---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-026209"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DHC"
cik: "0001075415"
company_name: "DIVERSIFIED HEALTHCARE TRUST"
filed_at: "2025-03-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T09:41:48.895881+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Diversified Healthcare Trust elects Alan L. Felder as Independent Trustee

## Summary
- Elected March 20, 2025, term expires at 2025 annual meeting.
- Board expanded from 7 to 8 members; Felder appointed to Audit Committee.
- Felder, 53, most recently Head of Real Estate, Lodging and Leisure, Americas at UBS (2001-2024).
- Entitled to standard independent trustee compensation and will enter an indemnification agreement.
- No family relationships or reportable transactions with the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-026209
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DHC
- cik: 0001075415
- company_name: DIVERSIFIED HEALTHCARE TRUST
- filed_at: 2025-03-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075415/000110465925026209/0001104659-25-026209-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075415/000110465925026209/tm259874d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-026209
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-026209.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-026209.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Alan L. Felder was elected as Independent Trustee at DIVERSIFIED HEALTHCARE TRUST.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Independent Trustee
  source text: On March 20, 2025, pursuant to the recommendation of the Nominating and Governance Committee, our Board of Trustees, or the Board, elected Alan L. Felder as an Independent Trustee with a term to expire at our 2025 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075415/000110465925026209/0001104659-25-026209-index.htm

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