">94471000</us-gaap:LeaseAndRentalExpense>
  <!--Community Leases-->
  <us-gaap:LeasePolicyTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Community Leases&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company, as lessee, makes a determination with respect to each of its community leases as to whether each should be accounted for as an operating lease or capital lease. The classification criteria is based on estimates regarding the fair value of the leased community, minimum lease payments, effective cost of funds, the economic life of the community and certain other terms in the lease agreements. In a business combination, the Company assumes the lease classification previously determined by the prior lessee absent a modification, as determined by ASC 840, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Leases &lt;/font&gt;("ASC 840"), in the assumed lease agreement. Payments made under operating leases are accounted for in the Company's consolidated statements of operations as lease expense for actual rent paid plus or minus a straight-line adjustment for estimated minimum lease escalators and amortization of deferred gains in situations where sale-leaseback transactions have occurred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;For communities under capital lease and lease financing obligation arrangements, a liability is established on the Company's consolidated balance sheets representing the present value of the future minimum lease payments and a residual value for financing leases and a corresponding long-term asset is recorded in property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles in the consolidated balance sheets. For capital lease assets, the asset is depreciated over the remaining lease term unless there is a bargain purchase option in which case the asset is depreciated over the useful life. For financing lease assets, the asset is depreciated over the useful life of the asset. Leasehold improvements purchased during the term of the lease are amortized over the shorter of their economic life or the lease term.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;All of the Company's leases contain fixed or formula-based rent escalators. To the extent that the escalator increases are tied to a fixed index or rate, lease payments are accounted for on a straight-line basis over the life of the lease. In addition, all rent-free or rent holiday periods are recognized in lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term, including the rent holiday period.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Sale-leaseback accounting is applied to transactions in which an owned community is sold and leased back from the buyer if certain continuing involvement criteria are met. Under sale-leaseback accounting, the Company removes the community and related liabilities from the consolidated balance sheets. Gain on the sale is deferred and recognized as a reduction of facility lease expense for operating leases and a reduction of interest expense for capital leases.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;For leases in which the Company is involved with the construction of the building, the Company accounts for the lease during the construction period under the provisions of ASC 840.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;If the Company concludes that it has substantively all of the risks of ownership during construction of a leased property and therefore is deemed the owner of the project for accounting purposes, it records an asset and related financing obligation for the amount of total project costs related to construction in progress.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Once construction is complete, the Company considers the requirements under ASC 840-40.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;If the arrangement qualifies for sale-leaseback accounting, the Company removes the assets and related liabilities from the consolidated balance sheets. If the arrangement does not qualify for sale-leaseback accounting, the Company continues to amortize the financing obligation and depreciate the assets over the lease term.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:LeasePolicyTextBlock>
  <!--Leases of Lessor Disclosure [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:LeasesOfLessorDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;11.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Facility Operating Leases&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The following table provides a summary of facility lease expense and the impact of straight-line adjustment and amortization of (above) below market rents and deferred gains (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Three Months Ended&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Cash basis payment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;95,580&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;94,722&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Straight-line expense&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;3,935&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,801&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Amortization of (above) below market rent, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(1,733&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(1,959&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Amortization of deferred gain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(1,093&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(1,093&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Facility lease expense&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;96,689&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;94,471&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:LeasesOfLessorDisclosureTextBlock>
  <!--Legal Matters and Contingencies [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:LegalMattersAndContingenciesTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;9.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Litigation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company has been and is currently involved in litigation and claims incidental to the conduct of its business which are comparable to other companies in the senior living industry. Certain claims and lawsuits allege large damage amounts and may require significant costs to defend and resolve. Similarly, the senior living industry is continuously subject to scrutiny by governmental regulators, which could result in litigation related to regulatory compliance matters. As a result, the Company maintains general liability and professional liability insurance policies in amounts and with coverage and deductibles the Company believes are adequate, based on the nature and risks of its business, historical experience and industry standards. The Company's current policies provide for deductibles for each claim. Accordingly, the Company is, in effect, self-insured for claims that are less than the deductible amounts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:LegalMattersAndContingenciesTextBlock>
  <!--Liabilities, Current-->
  <us-gaap:LiabilitiesCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">840148000</us-gaap:LiabilitiesCurrent>
  <!--Liabilities, Current-->
  <us-gaap:LiabilitiesCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">855915000</us-gaap:LiabilitiesCurrent>
  <!--Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Liabilities-Disposal Group, Held-for-sale, Not Discontinued Operations [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LiabilitiesOfDisposalGroupIncludingDiscontinuedOperation contextRef="c20160331_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_DisposalGroupHeldforsaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">60800000</us-gaap:LiabilitiesOfDisposalGroupIncludingDiscontinuedOperation>
  <!--Liabilities-->
  <us-gaap:Liabilities contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">7569239000</us-gaap:Liabilities>
  <!--Liabilities-->
  <us-gaap:Liabilities contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">7589837000</us-gaap:Liabilities>
  <!--Liabilities and Equity-->
  <us-gaap:LiabilitiesAndStockholdersEquity contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">10048564000</us-gaap:LiabilitiesAndStockholdersEquity>
  <!--Liabilities and Equity-->
  <us-gaap:LiabilitiesAndStockholdersEquity contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">9988672000</us-gaap:LiabilitiesAndStockholdersEquity>
  <!--Quarterly commitment fee-Line of Credit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityUnusedCapacityCommitmentFeePercentage contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LineOfCreditMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="3">0.005</us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityUnusedCapacityCommitmentFeePercentage>
  <!--Credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity-Swingline Line of Credit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity contextRef="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_SwinglineLineOfCreditMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">50000000</us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity>
  <!--Credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity-Term Loan [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity contextRef="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_TermLoanMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">100000000</us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity>
  <!--Credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity-Revolving Credit Facility [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity contextRef="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_RevolvingCreditFacilityMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">400000000</us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity>
  <!--Credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity-Letter of credit sublimit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity contextRef="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LetterOfCreditSublimitMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">50000000</us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity>
  <!--Credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity-Letter of Credit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity contextRef="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LetterOfCreditMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">64500000</us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity>
  <!--Credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity-Option to increase maximum borrowing capacity [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity contextRef="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_OptionToIncreaseMaximumBorrowingCapacityMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">250000000</us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity>
  <!--Credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity-Line of Credit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity contextRef="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LineOfCreditMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">500000000</us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity>
  <!--Description of applicable margin calculation based on utilization percentage-Line of Credit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityInterestRateDescription contextRef="c20160101to20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LineOfCreditMember">Amounts drawn under the facility bear interest at 90-day LIBOR plus an applicable margin from a range of 2.50% to 3.50%. The applicable margin varies based on the percentage of the total commitment drawn, with a 2.50% margin at utilization equal to or lower than 35%, a 3.25% margin at utilization greater than 35% but less than or equal to 50%, and a 3.50% margin at utilization greater than 50%.</us-gaap:LineOfCreditFacilityInterestRateDescription>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Mortgages [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">3329740000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">6122413000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Convertible Debt [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">281902000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Construction Loans [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConstructionLoansMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">24105000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Convertible Debt [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConvertibleDebtMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">285189000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Capital Lease Obligations [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_CapitalLeaseObligationsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2489588000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">6221920000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Capital Lease Obligations [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_CapitalLeaseObligationsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2493210000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Other Notes Payable [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">80305000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Notes Payable, Insurance Premiums [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_UnsecuredDebtMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Construction Loans [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_ConstructionLoansMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">15353000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Notes Payable, Insurance Premiums [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_UnsecuredDebtMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">17677000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Mortgages [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20151231_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_MortgagesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">3246513000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt-Other Notes Payable [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebt contextRef="c20160331_LongtermDebtTypeAxis_NotesPayableOtherPayablesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">80751000</us-gaap:LongTermDebt>
  <!--Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">5886809000</us-gaap:LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations>
  <!--Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">5946259000</us-gaap:LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations>
  <!--Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations, Current-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">275661000</us-gaap:LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent>
  <!--Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations, Current-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">235604000</us-gaap:LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent>
  <!--Long-term Debt, Current Maturities-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebtCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">185642000</us-gaap:LongTermDebtCurrent>
  <!--Long-term Debt, Current Maturities-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebtCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">173454000</us-gaap:LongTermDebtCurrent>
  <!--Long-term Debt, Excluding Current Maturities-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebtNoncurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">3543068000</us-gaap:LongTermDebtNoncurrent>
  <!--Long-term Debt, Excluding Current Maturities-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermDebtNoncurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">3459371000</us-gaap:LongTermDebtNoncurrent>
  <!--Line of credit-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermLineOfCredit contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">310000000</us-gaap:LongTermLineOfCredit>
  <!--Line of credit-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermLineOfCredit contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">210000000</us-gaap:LongTermLineOfCredit>
  <!--Line of credit-Line of Credit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:LongTermLineOfCredit contextRef="c20160331_LineOfCreditFacilityAxis_LineOfCreditMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">210000000</us-gaap:LongTermLineOfCredit>
