Business and Growth

Entrepreneur and avid business developer, Danny Shabat owns and operates a number of highly diverse businesses primarily in and around the Chicago area where he has lived since 1977. After spending time working in a Chicago nursing home and learning the business from the ground up, Danny Shabat bought his first nursing home facility. Subsequently, he became the owner of two additional health care companies focusing his business acumen on this rapidly growing industry.

Daniel Shabat’s purchases include Royal Gardens Nursing Home. Under his leadership, this facility became The Waterford, a nursing and rehabilitation center located near Lake Michigan on Chicago’s Far North Side. Operated as a family-owned establishment for the last 25 years, The Waterford provides exceptional delivery of nursing home services. Shabat also bought and transformed Senn Park Nursing Home into Heritage Nursing Home Inc., a facility offering nursing care to senior citizens needing extended care for various levels of disabilities. His current holdings also included a third facility, the Diplomat Nursing Home.

Danny Shabat also enjoys the success of other entrepreneurial and investment ventures. He recently brokered the sale of a mobile health care business, LifeCare Ambulances, Inc. Another of his businesses, LifeScan Laboratory, Inc., a northern Illinois business opened in 1996, provides comprehensive, professional laboratory services to doctors, hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and other health care agencies.  Other companies Shabat holds ownership in include Shabat Investments, LLC, PharMore Drugs, LLC, DSFA, Inc., and SFMA, Inc. Additionally, Danny Shabat invested in the Edison, New Jersey-based Micro Innovations Corp. This company, founded in Illinois in 1992, manufactures and distributes computer accessories to large retailers at value prices. Digital Innovations, LLC, acquired the business in 2009.

An international business traveler, Daniel Shabat grew up in Washington, D.C., but spent his late teens and early adulthood years in New York. During this time, he earned a diploma from Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and pursued advanced-level studies at Brooklyn College, a senior college of the City University of New York. During his early career, he gained business experience in the food and catering industry. He also spent two years employed by New York Telephone Company before relocating to Chicago.