• Community Health Systems
  • HCA
  • Bon Secours Health System
  • St. Luke's Health System
  • Tenet Healthcare Corporation
  • Ohio Health
  • United States Social Security Administration
  • United States Department Of Veteran's Affairs
  • Baptist Health Systems
  • Neuterra Healthcare
  • HealthSouth Corporation
  • LabCorp
  • Serologicals Corporation
  • Symbion ARC
  • United States Food And Drug Administration
  • United States General Services Administration
  • AmSurg Corporation

The success or failure of a healthcare institution’s strategic plan relies on its ability to successfully and efficiently deploy hospital resources. Accordingly, healthcare executives are more carefully evaluating cash reserves and utilization of debt capacity. Healthcare industry dynamics, such as industry consolidation, managed care, continuing technological enhancements, physician alliances, new delivery networks, and increased emphasis on outpatient care have heightened demands for fresh sources of capital.

The Sanders Trust offers leading institutions such capital through the acquisition of income-producing real estate properties related to the delivery of health-care services, including medical office buildings, physician clinics, ambulatory care centers, surgery centers, and hospital parking garages.

Hospitals and physician clinics that monetize their real estate assets through such a sale leaseback structure allocate these funds to more mission-oriented purposes or to higher-yielding liquid assets, while maintaining operational control of the facility and enhancing capital flexibility.

President. He subsequently founded The Sanders Trust in 1997. Mr. Sanders is a recognized leader in the investment community for healthcare clients, both not-for-profit and publicly-traded, including:

  • National Medical Enterprises
  • American Medical International
  • MedPartners
  • Columbia/HCA Healthcare
  • OrNda Healthcare
  • Physicians Resource Group
  • Medical Care International
  • Health Midwest

 Clients (that have previously reorganized) included:


"In many cases, real estate represents an underutilized source of capital to be reinvested in operations or converted into a cushion of cash... and effective management of real estate assets can help cut costs, build returns and achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace."
Modern Healthcare, recent article



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The Sanders Trust, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company that owns, acquires, develops, and manages strategic healthcare properties throughout the United States. The Company applies sound investment principles focused primarily on the outpatient sector of the healthcare industry.

The Sanders Trust, founded by President and CEO Rance M. Sanders, maintains a conservative, low operating-risk profile in executing its investment strategy. Its acquisitions typically include long-term net leases on well-located, outpatient-related facilities.

Mr. Sanders' twenty plus years experience in real estate includes the acquisition, development, and management of almost one hundred healthcare properties, valued at several hundred million dollars. In 1989, he and partner Bart Starr (former Green Bay Packer, Hall of Fame Quarterback) created Starr Sanders Properties where Mr. Sanders served as