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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…
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…
Industry publication The Chemical Engineer published a look into the greenlighting of a potentially climate-harming Sempra Infrastructure LNG project in Port Arthur, Texas. The Chemical Engineer April…
Last month, Washington Monthly published a story looking closely at safety net hospitals and the private equity firms that own these facilities. Washington Monthly March 24, 2023: Private Equity and Its Hospitals…
In a new, exclusive piece, the Guardian covered the recently released PESP report “PE Profits from Destroying the Atlanta Forest.” The Guardian investigation focused…
PESP Healthcare Director Eileen O’Grady joined Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Crooked Media’s America Dissected podcast to talk about private equity and public health. Eileen spoke about the trends seen with private equity investment in healthcare, especially the trend of purchasing…
The Lever reported on how public officials have been using the retirement savings of unionized teachers, firefighters, and police officers to capitalize — and help Wall Street executives profit from — an outsourcing business that has used low-paid immigrants…
Reuters reported how corporate investors “piled into the U.S. property market during the COVID-19 pandemic, in part as many smaller landlords were hit hard by non-payment from tenants who were protected by eviction moratoria.” See: Reuters; The…
Asking the question, “What does it mean when your family’s home is owned by a private equity firm?” Next City Executive Director Lucas Grindley talked with housing correspondent Roshan Abraham about his reporting on Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia (IX),…
