Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Sloan Bowman of Goldman Sachs.
Sloan Bowman - Goldman Sachs
Just first a question on growth initiatives. You spoke a little bit about, particularly in the home health how you have gone outside of your network. I think it’s in nine markets. With regard to acquisitions or potential acquisitions going forward, would you expand outside or is it still trying to build on the network that you have right now?
Bill Sherif
Well, we will certainly be trying to build on our network that we have, but we will be trying to acquire home health agencies in markets where we have a strong presence, but it most likely is more (Inaudible) are going to be in (Inaudible), the size of those acquisitions will be larger. We are expanding our home health activity outside our communities in those nine markets demonstrating our ability to take and manage that outside business. Primarily, we're following our discharges from our skilled nursing. Also the networking of referral sources that support us and that is going well and we think that we will be able to demonstrate that we can operate a model outside of our own walls and through that, also we'll get that license or capability to deploy our program within our communities in those markets.
Sloan Bowman - Goldman Sachs
Okay. But even outside of home health just with regard to new facilities, can you maybe give us a sense of what the opportunity you said is out there in particularly maybe with assets, either with difficulty and refinancing, we've seen a couple of deals happen in the couple of months. Are there a number of other opportunities out there like that?
Bill Sheriff
We think there will begin into these more that will emerge and I think you characterized it correctly and the fact that they most likely will be associated with organizations that have some degree of challenge with their capital structure, debt maturities or abilities to refinance. On the longer-term there will be more on the other fundamentals of our position as a consolidator.
Sloan Bowman - Goldman Sachs
And then with regard to just the Sunrise acquisition, is there any assumption for initial CapEx that you're going to have to spend with that facility or those facilities?
Bill Sheriff
We will probably disclose any more of that detail post the acquisition and as we get the final call assessment of those assets.
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