  <!--Mergers, Acquisitions and Dispositions Disclosures [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:MergersAcquisitionsAndDispositionsDisclosuresTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;4.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Acquisitions and Dispositions&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;2016 Community Dispositions&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company designates communities as held for sale when it is probable that the properties will be sold. If appropriate, the Company records impairment losses and records these assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheet at the lesser of the carrying value and fair value less estimated selling costs. The Company allocates a portion of the goodwill of a reporting unit to the disposal groups if the disposal group constitutes a business. The Company determines the fair value of the communities based primarily on purchase and sale agreements from prospective purchasers (Level 2 input). The Company evaluates the fair value of the assets held for sale each period to determine if it has changed. The long-lived assets are not depreciated while classified as held for sale.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;As of December 31, 2015, the Company identified 17 communities as held for sale. Impairment charges related to communities identified as held for sale as of December 31, 2015 totaled $15.2 million and were recognized as impairment expense in the fourth quarter of 2015 within the Company's condensed consolidated statements of operations. During the three months ended March 31, 2016, the Company recognized $2.6 million of impairment charges related to communities identified as held for sale, primarily due to changes in the estimated fair value of the assets held for sale.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;During the three months ended March 31, 2016, the Company sold seven of the communities previously classified as held for sale for an aggregate selling price of $46.7 million. The Company recorded a $2.7 million net gain on the sale of these communities within the Company's condensed consolidated statement of operations. The results of operations of these communities were previously reported in the Assisted Living&amp;#160;and CCRC-Rental segments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;As of March 31, 2016, $65.9 million was recorded as assets held for sale and $60.8 million of mortgage debt was included in the current portion of long-term debt within the Company's condensed consolidated balance sheet related to the remaining ten communities classified as held for sale. This debt will either be assumed by the prospective purchasers or be repaid with the proceeds from the sales. The sale of these communities is expected to occur in 2016, although there can be no assurance that the transactions will close or if they do, when the actual closing will occur. The results of operations of these communities classified as held for sale are reported in the Assisted Living segment within the condensed consolidated financial statements.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;2015 Community Acquisitions&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;In February 2015, the Company acquired the underlying real estate associated with 15 communities that were previously leased for an aggregate purchase price of $268.6 million. The results of operations of these communities are reported in the Retirement Centers, Assisted Living, and CCRCs &amp;#8211; Rental segments within the condensed consolidated financial statements. The fair value of the communities acquired was determined to approximate $187.2 million. The fair values of the property, plant and equipment of the acquired communities were determined utilizing a direct capitalization method considering stabilized facility operating income and market capitalization rates. These fair value measurements were based on current market conditions as of the acquisition date and are considered Level 3 measurements within the fair value hierarchy. The range of capitalization rates utilized was 6.25% to 8.75%, depending upon the property type, geographical location, and the quality of the respective community. The Company recorded the difference between the amount paid and the estimated fair value of the communities acquired ($76.1 million) as a loss on facility lease termination on the condensed consolidated statement of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2015, which includes the reversal of $5.3 million of deferred lease liabilities associated with the termination of the operating lease agreements. The payment for the termination of the lease agreements has been included within net cash provided by operating activities within the condensed consolidated statement of cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2015.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:MergersAcquisitionsAndDispositionsDisclosuresTextBlock>
  <!--Management fees-->
  <us-gaap:ManagementFeesRevenue contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">16780000</us-gaap:ManagementFeesRevenue>
  <!--Management fees-->
  <us-gaap:ManagementFeesRevenue contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">15097000</us-gaap:ManagementFeesRevenue>
  <!--Noncontrolling Interest-->
  <us-gaap:MinorityInterest contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-203000</us-gaap:MinorityInterest>
  <!--Noncontrolling Interest-->
  <us-gaap:MinorityInterest contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-161000</us-gaap:MinorityInterest>
  <!--Nature of Operations [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:NatureOfOperations contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;1.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Description of Business&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Brookdale Senior Living Inc. ("Brookdale" or the "Company") is the leading operator of senior living communities throughout the United States.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company is committed to providing senior living solutions primarily within properties that are designed, purpose-built and operated to provide the highest quality service, care and living accommodations for residents.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company operates independent living, assisted living and dementia-care communities and continuing care retirement centers ("CCRCs").&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Through its ancillary services programs, the Company also offers a range of outpatient therapy, home health, personalized living and hospice services.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:NatureOfOperations>
  <!--Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities-->
  <us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInFinancingActivities contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">232333000</us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInFinancingActivities>
  <!--Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities-->
  <us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInFinancingActivities contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-13062000</us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInFinancingActivities>
  <!--Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities-->
  <us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInInvestingActivities contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-231291000</us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInInvestingActivities>
  <!--Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities-->
  <us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInInvestingActivities contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-74448000</us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInInvestingActivities>
  <!--Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities-->
  <us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">70343000</us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities>
  <!--Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities-->
  <us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">10057000</us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities>
  <!--Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent-->
  <us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-48775000</us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss>
  <!--Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent-->
  <us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-130451000</us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss>
  <!--Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Noncontrolling Interest-->
  <us-gaap:NetIncomeLossAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-42000</us-gaap:NetIncomeLossAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Noncontrolling Interest-->
  <us-gaap:NetIncomeLossAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-258000</us-gaap:NetIncomeLossAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Intangible Assets Acquired-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionIntangibleAssetsAcquired1 contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-2970000</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionIntangibleAssetsAcquired1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Intangible Assets Acquired-Proceeds from sale of assets, net [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionIntangibleAssetsAcquired1 contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionIntangibleAssetsAcquired1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Intangible Assets Acquired-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionIntangibleAssetsAcquired1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">7300000</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionIntangibleAssetsAcquired1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Intangible Assets Acquired-Proceeds from sale of assets, net [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionIntangibleAssetsAcquired1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-2749000</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionIntangibleAssetsAcquired1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Fixed Assets Acquired-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1 contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-184964000</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Fixed Assets Acquired-Proceeds from sale of assets, net [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1 contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Fixed Assets Acquired-Proceeds from sale of assets, net [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-42714000</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Fixed Assets Acquired-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-19457000</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Fixed Assets Acquired-Additions to property, plant and equipment and leasehold improvements [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1 contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-79129000</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Fixed Assets Acquired-Additions to property, plant and equipment and leasehold improvements [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-79017000</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionFixedAssetsAcquired1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Debt Assumed-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionDebtAssumed1 contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionDebtAssumed1>
  <!--Noncash or Part Noncash Acquisition, Debt Assumed-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionDebtAssumed1 contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-20000000</us-gaap:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionDebtAssumed1>
  <!--Number of reportable segments-->
  <us-gaap:NumberOfReportableSegments contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U006" decimals="INF">5</us-gaap:NumberOfReportableSegments>
  <!--Operating Income (Loss)-->
  <us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">41354000</us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss>
  <!--Operating Income (Loss)-->
  <us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-116873000</us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss>
  <!--Summary of facility operating leases-->
  <us-gaap:OperatingLeasesOfLesseeDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The following table provides a summary of facility lease expense and the impact of straight-line adjustment and amortization of (above) below market rents and deferred gains (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Three Months Ended&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Cash basis payment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;95,580&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;94,722&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Straight-line expense&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;3,935&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,801&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Amortization of (above) below market rent, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(1,733&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(1,959&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Amortization of deferred gain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(1,093&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(1,093&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Facility lease expense&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;96,689&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;94,471&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:OperatingLeasesOfLesseeDisclosureTextBlock>
  <!--Other Assets, Noncurrent-->
  <us-gaap:OtherAssetsNoncurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">259342000</us-gaap:OtherAssetsNoncurrent>
  <!--Other Assets, Noncurrent-->
  <us-gaap:OtherAssetsNoncurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">261612000</us-gaap:OtherAssetsNoncurrent>
  <!--Other Noncash Income (Expense)-->
  <us-gaap:OtherNoncashIncomeExpense contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:OtherNoncashIncomeExpense>
  <!--Other Noncash Income (Expense)-->
  <us-gaap:OtherNoncashIncomeExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-2330000</us-gaap:OtherNoncashIncomeExpense>
  <!--Other Intangible Assets, Net-->
  <us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">119035000</us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet>
  <!--Other Intangible Assets, Net-->
  <us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">129186000</us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet>
  <!--Other Intangible Assets, Net-Community Purchase Options [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_CommunityPurchaseOptionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">40270000</us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet>
  <!--Other Intangible Assets, Net-Community Purchase Options [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_CommunityPurchaseOptionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">32970000</us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet>
  <!--Other Intangible Assets, Net-Tradenames [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_TradeNamesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">11083000</us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet>
  <!--Other Intangible Assets, Net-Other [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_OtherIntangibleAssetsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">8713000</us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet>
  <!--Other Intangible Assets, Net-Health care licenses [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_HealthCareLicensesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">66612000</us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet>
  <!--Other Intangible Assets, Net-Health care licenses [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_HealthCareLicensesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">66612000</us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet>
  <!--Other Intangible Assets, Net-Other [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_OtherIntangibleAssetsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">8370000</us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet>
  <!--Other Intangible Assets, Net-Tradenames [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_TradeNamesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">13591000</us-gaap:OtherIntangibleAssetsNet>
  <!--Other Liabilities, Noncurrent-->
  <us-gaap:OtherLiabilitiesNoncurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">218537000</us-gaap:OtherLiabilitiesNoncurrent>
  <!--Other Liabilities, Noncurrent-->
  <us-gaap:OtherLiabilitiesNoncurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">217292000</us-gaap:OtherLiabilitiesNoncurrent>
  <!--Other Nonoperating Income (Expense)-->
  <us-gaap:OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">7787000</us-gaap:OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense>
  <!--Other Nonoperating Income (Expense)-->
  <us-gaap:OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2491000</us-gaap:OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense>
  <!--Payments for Rent-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsForRent contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-95580000</us-gaap:PaymentsForRent>
  <!--Payments for Rent-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsForRent contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-94722000</us-gaap:PaymentsForRent>
  <!--Payments of Debt Extinguishment Costs-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsOfDebtExtinguishmentCosts contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:PaymentsOfDebtExtinguishmentCosts>
  <!--Payments of Debt Extinguishment Costs-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsOfDebtExtinguishmentCosts contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">44000</us-gaap:PaymentsOfDebtExtinguishmentCosts>
  <!--Payments for (Proceeds from) Other Investing Activities-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsForProceedsFromOtherInvestingActivities contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-2414000</us-gaap:PaymentsForProceedsFromOtherInvestingActivities>
