Good morning, and welcome to the Diversified Healthcare Trust First Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Matt Murphy, Manager of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning. Joining me on today's call are Chris Bilotto, President and Chief Executive Officer; Matt Brown, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer; and Anthony Paula, Vice President. Today's call includes a presentation by management, followed by a question-and-answer session with sell-side analysts. Please note that the recording and retransmission of today's conference call is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of the company. Today's conference call contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other securities laws. These forward-looking statements are based upon DHC's beliefs and expectations as of today, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to the forward-looking statements made in today's conference call other than through filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. In addition, this call may contain non-GAAP numbers, including normalized funds from operations or normalized FFO, net operating income or NOI and cash basis net operating income or cash basis NOI. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to net income is available in our financial results package, which can be found on our website at www.dhcreit.com. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause those differences is contained in our filings with the SEC. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements. And finally, we will be providing guidance on this call, including NOI. We are not providing a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures as part of our guidance, because certain information required for such reconciliation is not available without unreasonable efforts or at all, such as gains and losses or impairment charges related to the disposition of real estate. With that, I would now like to turn the call over to Chris.

Thank you, Matt, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our call. I will begin by providing a high-level review of DHC's solid first quarter results, as well as an update to the progress and timing of our key strategic initiatives. Then Anthony will provide more detail regarding our first quarter financials and CapEx. And finally, Matt will review our liquidity and financing activities before providing an update on our 2025 guidance. After the market closed yesterday, DHC reported total revenues of $386.9 million for the first quarter, which was a 4% increase over last year. Adjusted EBITDAre was $75.1 million, up 17% year-over-year and normalized FFO was $14.3 million or $0.06 per share, both of which exceeded the analyst consensus estimate. In addition to these solid year-over-year results, we have made significant progress so far in 2025, addressing our upcoming debt maturities while also delevering the balance sheet through the completion of $332 million in asset sales. Turning first to our SHOP sector performance. DHC experienced a meaningful improvement within its SHOP segment as same-property NOI came in at $38.4 million, a 33.6% increase sequentially and a 42.1% increase year-over-year. On a consolidated basis, average monthly rate increased 4.8% year-over-year and occupancy increased 130 basis points to 80.2%, resulting in a 6.5% increase in SHOP revenue. Importantly, SHOP NOI margin improved 320 basis points year-over-year to 11.2% on a consolidated basis and to 12.9% on a same-property basis. In addition, our 115 same-property 5-star managed communities posted an NOI margin of 14.6%. The RevPOR increased year-over-year by 4.8%, primarily driven by annual rate increases, substantial increases in show care level pricing and a reduction in discounts and concessions at fully occupied properties. Expense for increased by 2% due to merit increases in filling open positions, offset by a…

Thank you, Chris, and good morning, everyone. Same-property cash basis NOI was $71.5 million, representing a 20.7% increase year-over-year and 14.8% increase sequentially. These increases were primarily driven by strong results in our SHOP segment, which delivered $38.4 million in same-property NOI, driven by a 4.8% increase in average monthly rate year-over-year and 3.1% sequentially. And occupancy of 80.2%, which was a 130 basis point increase year-over-year and 20 basis point increase sequentially. This resulted in revenue growth of 6.5% and margin expansion of 320 basis points year-over-year. Our SHOP unlike for the first quarter was favorably impacted by $2.7 million of proceeds from a business interruption claim of one of our communities in Florida. Turning to G&A expense. The first quarter amounted $2.4 million of business management incentive fee as our total return exceeded the benchmark as of March 31st, 2025. An incentive amendment be incurred will not be until January 2026. Excluding the impact of the incentive management fees, G&A expense would have been $6.6 million for the quarter. During the quarter, we invested approximately $32 million of capital, including $27 million in our SHOP communities and $5 million in our medical office and life science portfolio. Our first quarter spend is consistent with our expectations, and therefore, we are reforming our 2025 CapEx guidance of $150 million to $170 million at this time. Now, I'll turn the call over to Matt.

Thanks Anthony and good morning everyone. We ended the quarter with approximately $300 million of unrestricted cash, including the $140 million we received from the financing completed on March 31st. We subsequently paid down our June 2025 bonds in April with that $140 million. The $140 million financing is secured by 14 senior living communities has a three-year term and two one-year extension options. The financing is interest only for two years, has options to extend the interest-only period subject to meeting certain conditions and has a floating rate of SOFR plus 250 basis points capped at 7%. In addition to this financing, in April, we closed on a $108.9 million financing secured by seven senior living communities. This mortgage was financed through Freddie Mac with a 10-year term and a fixed interest rate of 6.22% with interest-only payments for five years. We are pleased with the valuations of these properties as they represent an aggregate valuation of approximately $181,000 per unit. In April, we provided notice to redeem an additional $140 million of our 2025 senior notes in May, leaving $100 million outstanding after this latest repayment. Pro forma for this additional $140 million paydown, we have approximately $120 million of cash on hand. We have two executed term sheets with lenders for aggregate proceeds of approximately $94 million, which will be secured by six senior living communities. We expect these financings to close in May and are confident that proceeds from these financings along with cash on hand, will address our bonds due in June. With our June 2025 bond maturity addressed as noted above, we have turned our focus to proactively addressing our January 2026 zero-coupon bond. As Chris noted, we have sold 22 properties that were collateral to our zero coupon bond and used net proceeds…

Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Our first question will come from Justin Haasbeek with RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Yeah. Thanks for taking the question. It looks like during the seasonally weak quarter for the industry, occupancy was up 20 bps sequentially for the entire SHOP versus down 40 bps sequentially this time last year. Can you just provide some color on the occupancy gains for the first quarter?

