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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-046319"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CTRE"
cik: "0001590717"
company_name: "CareTrust REIT, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:10:42.893235+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CareTrust REIT appoints former CEO Gregory Stapley to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board increased from 5 to 6 directors; Stapley appointed effective Jan 1, 2026.
- Stapley served as CareTrust President/CEO from 2014 to 2022; previously co-founded Ensign Group.
- Stapley to receive $85,000 annual cash retainer and $145,000 restricted stock grant; no committee role.
- Bylaws amended to require compliance with universal proxy rules and enhance advance notice provisions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-046319
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CTRE
- cik: 0001590717
- company_name: CareTrust REIT, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590717/000162828025046319/0001628280-25-046319-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590717/000162828025046319/ctre-20251021.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  CareTrust REIT, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to update advance notice provisions for universal proxy rules, clarify nomination limitations, and make conforming/technical changes (effective 2025-10-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-10-21
  source text: On October 21, 2025 , the Board approved an amendment and restatement of the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (as so amended and restated, the “Bylaws”), which became effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590717/000162828025046319/0001628280-25-046319-index.htm

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