  <!--Payments for (Proceeds from) Other Investing Activities-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsForProceedsFromOtherInvestingActivities contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-740000</us-gaap:PaymentsForProceedsFromOtherInvestingActivities>
  <!--Aggregate purchase price-February 2015 acquisition of 15 communities [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesAndInterestInAffiliates contextRef="c20150201to20150228_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_February2015AcquisitionOf15CommunitiesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">268600000</us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesAndInterestInAffiliates>
  <!--Payments to Acquire Equity Method Investments-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireEquityMethodInvestments contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2365000</us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireEquityMethodInvestments>
  <!--Payments to Acquire Equity Method Investments-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireEquityMethodInvestments contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">3923000</us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireEquityMethodInvestments>
  <!--Payments to Acquire Businesses, Net of Cash Acquired-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesNetOfCashAcquired contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">12157000</us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesNetOfCashAcquired>
  <!--Payments to Acquire Businesses, Net of Cash Acquired-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesNetOfCashAcquired contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">174305000</us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesNetOfCashAcquired>
  <!--Payments to Acquire Property, Plant, and Equipment-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">108510000</us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment>
  <!--Payments to Acquire Property, Plant, and Equipment-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">79129000</us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment>
  <!--Payments of Debt Issuance Costs-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsOfDebtIssuanceCosts contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">818000</us-gaap:PaymentsOfDebtIssuanceCosts>
  <!--Payments of Debt Issuance Costs-->
  <us-gaap:PaymentsOfDebtIssuanceCosts contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1481000</us-gaap:PaymentsOfDebtIssuanceCosts>
  <!--Preferred stock, par value (in dollars per share)-->
  <us-gaap:PreferredStockParOrStatedValuePerShare contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U003" decimals="2">0.01</us-gaap:PreferredStockParOrStatedValuePerShare>
  <!--Preferred stock, par value (in dollars per share)-->
  <us-gaap:PreferredStockParOrStatedValuePerShare contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U003" decimals="2">0.01</us-gaap:PreferredStockParOrStatedValuePerShare>
  <!--Preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 50,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015; no shares issued and outstanding-->
  <us-gaap:PreferredStockValue contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:PreferredStockValue>
  <!--Preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 50,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015; no shares issued and outstanding-->
  <us-gaap:PreferredStockValue contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:PreferredStockValue>
  <!--Preferred stock, shares issued (in shares)-->
  <us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesIssued contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">0</us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesIssued>
  <!--Preferred stock, shares issued (in shares)-->
  <us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesIssued contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">0</us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesIssued>
  <!--Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized-->
  <us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesAuthorized contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">50000000</us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesAuthorized>
  <!--Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized-->
  <us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesAuthorized contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">50000000</us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesAuthorized>
  <!--Preferred stock, shares outstanding (in shares)-->
  <us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesOutstanding contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">0</us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesOutstanding>
  <!--Preferred stock, shares outstanding (in shares)-->
  <us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesOutstanding contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">0</us-gaap:PreferredStockSharesOutstanding>
  <!--Prepaid Expense and Other Assets, Current-->
  <us-gaap:PrepaidExpenseAndOtherAssetsCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">122671000</us-gaap:PrepaidExpenseAndOtherAssetsCurrent>
  <!--Prepaid Expense and Other Assets, Current-->
  <us-gaap:PrepaidExpenseAndOtherAssetsCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">155295000</us-gaap:PrepaidExpenseAndOtherAssetsCurrent>
  <!--Reclassifications-->
  <us-gaap:PriorPeriodReclassificationAdjustmentDescription contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Reclassifications&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;For the three months ended March 31, 2015, $5.3 million was reclassified between general and administrative expense and facility operating expense in the condensed consolidated statements of operations to conform to the current financial statement presentation, with no effect on the Company's consolidated financial position or results of operations. Certain other prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current financial statement presentation, with no effect on the Company's consolidated financial position or results of operations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:PriorPeriodReclassificationAdjustmentDescription>
  <!--Proceeds from debt financing-First Mortgage loan refinanced in March 2016 [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromIssuanceOfDebt contextRef="c20160101to20160331_ExtinguishmentOfDebtAxis_FirstMortgageLoanRefinancedInMarch2016Member" unitRef="U001" decimals="-6">100000000</us-gaap:ProceedsFromIssuanceOfDebt>
  <!--Distributions received from unconsolidated ventures-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromEquityMethodInvestmentDividendsOrDistributionsReturnOfCapital contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1724000</us-gaap:ProceedsFromEquityMethodInvestmentDividendsOrDistributionsReturnOfCapital>
  <!--Distributions received from unconsolidated ventures-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromEquityMethodInvestmentDividendsOrDistributionsReturnOfCapital contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:ProceedsFromEquityMethodInvestmentDividendsOrDistributionsReturnOfCapital>
  <!--Proceeds from (Payments for) Other Financing Activities-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromPaymentsForOtherFinancingActivities contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">716000</us-gaap:ProceedsFromPaymentsForOtherFinancingActivities>
  <!--Proceeds from (Payments for) Other Financing Activities-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromPaymentsForOtherFinancingActivities contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-380000</us-gaap:ProceedsFromPaymentsForOtherFinancingActivities>
  <!--Proceeds from Sales of Business, Affiliate and Productive Assets-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromSalesOfBusinessAffiliateAndProductiveAssets contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">46700000</us-gaap:ProceedsFromSalesOfBusinessAffiliateAndProductiveAssets>
  <!--Proceeds from debt-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromIssuanceOfLongTermDebt contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">85365000</us-gaap:ProceedsFromIssuanceOfLongTermDebt>
  <!--Proceeds from debt-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromIssuanceOfLongTermDebt contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">177370000</us-gaap:ProceedsFromIssuanceOfLongTermDebt>
  <!--Proceeds from line of credit-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromLongTermLinesOfCredit contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">445000000</us-gaap:ProceedsFromLongTermLinesOfCredit>
  <!--Proceeds from line of credit-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromLongTermLinesOfCredit contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">357000000</us-gaap:ProceedsFromLongTermLinesOfCredit>
  <!--Proceeds from Sale of Property, Plant, and Equipment-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromSaleOfPropertyPlantAndEquipment contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">45584000</us-gaap:ProceedsFromSaleOfPropertyPlantAndEquipment>
  <!--Proceeds from Sale of Property, Plant, and Equipment-->
  <us-gaap:ProceedsFromSaleOfPropertyPlantAndEquipment contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:ProceedsFromSaleOfPropertyPlantAndEquipment>
  <!--Net income (loss)-->
  <us-gaap:ProfitLoss contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-130709000</us-gaap:ProfitLoss>
  <!--Net income (loss)-->
  <us-gaap:ProfitLoss contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-48817000</us-gaap:ProfitLoss>
  <!--Net income (loss)-Accumulated Deficit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:ProfitLoss contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_RetainedEarningsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-48775000</us-gaap:ProfitLoss>
  <!--Net income (loss)-Treasury Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:ProfitLoss contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_TreasuryStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:ProfitLoss>
  <!--Net income (loss)-Stockholders' Equity [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:ProfitLoss contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_ParentMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-48775000</us-gaap:ProfitLoss>
  <!--Net income (loss)-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:ProfitLoss contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:ProfitLoss>
  <!--Net income (loss)-Additional Paid-in Capital [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:ProfitLoss contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:ProfitLoss>
  <!--Net income (loss)-Noncontrolling Interest [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:ProfitLoss contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_NoncontrollingInterestMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-42000</us-gaap:ProfitLoss>
  <!--Property, Plant and Equipment [Table Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles, net, which include assets under capital and financing leases, consisted of the following (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;December 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Land&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;486,567&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;486,567&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Buildings and improvements&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;5,312,297&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;5,260,826&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Leasehold improvements&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;114,363&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;100,430&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Furniture and equipment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;935,707&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;895,447&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Resident and leasehold operating intangibles&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;783,434&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;783,434&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Construction in progress&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;121,397&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;138,054&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assets under capital and financing leases&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,921,047&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,909,653&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;10,674,812&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;10,574,411&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Accumulated depreciation and amortization&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(2,670,455&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(2,543,035&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;8,004,357&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;8,031,376&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentTextBlock>
  <!--Property, Plant and Equipment, Net-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentNet contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">8031376000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentNet>
  <!--Property, Plant and Equipment, Net-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentNet contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">8004357000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentNet>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Building and Building Improvements [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_BuildingAndBuildingImprovementsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">5312297000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Construction in Progress [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_ConstructionInProgressMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">121397000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">10674812000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Leasehold Improvements [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_LeaseholdImprovementsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">114363000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Assets Under Capital and Financing Leases [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_AssetsHeldUnderCapitalLeasesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2921047000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Land [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_LandMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">486567000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Resident and leasehold operating intangibles [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_ResidentAndLeaseholdOperatingIntangiblesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">783434000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Assets Under Capital and Financing Leases [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_AssetsHeldUnderCapitalLeasesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2909653000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">10574411000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Land [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_LandMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">486567000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Furniture and Fixtures [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_FurnitureAndFixturesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">895447000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Furniture and Fixtures [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_FurnitureAndFixturesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">935707000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Building and Building Improvements [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_BuildingAndBuildingImprovementsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">5260826000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Resident and leasehold operating intangibles [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20160331_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_ResidentAndLeaseholdOperatingIntangiblesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">783434000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Leasehold Improvements [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_LeaseholdImprovementsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">100430000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles gross-Construction in Progress [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross contextRef="c20151231_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentByTypeAxis_ConstructionInProgressMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">138054000</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentGross>
