Effective January 25, 2016, Brookdale Senior Living Inc. promoted Dawn Kussow to Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. Ms. Kussow most recently served as the company's Vice President Corporate Controller since August 2015 and, prior to that, Vice President Financial Reporting since February 2014. Ms. Kussow assumed the responsibilities of principal accounting officer from Kristin Ferge, who served as Executive Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer.

Ms. Ferge chose to transition to a new role focusing on the company's service alignment, pricing and other corporate initiatives. Ms. Ferge's transition and Ms. Kussow's promotion are part of an ongoing organizational assessment conducted in connection with the changes to the company's executive leadership team announced on November 2, 2015.