MAITLAND, Fla. — The city of Maitland took another step toward building a brand new library during a special City Council meeting Wednesday. The Maitland City Council voted unanimously to approve the ...

Kindred Hospital North Florida went private in 2021, three years after investors acquired its parent company for more than $4 billion. From the outside, it seemed like nothing had changed. But a ...

Over the past two decades, private equity firms have aggressively acquired health systems, hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, and other health care facilities. This has reshaped the health ...

In the past few years, two major hospital chains have gone bankrupt. First, in March 2024, there was Steward Health Care, which owned 31 hospitals across the country. Then came Prospect, which owned ...

A new study published by Harvard detailing higher patient mortality in private equity (PE) owned hospitals could cause public confidence in the institutions to flatline. (1) Private equity–owned ...

As dignitaries and arts supporters celebrated the expansion of the Maitland Art Center on Thursday morning, Danielle Thomas was reminded of the center’s original name. Founder Jules André Smith first ...

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 ...

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 ...