  <!--Property, Plant and Equipment Disclosure [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;7.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Property, Plant and Equipment and Leasehold Intangibles, Net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles, net, which include assets under capital and financing leases, consisted of the following (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;December 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Land&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;486,567&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;486,567&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Buildings and improvements&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;5,312,297&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;5,260,826&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Leasehold improvements&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;114,363&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;100,430&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Furniture and equipment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;935,707&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;895,447&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Resident and leasehold operating intangibles&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;783,434&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;783,434&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Construction in progress&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;121,397&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;138,054&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assets under capital and financing leases&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,921,047&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,909,653&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;10,674,812&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;10,574,411&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Accumulated depreciation and amortization&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(2,670,455&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(2,543,035&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;8,004,357&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;8,031,376&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Long-lived assets with definite useful lives are depreciated or amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives (or, in certain cases, the shorter of their estimated useful lives or the lease term) and are tested for impairment whenever indicators of impairment arise. The Company determined no impairment was necessary during the three months ended March 31, 2016.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentDisclosureTextBlock>
  <!--Recognition of Deferred Revenue-->
  <us-gaap:RecognitionOfDeferredRevenue contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">926000</us-gaap:RecognitionOfDeferredRevenue>
  <!--Recognition of Deferred Revenue-->
  <us-gaap:RecognitionOfDeferredRevenue contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">767000</us-gaap:RecognitionOfDeferredRevenue>
  <!--Reimbursed costs incurred on behalf of managed communities-->
  <us-gaap:ReimbursementRevenue contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">185228000</us-gaap:ReimbursementRevenue>
  <!--Reimbursed costs incurred on behalf of managed communities-->
  <us-gaap:ReimbursementRevenue contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">180552000</us-gaap:ReimbursementRevenue>
  <!--Repayments of Long-term Lines of Credit-->
  <us-gaap:RepaymentsOfLongTermLinesOfCredit contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">457000000</us-gaap:RepaymentsOfLongTermLinesOfCredit>
  <!--Repayments of Long-term Lines of Credit-->
  <us-gaap:RepaymentsOfLongTermLinesOfCredit contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">245000000</us-gaap:RepaymentsOfLongTermLinesOfCredit>
  <!--Repayments of Long-term Debt, Long-term Capital Lease Obligations, and Capital Securities-->
  <us-gaap:RepaymentsOfLongTermDebtAndCapitalSecurities contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">47555000</us-gaap:RepaymentsOfLongTermDebtAndCapitalSecurities>
  <!--Repayments of Long-term Debt, Long-term Capital Lease Obligations, and Capital Securities-->
  <us-gaap:RepaymentsOfLongTermDebtAndCapitalSecurities contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">84016000</us-gaap:RepaymentsOfLongTermDebtAndCapitalSecurities>
  <!--Repayments of Debt and Capital Lease Obligations-->
  <us-gaap:RepaymentsOfDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">3875000</us-gaap:RepaymentsOfDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations>
  <!--Repayments of Debt and Capital Lease Obligations-->
  <us-gaap:RepaymentsOfDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">4625000</us-gaap:RepaymentsOfDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations>
  <!--Restricted Cash and Investments, Current-->
  <us-gaap:RestrictedCashAndInvestmentsCurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">28645000</us-gaap:RestrictedCashAndInvestmentsCurrent>
  <!--Restricted Cash and Investments, Current-->
  <us-gaap:RestrictedCashAndInvestmentsCurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">32570000</us-gaap:RestrictedCashAndInvestmentsCurrent>
  <!--Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Noncurrent-->
  <us-gaap:RestrictedCashAndCashEquivalentsNoncurrent contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">33382000</us-gaap:RestrictedCashAndCashEquivalentsNoncurrent>
  <!--Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Noncurrent-->
  <us-gaap:RestrictedCashAndCashEquivalentsNoncurrent contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">37235000</us-gaap:RestrictedCashAndCashEquivalentsNoncurrent>
  <!--Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit)-->
  <us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-1565478000</us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit>
  <!--Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit)-->
  <us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-1614253000</us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit>
  <!--Revenue Recognition-->
  <us-gaap:RevenueRecognitionPolicyTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Revenue Recognition&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Resident Fees&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Resident fee revenue is recorded when services are rendered and consists of fees for basic housing, support services and fees associated with additional services such as personalized health and assisted living care. Residency agreements are generally for a term of 30 days to one year, with resident fees billed monthly in advance. Revenue from certain skilled nursing services and ancillary charges is recognized as services are provided, and such fees are billed monthly in arrears.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Management Fees&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Management fee revenue is recorded as services are provided to the owners of the communities. Revenues are determined by an agreed upon percentage of gross revenues (as defined).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Reimbursed Costs Incurred on Behalf of Managed Communities&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company manages certain communities under contracts which provide for payment to the Company of a monthly management fee plus reimbursement of certain operating expenses. Where the Company is the primary obligor with respect to any such operating expenses, the Company recognizes revenue when the goods have been delivered or the service has been rendered and the Company is due reimbursement. Such revenue is included in "reimbursed costs incurred on behalf of managed communities" on the condensed consolidated statements of operations. The related costs are included in "costs incurred on behalf of managed communities" on the condensed consolidated statements of operations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:RevenueRecognitionPolicyTextBlock>
  <!--Revenue-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1247881000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1263156000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-13">169426000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-14">122192000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-Management Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_ManagementServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-15">202008000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-Brookdale Ancillary Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_BrookdaleAncillaryServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-16">115411000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-17">617270000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-CCRCs Rental [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_CcrcsRentalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-18">155991000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-Retirement Centers [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_RetirementCentersMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-19">163486000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-Assisted Living [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_AssistedLivingMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-20">617344000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-Management Services [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20150101to20150331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_ManagementServicesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-21">195649000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Revenue-CCRCs Rental [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:Revenues contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis_CcrcsRentalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3" id="Item-22">152260000</us-gaap:Revenues>
  <!--Supplemental cash flow information-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfCashFlowSupplementalDisclosuresTableTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;(dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Three Months Ended&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Interest paid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;92,270&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;86,732&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Income taxes paid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;246&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;41&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Additions to property, plant and equipment and leasehold improvements&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;79,017&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;79,129&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Accounts payable&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;29,493&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net cash paid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;108,510&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;79,129&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Acquisition of assets, net of related payables and cash received:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Prepaid expenses and other assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(47,225&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;19,457&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;184,964&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Other intangible assets, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(7,300&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,970&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Capital and financing lease obligations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;53,596&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Long-term debt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(20,000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net cash paid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;12,157&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;174,305&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Proceeds from sale of assets:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assets held for sale&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;42,714&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Prepaid expenses and other assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;121&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Gain on sale of assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,749&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Net cash received&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;45,584&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfCashFlowSupplementalDisclosuresTableTextBlock>
  <!--Schedule of Share-based Compensation, Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units Activity [Table Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfSharebasedCompensationRestrictedStockAndRestrictedStockUnitsActivityTableTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Current year grants of restricted stock under the Company's 2014 Omnibus Incentive Plan were as follows (amounts in thousands except for value per share):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Shares Granted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Value Per Share&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Total Value&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 64%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Three months ended March 31, 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,855&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;14.49 &amp;#8211; 18.46&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;41,371&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfSharebasedCompensationRestrictedStockAndRestrictedStockUnitsActivityTableTextBlock>
  <!--Schedule of debt-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfDebtInstrumentsTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Long-term debt and capital and financing lease obligations consist of the following (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;December 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Mortgage notes payable due 2017 through 2047; &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;weighted average interest&lt;/font&gt; rate of 4.58% for&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt; the three months ended March 31, 2016, including net debt premium and deferring financing costs of $1.3 million and $3.3 million at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively (weighted average interest rate of 4.51% in 2015)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;3,329,740&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;3,246,513&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Capital and financing lease obligations payable through 2031; weighted average interest rate of 8.07% &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;fo&lt;/font&gt;r the three months ended March 31, 2016 (weighted average interest rate of 8.11% in 2015)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,493,210&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2,489,588&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Convertible notes payable in aggregate principal amount of $316.3 million, less debt discount and deferred financing costs of $31.1 million and $34.3 million at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively, interest at 2.75% per annum, due June 2018&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;285,189&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;281,902&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Construction financing due 2019 through 2032; weighted average interest rate of 7.76&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;% f&lt;/font&gt;or the three months ended March 31, 2016 (weighted average interest rate of 4.84% in 2015)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;15,353&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;24,105&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Notes payable issued to finance insurance premiums, weighted average interest rate of 2.94% for the three months ended March 31, 2016, due 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;17,677&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Other notes payable, weighted average interest rate of 5.24% for t&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;he three months ended March 31, 2016 (weighted average interest rate of 5.16% in 2015)&lt;/font&gt; and maturity dates ranging from 2016 to 2020&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;80,751&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;80,305&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total debt and capital and financing lease obligations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;6,221,920&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;6,122,413&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Less current portion&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;275,661&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;235,604&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total long-term debt and capital and financing lease obligations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;5,946,259&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;5,886,809&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfDebtInstrumentsTextBlock>
