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Panthers agree to terms with running back AJ Dillon
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Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends.
A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets.
Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses.
The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits.
A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days.
Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive.
The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away.
The investing angle nobody talks about.
Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in.
Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies.
The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates.
Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try.
(a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)
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@UnderdogNFL @FarabaughFB We got it circled too, bitch! Charles Johnson is going to do the Yukozuna special on you after he tackles you for a loss
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Rico Dowdle said his game against the Panthers this year is "definitely circled for sure."
via @FarabaughFB
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We're excited to induct our Basketball Hall of Fame class on Friday, which will feature one (new) video presentation. Linn-Mar grad and 2026 selection Marcus Paige is an assistant coach with @UNC_Basketball, which sent along a special message 🩵🤍
🏀iahsaa.org/basketball-202…
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@DukeFansZone I thought you were weird already, this kinda seals it. Go get some fresh air dude
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@Kemp0605 @dukebluesamurai Lol couldn't agree more but you're better off debating a brick than a Dook fan
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@dukebluesamurai When you have nba players it certainly helps.. if he coached at Mississippi state you think he would have done as well with different players?
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According to fans of opposing schools he can’t coach. He was just born on 3rd base
Duke Men’s Basketball@DukeMBB
EASY CHOICE. Congrats Coach Scheyer!
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@Sam_Vecenie @jdotbonk Sam, youre debating the most unreasonable fans. You won't ever win this argument with these homers
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@jdotbonk yes it's me, person who literally does a ton of film breakdowns every week on players, the analytics junkie.
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@TheJeremyDavid What do you mean all of a sudden? We bash Dookies because you've had generational talent after generational talent and have nothing to show for it.
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@s_andymoore @Pants287 Shall we start posting the Dook fouls that aren't called either? Seems like you guys like whine and cry about every single little thing
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@dombknowing @DanUgglaEnjoyer @PocsikWill @Johnhenson31 Good job going 3-0 against UNC with 5 NBA players. Generational talent goes a long way...too bad it didnt take you to the championship game
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@dombknowing @DanUgglaEnjoyer @PocsikWill @Johnhenson31 Yea I'm only talking about one of most defining moments of the Dook/UNC rivalry. Neither of our squads have won a championship in a while, even though ours is more recent. You want to compare elite 8s since 2017 which seems kinda silly.
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@SL3005SL @DanUgglaEnjoyer @PocsikWill @Johnhenson31 You keep only talking about a single game 😂 oh wait you went on to choke the biggest lead in national title history that next game 😂😂😂
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@dombknowing @DanUgglaEnjoyer @PocsikWill @Johnhenson31 Ok then fast forward 3-4 weeks and talk about Coach K's final game :)
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@dombknowing @DanUgglaEnjoyer @PocsikWill @Johnhenson31 Agreed..while we're at it, maybe when your HoF coach has his farewell game, you're a favourite by 10+ points, and invite all of the Dook alumni to the game to celebrate the game...you probably shouldn't lose that game by 10+ points
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@SL3005SL @DanUgglaEnjoyer @PocsikWill @Johnhenson31 Or if you’re preseason number one you should atleast make it to the NCAA tourney. Agree?
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@dombknowing @DanUgglaEnjoyer @PocsikWill @Johnhenson31 Yea like there should be a standard if you have 5 NBA players (including 3 top-10 picks), you should make it to the championship game. I agree with you for once
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@SL3005SL @DanUgglaEnjoyer @PocsikWill @Johnhenson31 I’m saying there should be a standard and making one elite 8 in 7 years… about to be 8 is pitiful
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@dombknowing @DanUgglaEnjoyer @PocsikWill @Johnhenson31 You're bragging about making more elite 8s . Weird flex
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@DanUgglaEnjoyer @PocsikWill @Johnhenson31 Bragging about losses in a national title is certainly a choice. Especially when one is the largest blown lead in national title history
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