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In the last decade, private equity firms have increasingly invested in assisted living providers and senior communities. This has been done primarily through private equity funds focused on real estate acquisition, including funds managed by firms KKR, Bain Capital, Harrison…
Newly released investigation finds all eleven of the largest firms received grades of “C” or lower, with seven earning failing grades. On November 13, 2023, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project released a first-of-its-kind Private Equity…
First-Ever Scorecard Grades Biggest Private Equity Firms On Labor Practices A new labor scorecard developed by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project underscores a pattern of hazardous or negligent labor practices within the industry. All eleven private equity…
Private equity-backed Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc. is a home healthcare company that has been financially underperforming in recent years under a mountain of debt. It is majority owned by private equity firms Bain Capital and J.H. Whitney Capital Partners,…
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project released a first-of-its-kind data project to track the insurgence of private equity ownership of our nation’s hospitals. The new PESP Private Equity Hospital Tracker provides a current and refreshed list of all private equity-owned hospitals…
PESP’s and United for Respect’s May Day action and Labor Rights platform were featured in an investigative piece by Truthout…
A new report by Moody’s Investors Service has found that healthcare companies in North America are increasingly facing credit rating downgrades and potential defaults, including 34 companies rated B3 negative or lower.[1] PESP has found that 30 of…
A new article by The Imprint dove into the abuse of children in residential treatment centers across the country—facilities that typically house foster children, youth on probation and teens placed by parents. Many…
United for Respect, Private Equity Stakeholder Project, and Americans for Financial Reform today announced that they had sent the below letter to Kohl’s Corporation’s (NYSE: KSS) Board of Directors and Investors. The groups urged the board and…
Kaiser Health News investigated reasons why there is such a shortage of beds available for South Carolina’s children in need of mental health support. A key reason was driven by the profit motive of private equity firms that own the…
Large private equity firms have continued to leave a major economic footprint in the healthcare industry. Since 2009, private equity investment in healthcare has outpaced the rate of private equity investments in general. According to data provider Pitchbook, investment in…
In a new report, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project examines private equity investment in a few key areas: the troubled teen industry, for-profit foster care, services for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), and autism services. See the…
