---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001632970-23-000006"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AHR"
cik: "0001632970"
company_name: "American Healthcare REIT, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-02-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T08:03:31.191571+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# American Healthcare REIT amends bylaws to enforce proxy rules under SEC Rule 14a-19

## Summary
- Stockholders soliciting proxies must use non-white proxy cards; white card reserved for board use.
- Director nominees must be supported by a written undertaking to solicit at least 67% voting power.
- Proxies or votes for a nominee will be disregarded if solicitation abandoned or Rule 14a-19 violated.
- Limits on nominee count; no substitution without compliance with nomination deadlines.
- Virtual meeting provisions updated to reflect Maryland General Corporation Law changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001632970-23-000006
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AHR
- cik: 0001632970
- company_name: American Healthcare REIT, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-02-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1632970/000163297023000006/0001632970-23-000006-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1632970/000163297023000006/gahr-20230217.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  American Healthcare REIT, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to update stockholder meeting provisions for compliance with federal proxy rules, including proxy card color, director nomination information, and Rule 14a-19 compliance (effective 2023-02-17).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-17
  source text: On February 17, 2023, our board of directors, or our Board, approved and adopted amended and restated bylaws, or our Bylaws, to, among other things, update provisions relating to stockholder meetings to ensure compliance with federal proxy rules, including Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. Our Bylaws became effective upon adoption by our Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1632970/000163297023000006/0001632970-23-000006-index.htm

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