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Private Equity Health Care Acquisitions – September 2022 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 will be tracking private equity-backed healthcare…
Private equity increasing investment in travel nursing, even among national nursing shortages New report exposes private equity’s profit-seeking tactics in medical staffing A new report, “Profiting in Crisis: Exploring Private Equity’s…
In 2021, Warburg Pincus-owned company Allied Universal acquired G4S, a global security firm with a significant prison and detention business. On August 1, 2022, Allied Universal completed its acquisition…
Gentrification is a nation-wide problem that is only being exacerbated by collaborations between private equity firms and large developers. Through buying large properties, private equity firms push out small businesses and families who have lived in communities for…
Prospect Closures and Layoffs are Legacy of Private Equity Ownership Prospect Medical Holdings, a hospital chain that owned 17 hospitals in 5 states, has been under fire recently for causing irreparable harm to communities and workers…
With the uptick in travel nursing since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been record levels of private equity activity in the medical staffing space. With this in mind, PESP healthcare researcher Mary Bugbee authored…
PESP and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) released the Private Equity Climate Risks Scorecard which provides first-of-its-kind research and analysis of eight private equity firms with some of the largest energy…
How Private Equity Makes Us Sicker Tuesday, October 18, 7:30-9:00 PM via Zoom Join by phone or computer. Closed captions in English will be available. A recording will be distributed to all registrants following…
The Carlyle Group’s ties to prominent cultural and academic institutions have been under fire due to the firm’s extensive investments in fossil fuels. The firm ranked last…
PESP healthcare researcher Eileen O’Grady was featured in a story about Prospect Medical Holdings by Philadelphia PBS affiliate WHYY. Prospect Medical Holdings is currently being scrutinized as it…
On September 2, 2022, JAMA Network published a research study[1] examining the association of private equity acquisition of physician practices with changes in health care spending and utilization. The researchers looked at 578 private equity-acquired dermatology,…
After private equity firm Capital Realty bought an age-restricted affordable housing complex, its “residents are facing huge rent hikes, potentially more than doubling what they must pay now, leaving elected officials and advocates to untangle a…
