Lancaster Pollard helps health care, senior living, affordable housing and private education organizations expand and improve their services by providing financial advice and financing solutions. Lancaster Pollard’s services enable hospitals, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, rural housing properties and private schools to develop the financial plans and secure the funding necessary to continue to serve their communities and lets them focus on what’s truly important –their residents, their patients, and their students.
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Helping You Understand Your Options
Lancaster Pollard professionals are available to speak on a wide variety of topics.

Please contact our public relations department to find out more, or to arrange for one of our sessions at your next event.

Mike Ashley
Vice President
Lancaster Pollard
Physical Evolution, Financial Liberty: Making your Financing take you where you need to go

Senior living providers have multiple financing options to effectuate a refinance, acquisition, or fund capital improvements and new construction. Mr. Ashley outlines the various options, explains current market forces affecting senior living finance, and reviews case studies of how different financing mechanisms have been successfully utilized across the country.

Aug 25, 2008
Missouri Health Care Association
Branson, Mo.
BIO
Mike Ashley specializes in providing financial advisory and capital funding solutions to health care, housing and senior living organizations in the Central States. He has a thorough understanding of and experience with both federal and conventional financing structures.


Tanya Hahn
Managing Director
Lancaster Pollard & Co.
Upswings, Downturns, the Yield Curve and You

Fluctuating market factors can create opportunities to borrow where once there were none, and can change a promising financing option into an inefficient one. Ms. Hahn explains market factors, including the yield curve and  investor sentiment, and reviews the current financing environment for nonprofit senior living borrowers.

Oct. 13, 2008
American Association of Homes & Services for the Aging
Philadelphia, Penn.
BIO
Ms. Hahn has more than 25 years of experience in auditing, accounting, investment management, investment banking and information technology. She has underwritten more than $1 billion in health care, education, housing revenue and government general obligation bonds.


Gerald Swiacki
Senior Vice President
Lancaster Pollard & Co.
Moving Beyond Affordable Housing Preservation

Preservation can bring a property up to par, but low-income communities often strive to be better than "good enough." Mr. Swiacki joins Louis Prues of Lutheran Social Services of Michigan to explain how one Section 202 affordable senior living property stretched its limited resources - using smart design elements, financial planning and tax credits to renovate both the building and the property's financial health.

Oct. 15, 2008
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
Philadelphia, Penn.
BIO
Mr. Swiacki manages the Atlanta office and oversees the Southeast. He helps senior living and health care providers access capital for expansions. A licensed attorney, he was in-house counsel to a development company before focusing on investment banking.


William Wilson
Senior Vice President
Lancaster Pollard & Co.
The True Costs of Developing Household Projects

Mr. Wilson joins Luella Janzen of Parkside Homes in exploring ways to obtain and repay the funds necessary to deinstitutionalize long-term care settings. They will examine financial expectations from development through financing daily operations, as well as strategies for addressing household-type projects that fail to meet financial expectations.

Oct. 14, 2008
American Association of Homes & Services for the Aging
Philadelphia, Penn.
BIO
Mr. Wilson assists clients with bond financings, mortgage placements, facility acquisitions and asset divestitures. He assisted with Medicare, Medicaid and Department of Housing and Urban Development issues as a congressional aide in the U.S. House of Representatives.