Yes. Occupancy in general has improved for a variety of different reasons. I think kind of more specifically, as we've worked through the last couple of years with investing capital in our communities, certainly getting the benefit of that more broadly speaking, across the US. And I think we should expect to see more of that as we go into 2025, having completed an additional 23 refreshes in Q1. And so one part is just overall kind of operations and the managers focusing on certain initiatives to drive occupancy is the capital and then kind of just being positioned appropriately within the markets to drive overall improvement.

Okay. And can you provide some color on the AlerisLife dividend? Is this a one-time payment? Or could DHC continue to receive future dividends like this?

I would say for modeling purposes, this was more of a one-time dividend that we received for our 34% interest based off some strategic actions that Aleris has taken. They are performing well with positive EBITDA. So there's potential for dividends in the future, but I wouldn't think at this time were of the magnitude of what we saw in February.

Okay. And then on the SHOP results, the -- if you annualize the NOI for the current quarter, it's significantly above the top end of your range for SHOP -- so for the full year SHOP guide. Just wondering if there's any reasoning behind not increasing the guidance that you guys expect something that we -- that in the future quarters that we don't know about? Or any color there would be great.

Look, we've come out of the gate strong beginning 2025. We're very pleased with our NOI performance in the first quarter. As we noted, we did have some business interruption proceeds of $2.7 million that was favorably impacting NOI in the quarter. So that needs to be stripped out from a run rate basis. We are trending to the high end of our guidance. We do get the benefit in the first quarter of fewer days in the quarter that helps with salaries and benefits. That normalizes as we go out through the year. So look, we're very pleased, we do have a lot of dispositions that are in flux. And as we get more clarity on the timing of those dispositions, we're hopeful we'll be in a position to increase our guidance as early as the second quarter.

That’s it for me. Thank you very much.

[Operator Instructions] Our next question will come from John Massocca with B. Riley. Please go ahead.

Good morning. Maybe kind of building on that last question. You were able to keep your SHOP property operating expenses. You're pretty flat. Anything specific there to call out anything onetime-ish beyond the favorable kind of day mix versus 4Q? Just kind of curious what's going on there.

Yes. So sequentially, operating expenses in SHOP were flat on a year-over-year basis, they're up about 3%. We would expect for 2025 our expenses to trend above 3% higher than where we were in 2024. We have spoken previously about savings in our insurance premiums from our policy that resets on July 1 of each year. So we are -- we've been seeing a benefit of that since the third quarter of 2024, but nothing really material onetime that would impact that.

And then on the CapEx front, anything notable to call out there? Just thinking, obviously, seasonally 2Q, 3Q tend to be the highest. Is that guidance kind of reaffirmed? And is there anything maybe that can potentially drive savings there for the remainder of the year?

John, good morning. This is Anthony. So Chris, certainly, you're right, most of our spend tends to be weighted towards the second half of the year. Last year, I believe, roughly two-thirds of our spend came in the second half. So that's why we're reaffirming our guidance at this time. So we're in line with what we expected through the first quarter. But as announced we’re ready to tell, we can make any changes just based off disposition timing or whatnot, so reaffirming what we've previously guided towards.

Okay. And then on the debt front, what are you expecting in terms of pricing maybe on the $94 million, but even beyond that as you look to address the zero coupons kind of half with financing?

Yeah. So on this first phase of financing, we spoke last quarter of a weighted average interest rate of about 6.5%. And I would say, give or take, that's pretty close for once we complete this $94 million, which we're very pleased with given we're paying off 9.75% debt. So it's extremely accretive for us. As we look forward to any partial financing for the repayment of the 2026s, it's too early to really tell just because there's a lot of different options we have with financing given our large unencumbered balance sheet. But I would say pricing is probably below 7% for any financing we were to do on a secured basis.

Yeah. And I would just add to that, too, and we talked about it. We have a significant amount of dispositions that we've talked about. We've added new dispositions to the market of non-core, MOB and life science properties. And so I think more specifically, as we're able to look forward to transact over the next several quarters, that's going to have a meaningful favorable impact to further reducing those 2026. And so what we're luck with at the end is going to be kind of a smaller tranche of financing with what we believe to be a good quality portfolio of remaining encumbered properties within that debt tranche.

Okay. Any thoughts on timing for the financing to address the 2026s. Is that going to come a couple of months -- in the coming months? Or is that something that maybe is closer to year-end?

I think a lot of the dispositions are going to happen in the second half of the year, some more back weighted and financing is probably beginning of the fourth quarter rather than waiting till the end of the maturity in January.

Okay. That’s it for me. I appreciate all the color. Thank you.

With no further questions, this will conclude our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Chris Bilotto, President and Chief Executive Officer, for any closing remarks.

Yeah. Thank you for joining our call today. We look forward to seeing many of you at the upcoming NAREIT conference in June. Institutional investors should contact our Investor Relations if you'd like to schedule a meeting with management. Thank you.

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.