  <!--Summary of changes in the carrying amount of goodwill-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfGoodwillTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The following is a summary of the carrying amount of goodwill as of March 31, 2016 and as of December 31, 2015 presented on an operating segment basis (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="10" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31, 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="10" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;December 31, 2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amount&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Accumulated&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Impairment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;and Other&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Charges&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amount&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Accumulated&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Impairment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;and Other&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Charges&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Retirement Centers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;28,141&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(721&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;27,420&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;28,141&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(721&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;27,420&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assisted Living&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;591,814&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(20,348&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;571,466&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;591,814&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(20,348&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;571,466&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Brookdale Ancillary Services&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;126,810&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;126,810&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;126,810&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;126,810&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;746,765&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(21,069&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;725,696&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;746,765&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(21,069&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;725,696&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfGoodwillTextBlock>
  <!--Schedule of segment reporting information-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfSegmentReportingInformationBySegmentTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The following table sets forth certain segment financial and operating data (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Three Months Ended&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Revenue&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Retirement Centers&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;169,426&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;163,486&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assisted Living&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;617,270&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;617,344&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;CCRCs - Rental&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;152,260&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;155,991&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Brookdale Ancillary Services&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;122,192&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;115,411&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Management Services&lt;sup&gt;(2)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;202,008&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;195,649&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,263,156&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,247,881&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Segment&amp;#160;Operating Income&lt;sup&gt;(3)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Retirement Centers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;74,449&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;70,524&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assisted Living&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;220,810&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;223,506&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;CCRCs - Rental&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;35,469&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;38,571&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Brookdale Ancillary Services&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;14,518&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;22,742&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Management Services&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;16,780&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;15,097&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;362,026&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;370,440&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;General&amp;#160;and administrative (including non-cash stock-based compensation expense)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;92,621&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;89,530&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Transaction costs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;850&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;6,742&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Facility lease expense&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;96,689&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;94,471&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Depreciation and amortization&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;127,137&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;220,427&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Asset impairment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;3,375&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Loss on facility lease termination&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;76,143&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Income (loss) from operations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;41,354&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(116,873&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;As of&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;December 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Retirement Centers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,542,954&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,549,623&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assisted Living&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;6,294,576&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;6,347,178&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;CCRCs - Rental&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,020,500&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,035,371&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Brookdale Ancillary Services&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;288,883&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;292,540&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Corporate and Management Services&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;841,759&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;823,852&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;9,988,672&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;10,048,564&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 18pt; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; align: right;"&gt;(1)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: auto; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;All revenue is earned from external third parties in the United States.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 18pt; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; align: right;"&gt;(2)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: auto; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Management services segment revenue includes reimbursements for which the Company is the primary obligor of costs incurred on behalf of managed communities.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 18pt; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; align: right;"&gt;(3)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: auto; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Segment operating income is defined as segment revenues less segment facility operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfSegmentReportingInformationBySegmentTextBlock>
  <!--Schedule of Variable Interest Entities [Table Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfVariableInterestEntitiesTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The carrying value and classification of the related assets, liabilities and maximum exposure to loss as a result of the Company's involvement with these VIEs are summarized below at March 31, 2016 (in millions):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;VIE Type&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Asset Type&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Maximum Exposure to Loss&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Carrying Amount&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 38%; vertical-align: middle; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;CCRC Venture opco&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 38%; vertical-align: middle; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Investment in unconsolidated ventures&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;179.2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;179.2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 38%; vertical-align: middle; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;RIDEA Ventures&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 38%; vertical-align: middle; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Investment in unconsolidated ventures&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;124.5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;124.5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;As of March 31, 2016, the Company is not required to provide financial support, through a liquidity arrangement or otherwise, to its unconsolidated VIEs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfVariableInterestEntitiesTextBlock>
  <!--Security Deposit Liability-->
  <us-gaap:SecurityDepositLiability contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">4161000</us-gaap:SecurityDepositLiability>
  <!--Security Deposit Liability-->
  <us-gaap:SecurityDepositLiability contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">4387000</us-gaap:SecurityDepositLiability>
  <!--Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:SegmentReportingDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;14.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Segment Information&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;As of March 31, 2016, the Company has five reportable segments:&amp;#160;Retirement Centers; Assisted Living; CCRCs &amp;#8211; Rental; Brookdale Ancillary Services; and Management Services. Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise that engage in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses; for which separate financial information is available; and whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the chief operating decision maker to assess the performance of the individual segment and make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Retirement Centers&lt;/font&gt;.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company's Retirement Centers segment includes owned or leased communities that are primarily designed for middle to upper income seniors generally age 75 and older who desire an upscale residential environment providing the highest quality of service. The majority of the Company's retirement center communities consist of both independent living and assisted living units in a single community, which allows residents to "age-in-place" by providing them with a continuum of senior independent and assisted living services.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Assisted Living.&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company's Assisted Living segment includes owned or leased communities that offer housing and 24-hour assistance with activities of daily life to mid-acuity frail and elderly residents. Assisted living communities include both freestanding, multi-story communities and freestanding single story communities. The Company also operates memory care communities, which are freestanding assisted living communities specially designed for residents with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;CCRCs - Rental.&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company's CCRCs - Rental segment includes large owned or leased communities that offer a variety of living arrangements and services to accommodate all levels of physical ability and health. Most of the Company's CCRCs have independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing available on one campus or within the immediate market, and some also include memory care/Alzheimer's units.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Brookdale Ancillary Services&lt;/font&gt;. The Company's Brookdale Ancillary Services segment includes the outpatient therapy, home health and hospice services provided to residents of many of the Company's communities, to other senior living communities that the Company does not own or operate and to seniors living outside of the Company's communities. The Brookdale Ancillary Services segment does not include the therapy services provided in the Company's skilled nursing units, which are included in the Company's CCRCs - Rental segment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Management Services.&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company's Management Services segment includes communities operated by the Company pursuant to management agreements. In some of the cases, the controlling financial interest in the community is held by third parties and, in other cases, the community is owned in a venture structure in which the Company has an ownership interest. Under the management agreements for these communities, the Company receives management fees as well as reimbursed expenses, which represent the reimbursement of expenses it incurs on behalf of the owners.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The accounting policies of the Company's reportable segments are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies in Note 2.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The following table sets forth certain segment financial and operating data (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Three Months Ended&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Revenue&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Retirement Centers&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;169,426&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;163,486&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assisted Living&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;617,270&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;617,344&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;CCRCs - Rental&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;152,260&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;155,991&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Brookdale Ancillary Services&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;122,192&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;115,411&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Management Services&lt;sup&gt;(2)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;202,008&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;195,649&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,263,156&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,247,881&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Segment&amp;#160;Operating Income&lt;sup&gt;(3)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Retirement Centers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;74,449&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;70,524&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assisted Living&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;220,810&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;223,506&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;CCRCs - Rental&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;35,469&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;38,571&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Brookdale Ancillary Services&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;14,518&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;22,742&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Management Services&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;16,780&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;15,097&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;362,026&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;370,440&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;General&amp;#160;and administrative (including non-cash stock-based compensation expense)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;92,621&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;89,530&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Transaction costs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;850&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;6,742&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Facility lease expense&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;96,689&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;94,471&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Depreciation and amortization&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;127,137&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;220,427&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Asset impairment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;3,375&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Loss on facility lease termination&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;76,143&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Income (loss) from operations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;41,354&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(116,873&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;As of&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;December 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Retirement Centers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,542,954&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,549,623&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Assisted Living&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;6,294,576&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;6,347,178&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;CCRCs - Rental&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,020,500&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;1,035,371&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Brookdale Ancillary Services&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;288,883&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;292,540&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Corporate and Management Services&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;841,759&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;823,852&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 76%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;9,988,672&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;10,048,564&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 18pt; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; align: right;"&gt;(1)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: auto; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;All revenue is earned from external third parties in the United States.