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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001332349-23-000082"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKD"
cik: "0001332349"
company_name: "Brookdale Senior Living Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T20:57:28.077279+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brookdale Senior Living stockholders elect all director nominees and approve advisory votes on compensation and auditor

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected with majority votes; highest vote count was 143.1M for Wielansky.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 141.1M for, 3.1M against, 88,698 abstentions.
- Stockholders selected 'every year' frequency for future advisory votes on executive compensation (140.3M for 1 year).
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor for 2023 approved with 150.8M votes for.
- Board adopted annual advisory vote on executive compensation consistent with stockholder preference.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001332349-23-000082
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKD
- cik: 0001332349
- company_name: Brookdale Senior Living Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234923000082/0001332349-23-000082-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234923000082/bkd-20230620.htm

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