---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001332349-25-000081"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKD"
cik: "0001332349"
company_name: "Brookdale Senior Living Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T06:52:29.467211+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brookdale appoints Joshua Hausman to board; Bumstead not seeking re-election

## Summary
- Joshua Hausman appointed independent director effective April 24, 2025; former Onex Managing Director with 20+ years healthcare investing experience.
- Frank Bumstead will not stand for re-election at 2025 annual meeting, reducing board size to eight directors.
- With Hausman and recent Fioravanti appointment, board average tenure will be less than four years after annual meeting.
- Hausman currently Managing Partner at MHJ Capital Partners; also serves on boards of Newport Healthcare and SCP Health.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001332349-25-000081
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKD
- cik: 0001332349
- company_name: Brookdale Senior Living Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000081/0001332349-25-000081-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000081/bkd-20250424.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001332349-25-000081
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001332349-25-000081.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001332349-25-000081.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joshua Hausman was appointed as Director at Brookdale Senior Living Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Joshua Hausman to the Board to fill the resulting vacancy, effective April 24, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000081/0001332349-25-000081-index.htm
- Executive change
  Frank M. Bumstead departed as Director at Brookdale Senior Living Inc..
  - Action: not standing for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: Frank M. Bumstead, a member of the Board, has informed the Board that he will not stand for re-election at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000081/0001332349-25-000081-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.