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 18pt; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; align: right;"&gt;(2)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: auto; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Management services segment revenue includes reimbursements for which the Company is the primary obligor of costs incurred on behalf of managed communities.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="DSPFListTable" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 18pt; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; align: right;"&gt;(3)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: auto; vertical-align: top; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Segment operating income is defined as segment revenues less segment facility operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:SegmentReportingDisclosureTextBlock>
  <!--Restricted Shares Granted (in shares)-Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsGrantsInPeriod contextRef="c20160101to20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">2855000</us-gaap:ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsGrantsInPeriod>
  <!--Non-cash stock-based compensation expense-->
  <us-gaap:ShareBasedCompensation contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">8873000</us-gaap:ShareBasedCompensation>
  <!--Non-cash stock-based compensation expense-->
  <us-gaap:ShareBasedCompensation contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">9769000</us-gaap:ShareBasedCompensation>
  <!--Significant Accounting Policies [Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:SignificantAccountingPoliciesTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;2.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Summary of Significant Accounting Policies&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Basis of Presentation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") for quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. In the opinion of management, these financial statements include all adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company as of March 31, 2016, and for all periods presented. The condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared on the accrual basis of accounting. All adjustments made have been of a normal and recurring nature. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles have been condensed or omitted. The Company believes that the disclosures included are adequate and provide a fair presentation of interim period results. Interim financial statements are not necessarily indicative of the financial position or operating results for an entire year. It is suggested that these interim financial statements be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and the notes thereto, together with management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations, included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 filed with the SEC on February 12, 2016.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The results of communities and companies acquired are included in the condensed consolidated financial statements from the effective date of the respective acquisition.&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Principles of Consolidation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Brookdale and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. Investments in affiliated companies that the Company does not control, but has the ability to exercise significant influence over governance and operation, are accounted for by the equity method. The ownership interest of consolidated entities not wholly owned by the Company are presented as noncontrolling interests in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements. Noncontrolling interest represents the share of consolidated entities owned by third parties. Noncontrolling interest is adjusted for the noncontrolling holder's share of additional contributions, distributions and the proportionate share of the net income or loss of each respective entity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company continually evaluates its potential variable interest entity ("VIE") relationships under certain criteria as provided for in Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 810, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Consolidation&lt;/font&gt; ("ASC 810").&amp;#160; ASC 810 broadly defines a VIE as an entity in which either (i) the equity investors as a group, if any, lack the power through voting or similar rights to direct the activities of such entity that most significantly impact such entity's economic performance or (ii) the equity investment at risk is insufficient to finance that entity's activities without additional subordinated financial support. The Company identifies the primary beneficiary of a VIE as the enterprise that has both of the following characteristics: (i) the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the entity's economic performance; and (ii) the obligation to absorb losses or receive benefits of the VIE that could potentially be significant to the entity. The Company performs this analysis on an ongoing basis and consolidates any VIEs for which the Company is determined to be the primary beneficiary. Refer to Note 13 for more information about the Company's VIE relationships.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Revenue Recognition&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Resident Fees&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Resident fee revenue is recorded when services are rendered and consists of fees for basic housing, support services and fees associated with additional services such as personalized health and assisted living care. Residency agreements are generally for a term of 30 days to one year, with resident fees billed monthly in advance. Revenue from certain skilled nursing services and ancillary charges is recognized as services are provided, and such fees are billed monthly in arrears.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Management Fees&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Management fee revenue is recorded as services are provided to the owners of the communities. Revenues are determined by an agreed upon percentage of gross revenues (as defined).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Reimbursed Costs Incurred on Behalf of Managed Communities&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company manages certain communities under contracts which provide for payment to the Company of a monthly management fee plus reimbursement of certain operating expenses. Where the Company is the primary obligor with respect to any such operating expenses, the Company recognizes revenue when the goods have been delivered or the service has been rendered and the Company is due reimbursement. Such revenue is included in "reimbursed costs incurred on behalf of managed communities" on the condensed consolidated statements of operations. The related costs are included in "costs incurred on behalf of managed communities" on the condensed consolidated statements of operations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Income Taxes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability approach which requires recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities. A valuation allowance reduces deferred tax assets when it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company has elected the "with-and-without approach" regarding ordering of windfall tax benefits to determine whether the windfall tax benefit did reduce taxes payable in the current year. Under this approach, the windfall tax benefits would be recognized in additional paid-in capital only if an incremental tax benefit is realized after considering all other tax benefits presently available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Fair Value of Financial Instruments&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;ASC 820, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures&lt;/font&gt; establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. The valuation hierarchy is based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability as of the measurement date. Categorization within the valuation hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The three levels are defined as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Level 1 &amp;#8211; Inputs to the valuation methodology are quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Level 2 &amp;#8211; Inputs to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, and inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the financial instrument.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Level 3 &amp;#8211; Inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Cash and cash equivalents and cash and escrow deposits &amp;#8211; restricted are reflected in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets at amounts considered by management to reasonably approximate fair value due to the short maturity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company estimates the fair value of its debt using a discounted cash flow analysis based upon the Company's current borrowing rate for debt with similar maturities and collateral securing the indebtedness. The Company had outstanding debt (including the Company's secured credit facility but excluding capital and financing lease obligations) with a carrying value of approximately $3.9 billion as of both March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, including the Company's secured credit facility. Fair value of the debt approximates carrying value in all periods. The Company's fair value of debt disclosure is classified within Level 2 of the valuation hierarchy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Self-Insurance Liability Accruals&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company is subject to various legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of its business. Although the Company maintains general liability and professional liability insurance policies for its owned, leased and managed communities under a master insurance program, the Company's current policies provide for deductibles for each and every claim. As a result, the Company is, in effect, self-insured for claims that are less than the deductible amounts. In addition, the Company maintains a high deductible workers compensation program and a self-insured employee medical program.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company reviews the adequacy of its accruals related to these liabilities on an ongoing basis, using historical claims, actuarial valuations, third-party administrator estimates, consultants, advice from legal counsel and industry data, and adjusts accruals periodically. Estimated costs related to these self-insurance programs are accrued based on known claims and projected claims incurred but not yet reported. Subsequent changes in actual experience are monitored, and estimates are updated as information becomes available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Community Leases&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company, as lessee, makes a determination with respect to each of its community leases as to whether each should be accounted for as an operating lease or capital lease. The classification criteria is based on estimates regarding the fair value of the leased community, minimum lease payments, effective cost of funds, the economic life of the community and certain other terms in the lease agreements. In a business combination, the Company assumes the lease classification previously determined by the prior lessee absent a modification, as determined by ASC 840, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Leases &lt;/font&gt;("ASC 840"), in the assumed lease agreement. Payments made under operating leases are accounted for in the Company's consolidated statements of operations as lease expense for actual rent paid plus or minus a straight-line adjustment for estimated minimum lease escalators and amortization of deferred gains in situations where sale-leaseback transactions have occurred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;For communities under capital lease and lease financing obligation arrangements, a liability is established on the Company's consolidated balance sheets representing the present value of the future minimum lease payments and a residual value for financing leases and a corresponding long-term asset is recorded in property, plant and equipment and leasehold intangibles in the consolidated balance sheets. For capital lease assets, the asset is depreciated over the remaining lease term unless there is a bargain purchase option in which case the asset is depreciated over the useful life. For financing lease assets, the asset is depreciated over the useful life of the asset. Leasehold improvements purchased during the term of the lease are amortized over the shorter of their economic life or the lease term.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;All of the Company's leases contain fixed or formula-based rent escalators. To the extent that the escalator increases are tied to a fixed index or rate, lease payments are accounted for on a straight-line basis over the life of the lease. In addition, all rent-free or rent holiday periods are recognized in lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term, including the rent holiday period.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;Sale-leaseback accounting is applied to transactions in which an owned community is sold and leased back from the buyer if certain continuing involvement criteria are met. Under sale-leaseback accounting, the Company removes the community and related liabilities from the consolidated balance sheets. Gain on the sale is deferred and recognized as a reduction of facility lease expense for operating leases and a reduction of interest expense for capital leases.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;For leases in which the Company is involved with the construction of the building, the Company accounts for the lease during the construction period under the provisions of ASC 840.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;If the Company concludes that it has substantively all of the risks of ownership during construction of a leased property and therefore is deemed the owner of the project for accounting purposes, it records an asset and related financing obligation for the amount of total project costs related to construction in progress.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Once construction is complete, the Company considers the requirements under ASC 840-40.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;If the arrangement qualifies for sale-leaseback accounting, the Company removes the assets and related liabilities from the consolidated balance sheets. If the arrangement does not qualify for sale-leaseback accounting, the Company continues to amortize the financing obligation and depreciate the assets over the lease term.