1. Organization and Description of Business Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, Inc., a Maryland corporation, was incorporated on January 11, 2013 and therefore, we consider that our date of inception. We were initially capitalized on January 15, 2013 . We invest in a diversified portfolio of real estate properties, focusing primarily on medical office buildings, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, senior housing and other healthcare-related facilities. We also operate healthcare-related facilities utilizing the structure permitted by the REIT Investment Diversification and Empowerment Act of 2007, which is commonly referred to as a RIDEA structure (the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, authorizing the RIDEA structure were enacted as part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008). We also originate and acquire secured loans and may also originate and acquire other real estate-related investments on an infrequent and opportunistic basis. We generally seek investments that produce current income. We qualified to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, under the Code for federal income tax purposes beginning with our taxable year ended December 31, 2014 , and we intend to continue to qualify to be taxed as a REIT. On February 26, 2014, we commenced a best efforts initial public offering, or our initial offering, in which we offered to the public up to $1,900,000,000 in shares of our common stock. As of April 22, 2015, the deregistration date of our initial offering, we had received and accepted subscriptions in our initial offering for 184,930,598 shares of our common stock, or $1,842,618,000 , excluding shares of our common stock issued pursuant to our initial distribution reinvestment plan, or the Initial DRIP. As of April 22, 2015, a total of $18,511,000 in distributions were reinvested that resulted in 1,948,563 shares of our common stock being issued pursuant to the Initial DRIP. See Note 13, Equity  Common Stock, for a further discussion. On March 25, 2015, we filed a Registration Statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, to register a maximum of $250,000,000 of additional shares of our common stock to be issued pursuant to the Initial DRIP, or the 2015 DRIP Offering. We commenced offering shares pursuant to the 2015 DRIP Offering following the deregistration of our initial offering. Effective October 5, 2016, we amended and restated the Initial DRIP, or the Amended and Restated DRIP, to amend the price at which shares of our common stock are issued pursuant to the 2015 DRIP Offering. We continued to offer shares of our common stock pursuant to the 2015 DRIP Offering until the termination and deregistration of such offering on March 29, 2019. As of March 29, 2019, a total of $245,396,000 in distributions were reinvested that resulted in 26,386,545 shares of common stock being issued pursuant to the 2015 DRIP Offering. On January 30, 2019, we filed a Registration Statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act to register a maximum of $200,000,000 of additional shares of our common stock to be issued pursuant to the Amended and Restated DRIP, or the 2019 DRIP Offering; however, we did not commence offering shares pursuant to the 2019 DRIP Offering until April 1, 2019, following the deregistration of the 2015 DRIP Offering. We collectively refer to the Initial DRIP portion of our initial offering, the 2015 DRIP Offering and the 2019 DRIP Offering as our DRIP Offerings. See Note 13, Equity  Distribution Reinvestment Plan, for a further discussion. We conduct substantially all of our operations through Griffin-Am erican Healthcare REIT III Holdings, LP, or our operating partnership. We are externally advised by Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III Advisor, LLC, or Griffin-American Advisor, or our advisor, pursuant to an advisory agreement, or the Advisory Agreement, between us and our advisor. The Advisory Agreement was effective as of February 26, 2014 and had a one -year term, subject to successive one -year renewals upon the mutual consent of the parties. The Advisory Agreement was last renewed pursuant to the mutual consent of the parties on February 13, 2019 and expires on February 26, 2020. Our advisor uses its best efforts, subject to the oversight, review and approval of our board of directors, or our board, to, am ong other things, research, identify, review and make investments in and dispositions of properties and securities on our behalf consistent with our investment policies and objectives. Our advisor performs its duties and responsibilities under the Advisory Agreement as our fiduciary. Our a dvisor is 75.0% owned and managed by American Healthcare Investors, LLC, or American Healthcare Investors, and 25.0% owned by a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffin Capital Company, LLC, or Griffin Capital, or collectively, our co-sponsors. American Healthcare Investors is 47.1% owned by AHI Group Holdings, LLC, or AHI Group Holdings, 45.1% indirectly owned by Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), or Colony Capital, and 7.8% owned by James F. Flaherty III, a former partner of Colony Capital. We are not affiliated with Griffin Capital, Griffin Capital Securities, LLC, the dealer manager for our initial offering, or our dealer manager, Colony Capital or Mr. Flaherty; however, we are affiliated with Griffin-American Advisor, American Healthcare Investors and AHI Group Holdings. We currently operate through six reportable business segments: medical office buildings, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, senior housing, senior housing  RIDEA and integrated senior health campuses. As of March 31, 2019 , we owned and/or operated 98 properties, comprising 102 buildings, and 113 integrated senior health campuses including completed development projects, or approximately 13,412,000 square feet of gross leasable area, or GLA, for an aggregate contract purchase price of $2,967,409,000 . In addition, as of March 31, 2019 , we had invested $89,079,000 in real estate-related investments, net of principal repayments.