"Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals" was the headline of a New York Times article looking at the findings of "a major study of the effects of such acquisitions on patient care in recent years" published in the December issue of JAMA. The paper was also written up in USA Today, MarketWatch, Common Dreams, and The Harvard Gazette.
"This is a big deal," Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told Times reporters Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz. "It's the first piece of data that I think pretty strongly suggests that there is a quality problem when private equity takes over."