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;New Accounting Pronouncements&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;In March 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-09, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Compensation-Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting&lt;/font&gt; ("ASU 2016-09"). ASU 2016-09 is intended to simplify the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the accounting for income taxes and forfeitures, as well as the classification of awards and classification on the statement of cash flows. ASU 2016-09 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2016. The Company is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of ASU 2016-09 will have on its condensed consolidated financial statements and disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Leases &lt;/font&gt;("ASU 2016-02"). ASU 2016-02 requires a lessee to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for virtually all leases. ASU 2016-02 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of ASU 2016-02 will have on its condensed consolidated financial statements and disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;In February 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-02, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Consolidation: Amendments to the Consolidation Analysis &lt;/font&gt;("ASU 2015-02"). ASU 2015-02 changes the analysis that a reporting entity must perform to determine whether it should consolidate certain types of legal entities. ASU 2015-02 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. The Company adopted ASU 2015-02 on January 1, 2016, and it did not have a material impact on the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements and disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, &lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic;"&gt;Revenue from Contracts with Customers&lt;/font&gt; ("ASU 2014-09"). ASU 2014-09 affects any entity that either enters into contracts with customers to transfer goods or services or enters into contracts for the transfer of nonfinancial assets. Under ASU 2014-09, an entity will recognize revenue when it transfers promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects what it expects in exchange for the goods or services. The new standard will be effective for the Company beginning on January 1, 2018 and early adoption will be permitted beginning on January 1, 2017. The Company is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of ASU 2014-09 will have on its condensed consolidated financial statements and disclosures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Reclassifications&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;For the three months ended March 31, 2015, $5.3 million was reclassified between general and administrative expense and facility operating expense in the condensed consolidated statements of operations to conform to the current financial statement presentation, with no effect on the Company's consolidated financial position or results of operations. Certain other prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current financial statement presentation, with no effect on the Company's consolidated financial position or results of operations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:SignificantAccountingPoliciesTextBlock>
  <!--Restricted stock, net-Additional Paid-in Capital [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-25000</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures>
  <!--Restricted stock, net-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">25000</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures>
  <!--Restricted stock, net-Accumulated Deficit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_RetainedEarningsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures>
  <!--Restricted stock, net-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures>
  <!--Restricted stock, net-Stockholders' Equity [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_ParentMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures>
  <!--Restricted stock, net-Noncontrolling Interest [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_NoncontrollingInterestMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures>
  <!--Restricted stock, net-Treasury Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_TreasuryStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures>
  <!--Stock Issued During Period, Shares, Other-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesOther contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">-66000</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesOther>
  <!--Restricted stock, net - shares (in shares)-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">2515000</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesRestrictedStockAwardNetOfForfeitures>
  <!--Stock Issued During Period, Value, Share-based Compensation, Gross-Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueShareBasedCompensationGross contextRef="c20160101to20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">41371000</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueShareBasedCompensationGross>
  <!--Issuance of common stock under Associate Stock Purchase Plan - shares (in shares)-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesEmployeeStockPurchasePlans contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">41000</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodSharesEmployeeStockPurchasePlans>
  <!--Issuance of common stock under Associate Stock Purchase Plan-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">582000</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan>
  <!--Issuance of common stock under Associate Stock Purchase Plan-Accumulated Deficit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_RetainedEarningsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan>
  <!--Issuance of common stock under Associate Stock Purchase Plan-Treasury Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_TreasuryStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan>
  <!--Issuance of common stock under Associate Stock Purchase Plan-Additional Paid-in Capital [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">581000</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan>
  <!--Issuance of common stock under Associate Stock Purchase Plan-Stockholders' Equity [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_ParentMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">582000</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan>
  <!--Issuance of common stock under Associate Stock Purchase Plan-Noncontrolling Interest [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_NoncontrollingInterestMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan>
  <!--Issuance of common stock under Associate Stock Purchase Plan-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1000</us-gaap:StockIssuedDuringPeriodValueEmployeeStockPurchasePlan>
  <!--Stockholders' Equity, Other-Treasury Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_TreasuryStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther>
  <!--Stockholders' Equity, Other-Stockholders' Equity [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_ParentMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-828000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther>
  <!--Stockholders' Equity, Other-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-828000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther>
  <!--Stockholders' Equity, Other-Additional Paid-in Capital [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-827000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther>
  <!--Stockholders' Equity, Other-Accumulated Deficit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_RetainedEarningsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther>
  <!--Stockholders' Equity, Other-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-1000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther>
  <!--Stockholders' Equity, Other-Noncontrolling Interest [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther contextRef="c20160101to20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_NoncontrollingInterestMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityOther>
  <!--Total Equity-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2458727000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2419433000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Treasury Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_TreasuryStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-46800000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Stockholders' Equity [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_ParentMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2458888000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Accumulated Deficit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_RetainedEarningsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-1565478000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1883000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Additional Paid-in Capital [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">4069283000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Noncontrolling Interest [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20151231_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_NoncontrollingInterestMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-161000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Treasury Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_TreasuryStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-46800000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Accumulated Deficit [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_RetainedEarningsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-1614253000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Common Stock [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_CommonStockMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1908000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Noncontrolling Interest [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_NoncontrollingInterestMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-203000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Stockholders' Equity [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_ParentMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2419636000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Total Equity-Additional Paid-in Capital [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest contextRef="c20160331_StatementEquityComponentsAxis_AdditionalPaidInCapitalMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">4078781000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest>
  <!--Stockholders' Equity Attributable to Parent-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquity contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2419636000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquity>
  <!--Stockholders' Equity Attributable to Parent-->
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquity contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2458888000</us-gaap:StockholdersEquity>
  <!--Treasury stock, shares (in shares)-->
  <us-gaap:TreasuryStockNumberOfSharesHeld contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">2428401</us-gaap:TreasuryStockNumberOfSharesHeld>
  <!--Treasury stock, shares (in shares)-->
  <us-gaap:TreasuryStockNumberOfSharesHeld contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U002" decimals="0">2428401</us-gaap:TreasuryStockNumberOfSharesHeld>
  <!--Treasury Stock, Value-->
  <us-gaap:TreasuryStockValue contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">46800000</us-gaap:TreasuryStockValue>
  <!--Treasury Stock, Value-->
  <us-gaap:TreasuryStockValue contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">46800000</us-gaap:TreasuryStockValue>
  <!--Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Derivatives-->
  <us-gaap:UnrealizedGainLossOnDerivatives contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-550000</us-gaap:UnrealizedGainLossOnDerivatives>
  <!--Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Derivatives-->
  <us-gaap:UnrealizedGainLossOnDerivatives contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-24000</us-gaap:UnrealizedGainLossOnDerivatives>
  <!--Valuation Allowance, Deferred Tax Asset, Change in Amount-->
  <us-gaap:ValuationAllowanceDeferredTaxAssetChangeInAmount contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">14200000</us-gaap:ValuationAllowanceDeferredTaxAssetChangeInAmount>
  <!--Maximum Exposure to Loss-Variable Interest Entity, Not Primary Beneficiary, Real Estate Company [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:VariableInterestEntityEntityMaximumLossExposureAmount contextRef="c20160331_VariableInterestEntitiesByClassificationOfEntityAxis_VariableInterestEntityNotPrimaryBeneficiaryRealEstateCompanyMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">124500000</us-gaap:VariableInterestEntityEntityMaximumLossExposureAmount>
  <!--Maximum Exposure to Loss-Variable Interest Entity, Not Primary Beneficiary, Operating Company [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:VariableInterestEntityEntityMaximumLossExposureAmount contextRef="c20160331_VariableInterestEntitiesByClassificationOfEntityAxis_VariableInterestEntityNotPrimaryBeneficiaryOperatingCompanyMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">179200000</us-gaap:VariableInterestEntityEntityMaximumLossExposureAmount>
  <!--Carrying Amount-Variable Interest Entity, Not Primary Beneficiary, Real Estate Company [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:VariableInterestEntityNonconsolidatedCarryingAmountAssetsAndLiabilitiesNet contextRef="c20160331_VariableInterestEntitiesByClassificationOfEntityAxis_VariableInterestEntityNotPrimaryBeneficiaryRealEstateCompanyMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">124500000</us-gaap:VariableInterestEntityNonconsolidatedCarryingAmountAssetsAndLiabilitiesNet>
  <!--Carrying Amount-Variable Interest Entity, Not Primary Beneficiary, Operating Company [Member]-->
  <us-gaap:VariableInterestEntityNonconsolidatedCarryingAmountAssetsAndLiabilitiesNet contextRef="c20160331_VariableInterestEntitiesByClassificationOfEntityAxis_VariableInterestEntityNotPrimaryBeneficiaryOperatingCompanyMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">179200000</us-gaap:VariableInterestEntityNonconsolidatedCarryingAmountAssetsAndLiabilitiesNet>
  <!--Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding, Basic and Diluted-->
  <us-gaap:WeightedAverageNumberOfShareOutstandingBasicAndDiluted contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">183678000</us-gaap:WeightedAverageNumberOfShareOutstandingBasicAndDiluted>
  <!--Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding, Basic and Diluted-->
  <us-gaap:WeightedAverageNumberOfShareOutstandingBasicAndDiluted contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U002" decimals="-3">185153000</us-gaap:WeightedAverageNumberOfShareOutstandingBasicAndDiluted>
  <!--Finite and Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets [Table Text Block]-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsTableTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The following is a summary of other intangible assets at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015 (dollars in thousands):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="10" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;March 31, 2016&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="10" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;December 31, 2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amount&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Accumulated&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amortization&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amount&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Accumulated&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Amortization&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-align: center;"&gt;Net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Community purchase options&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;32,970&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;32,970&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;40,270&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;40,270&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Health care licenses&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;66,612&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;66,612&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;66,612&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;66,612&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Trade names&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;27,800&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(16,717&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;11,083&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;27,800&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(14,209&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;13,591&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Other&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;13,531&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(5,161&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;8,370&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;13,531&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(4,818&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;8,713&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 28%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;140,913&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(21,878&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;119,035&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;148,213&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(19,027&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 9%; vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;129,186&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsTableTextBlock>
