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Issuer:     Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (BKD)
CIK:        0001332349
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-07-15T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001332349-25-000120
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 5.02, 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Brookdale defeats proxy contest by Ortelius at annual meeting; all eight company nominees elected
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- 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).

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000120/0001332349-25-000120-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000120/bkd-20250711.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001332349-25-000120

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