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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001332349-25-000120"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKD"
cik: "0001332349"
company_name: "Brookdale Senior Living Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T06:27:28.904340+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brookdale defeats proxy contest by Ortelius at annual meeting; all eight company nominees elected

## Summary
- Director Frank M. Bumstead's term expired at July 11, 2025 annual meeting; he did not stand for re-election, no disagreement.
- Eight company nominees elected; Ortelius nominees received fewer votes (e.g., Steven L. Vick got 74.8M for vs 124.7M withheld).
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 174.3M for, 15.0M against, 10.2M abstentions (87% of votes cast).
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for 2025 approved: 195.1M for, 2.3M against, 2.6M abstentions (98.8% of votes cast).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001332349-25-000120
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKD
- cik: 0001332349
- company_name: Brookdale Senior Living Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000120/0001332349-25-000120-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000120/bkd-20250711.htm

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