  <!--Share Based Compensation Shares Value Per Share-Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]-Minimum [Member]-->
  <bkd:ShareBasedCompensationSharesValuePerShare contextRef="c20160101to20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember_RangeAxis_MinimumMember" unitRef="U003" decimals="2">14.49</bkd:ShareBasedCompensationSharesValuePerShare>
  <!--Share Based Compensation Shares Value Per Share-Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]-Maximum [Member]-->
  <bkd:ShareBasedCompensationSharesValuePerShare contextRef="c20160101to20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember_RangeAxis_MaximumMember" unitRef="U003" decimals="2">18.46</bkd:ShareBasedCompensationSharesValuePerShare>
  <!--Stock based compensation, Percentage of estimated forfeitures-Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]-Maximum [Member]-->
  <bkd:StockBasedCompensationPercentageOfEstimatedForfeitures contextRef="c20160101to20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember_RangeAxis_MaximumMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="INF">0.2</bkd:StockBasedCompensationPercentageOfEstimatedForfeitures>
  <!--Stock based compensation, Percentage of estimated forfeitures-Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]-Minimum [Member]-->
  <bkd:StockBasedCompensationPercentageOfEstimatedForfeitures contextRef="c20160101to20160331_AwardTypeAxis_RestrictedStockMember_RangeAxis_MinimumMember" unitRef="U005" decimals="INF">0</bkd:StockBasedCompensationPercentageOfEstimatedForfeitures>
  <!--Finite And Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets Gross-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross contextRef="c20151231" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">148213000</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross>
  <!--Finite And Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets Gross-Community Purchase Options [Member]-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_CommunityPurchaseOptionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">32970000</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross>
  <!--Finite And Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets Gross-Community Purchase Options [Member]-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_CommunityPurchaseOptionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">40270000</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross>
  <!--Finite And Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets Gross-Health care licenses [Member]-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_HealthCareLicensesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">66612000</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross>
  <!--Finite And Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets Gross-Other [Member]-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_OtherIntangibleAssetsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">13531000</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross>
  <!--Finite And Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets Gross-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross contextRef="c20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">140913000</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross>
  <!--Finite And Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets Gross-Other [Member]-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_OtherIntangibleAssetsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">13531000</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross>
  <!--Finite And Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets Gross-Tradenames [Member]-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_TradeNamesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">27800000</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross>
  <!--Finite And Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets Gross-Tradenames [Member]-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross contextRef="c20151231_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_TradeNamesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">27800000</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross>
  <!--Finite And Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets Gross-Health care licenses [Member]-->
  <bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross contextRef="c20160331_IntangibleAssetsByMajorClassAxis_HealthCareLicensesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">66612000</bkd:FiniteAndIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsGross>
  <!--Self-Insurance Liability Accruals [Policy Text Block]-->
  <bkd:SelfInsuranceLiabilityAccrualsPolicyTextBlock contextRef="c20160101to20160331">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Self-Insurance Liability Accruals&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company is subject to various legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of its business. Although the Company maintains general liability and professional liability insurance policies for its owned, leased and managed communities under a master insurance program, the Company's current policies provide for deductibles for each and every claim. As a result, the Company is, in effect, self-insured for claims that are less than the deductible amounts. In addition, the Company maintains a high deductible workers compensation program and a self-insured employee medical program.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;"&gt;The Company reviews the adequacy of its accruals related to these liabilities on an ongoing basis, using historical claims, actuarial valuations, third-party administrator estimates, consultants, advice from legal counsel and industry data, and adjusts accruals periodically. Estimated costs related to these self-insurance programs are accrued based on known claims and projected claims incurred but not yet reported. Subsequent changes in actual experience are monitored, and estimates are updated as information becomes available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</bkd:SelfInsuranceLiabilityAccrualsPolicyTextBlock>
  <!--Term of Residency Agreements Minimum-->
  <bkd:TermOfResidencyAgreementsMinimum contextRef="c20160101to20160331">P30D</bkd:TermOfResidencyAgreementsMinimum>
  <!--Term Of Residency Agreements Maximum-->
  <bkd:TermOfResidencyAgreementsMaximum contextRef="c20160101to20160331">P1Y</bkd:TermOfResidencyAgreementsMaximum>
  <!--Reversal of deferred lease liability-February 2015 acquisition of 15 communities [Member]-->
  <bkd:ReversalOfDeferredLeaseLiability contextRef="c20150201to20150228_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_February2015AcquisitionOf15CommunitiesMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">5300000</bkd:ReversalOfDeferredLeaseLiability>
  <!--Number of communities purchased or sold-->
  <bkd:NumberOfCommunitiesPurchasedOrSold contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U004" decimals="INF">7</bkd:NumberOfCommunitiesPurchasedOrSold>
  <!--Number of communities purchased or sold-Disposal Group, Held-for-sale, Not Discontinued Operations [Member]-->
  <bkd:NumberOfCommunitiesPurchasedOrSold contextRef="c20150101to20151231_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_DisposalGroupHeldforsaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember" unitRef="U004" decimals="INF">17</bkd:NumberOfCommunitiesPurchasedOrSold>
  <!--Number of communities purchased or sold-February 2015 acquisition of 15 communities [Member]-->
  <bkd:NumberOfCommunitiesPurchasedOrSold contextRef="c20150201to20150228_BusinessAcquisitionAxis_February2015AcquisitionOf15CommunitiesMember" unitRef="U004" decimals="INF">15</bkd:NumberOfCommunitiesPurchasedOrSold>
  <!--Amortization Of Deferred Gains From Sale Leaseback Transaction-->
  <bkd:AmortizationOfDeferredGainsFromSaleLeasebackTransaction contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1093000</bkd:AmortizationOfDeferredGainsFromSaleLeasebackTransaction>
  <!--Amortization Of Deferred Gains From Sale Leaseback Transaction-->
  <bkd:AmortizationOfDeferredGainsFromSaleLeasebackTransaction contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">1093000</bkd:AmortizationOfDeferredGainsFromSaleLeasebackTransaction>
  <!--Proceeds From Deferred Entrance Fee Revenue-->
  <bkd:ProceedsFromDeferredEntranceFeeRevenue contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-2455000</bkd:ProceedsFromDeferredEntranceFeeRevenue>
  <!--Proceeds From Deferred Entrance Fee Revenue-->
  <bkd:ProceedsFromDeferredEntranceFeeRevenue contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">-3087000</bkd:ProceedsFromDeferredEntranceFeeRevenue>
  <!--Change In Deferred Lease Liability-->
  <bkd:ChangeInDeferredLeaseLiability contextRef="c20150101to20150331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">2801000</bkd:ChangeInDeferredLeaseLiability>
  <!--Change In Deferred Lease Liability-->
  <bkd:ChangeInDeferredLeaseLiability contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">3935000</bkd:ChangeInDeferredLeaseLiability>
  <!--Debt Instrument Convertible Maximum Number Of Equity Instrument-Convertible Debt Securities [Member]-->
  <bkd:DebtInstrumentConvertibleMaximumNumberOfEquityInstrument contextRef="c20160101to20160331_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareByAntidilutiveSecuritiesAxis_ConvertibleDebtSecuritiesMember" unitRef="U002" decimals="-6">3000000</bkd:DebtInstrumentConvertibleMaximumNumberOfEquityInstrument>
  <!--Acquisition of Assets, Related Payables and Cash Received Net-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">174305000</bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet>
  <!--Acquisition of Assets, Related Payables and Cash Received Net-Proceeds from sale of assets, net [Member]-->
  <bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">45584000</bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet>
  <!--Acquisition of Assets, Related Payables and Cash Received Net-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">12157000</bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet>
  <!--Acquisition of Assets, Related Payables and Cash Received Net-Proceeds from sale of assets, net [Member]-->
  <bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_ProceedsFromSaleOfAssetsNetMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet>
  <!--Acquisition of Assets, Related Payables and Cash Received Net-Additions to property, plant and equipment and leasehold improvements [Member]-->
  <bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">79129000</bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet>
  <!--Acquisition of Assets, Related Payables and Cash Received Net-Additions to property, plant and equipment and leasehold improvements [Member]-->
  <bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_AdditionsToPropertyPlantAndEquipmentAndLeaseholdImprovementsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">108510000</bkd:AcquisitionOfAssetsRelatedPayablesAndCashReceivedNet>
  <!--Noncash Or Part Noncash Acquisition Other Current Assets-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <bkd:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionOtherCurrentAssets contextRef="c20150101to20150331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">47225000</bkd:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionOtherCurrentAssets>
  <!--Noncash Or Part Noncash Acquisition Other Current Assets-Acquisition of Assets, Net of Related Payables and Cash Received [Member]-->
  <bkd:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionOtherCurrentAssets contextRef="c20160101to20160331_NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionsByUniqueDescriptionAxis_SeriesOfIndividuallyImmaterialBusinessAcquisitionsMember" unitRef="U001" decimals="-3">0</bkd:NoncashOrPartNoncashAcquisitionOtherCurrentAssets>
  <!--Number of communities securing mortgage notes-First Mortgage loan refinanced in March 2016 [Member]-->
  <bkd:NumberOfCommunitiesSecuringMortgageNotes contextRef="c20160101to20160331_ExtinguishmentOfDebtAxis_FirstMortgageLoanRefinancedInMarch2016Member" unitRef="U004" decimals="INF">10</bkd:NumberOfCommunitiesSecuringMortgageNotes>
  <!--Gross Deferred Income Tax Expense (Benefit)-->
  <bkd:GrossDeferredIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit contextRef="c20160101to20160331" unitRef="U001" decimals="-5">13200000</bkd:GrossDeferredIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit>
  <link:footnoteLink xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/link" xlink:type="extended">
    <link:footnote xlink:label="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/footnote" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Segment operating income is defined as segment revenues less segment operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization).</link:footnote>
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-1" xlink:label="Item-1_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-1_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-2" xlink:label="Item-2_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-2_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-3" xlink:label="Item-3_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-3_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-4" xlink:label="Item-4_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-4_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-5" xlink:label="Item-5_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-5_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-6" xlink:label="Item-6_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-6_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-7" xlink:label="Item-7_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-7_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-8" xlink:label="Item-8_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-8_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-9" xlink:label="Item-9_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-9_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-10" xlink:label="Item-10_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-10_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-11" xlink:label="Item-11_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-11_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-12" xlink:label="Item-12_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-12_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-1" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:footnote xlink:label="Footnote-Item-2" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/footnote" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">All revenue is earned from external third parties in the United States.</link:footnote>
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-13" xlink:label="Item-13_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-13_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-2" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-14" xlink:label="Item-14_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-14_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-2" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-16" xlink:label="Item-16_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-16_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-2" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-17" xlink:label="Item-17_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-17_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-2" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-18" xlink:label="Item-18_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-18_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-2" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-19" xlink:label="Item-19_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-19_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-2" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-20" xlink:label="Item-20_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-20_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-2" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-22" xlink:label="Item-22_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-22_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-2" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:footnote xlink:label="Footnote-Item-3" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/footnote" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Management services segment revenue includes reimbursements for which the Company is the primary obligor of costs incurred on behalf of managed communities.</link:footnote>
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-15" xlink:label="Item-15_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-15_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-3" xlink:type="arc" />
    <link:loc xlink:href="#Item-21" xlink:label="Item-21_lbl" xlink:type="locator" />
    <link:footnoteArc order="1.0" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/fact-footnote" xlink:from="Item-21_lbl" xlink:to="Footnote-Item-3" xlink:type="arc" />
  </link:footnoteLink>
</xbrl>


