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A story by Buffalo Business First looked at how private equity funders have become increasingly involved in the healthcare industry, resulting in numerous deals nationwide. Physician practices of various kinds have received investments, leading to a transfer of ownership…
There is a disturbing pattern in Blackstone-owned rental properties in Florida. In at least 33 cases over the last year at properties owned by Blackstone’s single family rental subsidiary Home Partners of America, Blackstone filed to evict the tenant and…
In light of the growing investor interest in healthcare and the risks associated with private equity ownership of healthcare companies, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project is tracking private equity-backed healthcare acquisitions. Below is a list of private equity healthcare…
Marco Fernandez, M.D., president of Midwest Anesthesia Partners, experienced a surprising loss of hospital contracts to private equity-owned anesthesiology groups, leading him to establish the Association for Independent Medicine (AIM) to resist private equity takeovers. Managed Healthcare Executive May 14,…
According to an article by Harold Brubaker in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Crozer Health’s landlord, Medical Properties Trust Inc. (MPT), plans to transform its lease agreement for Crozer’s hospital buildings into a mortgage. Philadelphia Inquirer May 2, 2023: Crozer’s…
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…
A new investigation released by the Private Equity Climate Risks consortium revealed that The Carlyle Group, a private equity titan with $373 billion in assets under management, has been quietly scooping up fossil fuel assets over the past decade, in contradiction…
Private equity investors in healthcare finally face the music as their highly leveraged companies face downgrades and defaults on a large-scale Private equity’s use of debt to fund its healthcare investments is becoming a major liability for its portfolio companies…
Next week, private equity and real estate giant The Blackstone Group will hold its Global Real Estate LP Conference and Global Private Equity LP Conference at the luxurious The Boca Raton resort in Boca Raton, Florida. The resort…
PESP contributed to a CBS 60 Minutes segment on Blackstone’s child labor at its meatpacking plants. CBS 60 Minutes, May 7, 2023: From stakeouts to warrants: How federal investigators found more than 100 children cleaning slaughterhouses…
Fox13 in Utah looked at how some Salt Lake City apartments owned by investment firms and managed by large corporations impose multiple, often unaffordable fees on top of rent in order to generate more income. Fees are a feature of…
PESP’s and United for Respect’s May Day action and Labor Rights platform were featured in an investigative piece by Truthout…
