MHN unveils new private patient rooms at four hospitals

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – A local university health care system is establishing a new systemwide standard for improving ...
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Patients at private-equity-owned hospitals get more infections and fall more often, says a new study by Harvard researchers

Patients receiving care at hospitals owned by private-equity firms experience more bloodstream and surgical site infections and they fall more often, a new study by academics at Harvard University and ...

Private equity acquisition can expand primary care use by expanding workforce, study finds

When health policy researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health tracked data from primary care practices that ...
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Patients with private insurance can face higher health costs at hospitals

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People with private health insurance might pay higher prices for procedures or tests at a hospital. A report published Monday by ...
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Patient Experience Worsens When Private Equity Firms Acquire US Hospitals

After private equity firms acquire hospitals, the patient care experience starts to suffer, according to US survey data. The proportions of patients who gave a hospital a top rating or said they would ...
Newsday

Long Island hospitals offer more private patient rooms, often at no extra cost

For hospital patients, the privilege of privacy used to be reserved for those willing and able to pay hundreds of dollars a night for single rooms. That’s changing, as hospitals on Long Island convert ...
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Private equity hospital acquisitions linked to worse pulmonary patient outcomes

A large new study presented at the 2026 ATS International Conference shows that patients treated for COPD or pneumonia ...
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Patients with private insurance can face higher health costs at hospitals

People with private health insurance might pay higher prices for procedures or tests at a hospital. A report published Monday by the research group Rand Corp. found that in 2022, the prices hospitals ...