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ABOUT DON

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Donald Kivowitz was the Founder and Chairman of Regency Post-Acute Healthcare System, which managed a conglomerate of over 120 limited partnerships and corporations. The organization was active in owning, building and managing post-acute healthcare facilities, acquisition of real estate and staff development. Within 25 years, Kivowitz opened 33 postacute healthcare and rehabilitation facilities across Texas with 4,200 beds and more than 4,000 employees.

 

Prior to founding Regency Post-Acute Healthcare System, Kivowitz was in the real estate investment development and syndication of real estate involved with shopping centers, office spaces and apartment complexes as well as employed by NCH Corporation, a New York stock exchange company from 1969 through 1980.

 

Since the sale of his company, Mr. Kivowitz has purchased skilled nursing facilities in Texas, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexcio, and Pennsylvania, with approximately 750,000 sq. ft. of building, strictly as a landlord. Kivowitz graduated in 1968 from Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration.

Subsequently, Mr. Kivowitz has made significant successful investments in the cannabis, home health, hospice and behavioral care industries. 

Both Mr. and Mrs. Kovowitz are actively involved in many philanthropic activities such as animal welfare, feeding the hungry, educating inspiring college students and the visual and performance arts. 

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A Dallas company has sold almost three dozen Texas skilled nursing facilities in one of the largest such sales in recent years. Regency Post-Acute Healthcare System, headed by businessman Donald Kivowitz, sold the statewide portfolio to Capital Senior Ventures of Baltimore in a deal negotiated by Marcus & Millichap.

DALLAS – Regency Post-Acute Healthcare System, a Dallas firm led by Donald Kivowitz, has sold a portfolio of 33 skilled nursing facilities in Texas. “The transaction is the largest seniors housing sale on record in Texas,” said the Marcus & Millichap real estate firm. 

A pair of Dallas investors Chuck Putnam and Donald Kivowitz acquired 10 nursing homes in the northeast as part of a $185 million deal announced Tuesday. BOK Financial, which is based in Tulsa, Okla., has committed more than $2 billion in healthcare loans for a portfolio that increased 17 percent last year, second only to its energy lending business.

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