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accession: "0001332349-25-000090"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "BKD"
cik: "0001332349"
company_name: "Brookdale Senior Living Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T23:58:20.342953+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brookdale discloses interim CEO compensation: $85k/month, 158,730 RSUs

## Summary
- Denise W. Warren to receive $85,000 per month as Interim CEO, prorated from April 13, 2025.
- Warren granted 158,730 time-based RSUs vesting on earlier of 1 year, new CEO start, or change-in-control termination.
- Dawn L. Kussow and Chad C. White each get $100,000 special performance bonus.
- Kussow and White's 2025 target annual incentive increased by $250,000 each, subject to performance metrics.
- Compensation approved April 27, 2025; original appointments disclosed in April 14, 2025 8-K.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001332349-25-000090
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: BKD
- cik: 0001332349
- company_name: Brookdale Senior Living Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000090/0001332349-25-000090-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000090/bkd-20250413.htm

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