Real Estate Obligations in a Healthcare Services Company Crisis: Immediate Full-Scale Disposal, or First Triage Time-Bound, Stoppable Assets and Obligations?

Minerva judgment

Prioritize a time-bound, stoppable triage of asset use, obligations, and operational dependencies as the first batch of actions; since cash runway, termination costs, legal conditions, and critical service dependencies have not been verified, the irreversible risk of full-scale disposal is too high at this scale (1,700 locations / 46,000 employees)

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Human-controlled next action

Require the finance and real estate teams to submit, within a set deadline, a cash runway analysis, a near-term obligation maturity schedule, and a preliminary checklist of termination costs/legal conditions per asset, as the basis for the first batch of triage actions

What would reverse the recommendation

If concrete cash runway and obligation maturity data (U1) become available and show the runway is ample and far exceeds the time needed for triage, the triage sequencing plan should be maintained; conversely, if the runway evidence shows urgency, parallel disposal of verified safe assets (excluding those subject to the legal restrictions or critical service dependencies noted in F5) should begin immediately, rather than insisting on completing the full triage first

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Alvarez & Marsal · Case Study: HealthSouth

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