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Politicians in Ohio’s General Assembly are seeking to challenge corporate landlord consolidation and give Ohioans a better shot at affordable housing with new legislation. Introduced in the Ohio’s Senate Ways and Means Committee in March by Sen. Lou W. Blessing,…
Along with new reports on the climate risks private equity firms pose with their fossil fuels investments, PESP strives to be a resource to institutional investors whose capital is used to fund these energy acquisitions. The Private Equity Climate…
Private equity firm TA Associates has entered into a definitive agreement to invest in revenue cycle management (RCM) company Alpha II. Alpha II specializes in RCM and offers a unique rules engine that detects coding errors, leading to accurate reimbursement…
On May 15, 2023, KKR-owned Envision Healthcare filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.[1] Looking at the Chief Transformation Officer’s declaration filed concurrently with Envision’s bankruptcy petition, one might think that Envision was an underdog up against the Goliathan COVID-19…
A recent investigation by Vice looks at how “large corporate landlords—including private equity, real estate investment trusts and hedge funds” have begun to “put more resources into multifamily and single family homes” since the 2008 real estate crash and the…
Since December 2022, Atlanta-area officials have charged 42 people with domestic terrorism for protesting the construction of Cop City, a police training facility that would sit on 85 acres…
Private equity giant Blackstone continues to face bad press due to a Department of Labor investigation that revealed widespread child labor at Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI), which the firm acquired in 2018. While Blackstone and PSSI frame child labor as…
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…
