But efforts to replace the old facility — a cramped, aging building from the 1970s that was planned by an architect who designed prisons — appear to have hit a roadblock. An architectural firm hired ...

The recent announcement of steep health insurance premium increases for 2026 is a shocking confirmation of the failure of the ...

A private pool under construction in the front yard of a Maitland home is causing concern from some neighbors.

Patient care experiences worsened after private equity firms took over hospitals, according to a difference-in-differences analysis. From 2008 to 2019, the percentage of patients rating hospitals a 9 ...

Emergency department (ED) mortality rose, and transfers from the ED and the ICU increased in the wake of a facility’s private equity (PE) acquisition, a new study shows. Researchers from the ...

Research led by Dr. Zirui Song of Harvard Medical School published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, September 2025, has delivered one of the clearest warnings yet about the dangers of private ...

After acquisition, private equity hospitals significantly reduced emergency department and intensive care unit salary expenditures and staffing relative to control hospitals. Medicare beneficiaries in ...

For centuries, market competition has been the driving force behind historic advances in technology and production. Innovations like industrial farming and assembly-line manufacturing signaled a major ...

A recent nationwide study has uncovered troubling trends in patient mortality rates within U.S. hospitals acquired by private equity firms. Conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, the ...

There has been a surge in recent years of private equity groups buying hospitals throughout the U.S., and emerging evidence suggests this may have unintended consequences. Following a hospital’s ...

After hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency departments rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals, according to research published this week in Annals ...