The Baffler
Margin over Mission: When Private Equity Owns Your Hospital, a new book by former Lovelace Women’s Hospital ICU nurse James Kelly, provides numerous case studies that show just how disastrous private equity’s incursion into health care has been—for patients and workers alike. In April 2015, the Chicago-based real estate investment trust Ventas acquired Lovelace Health System, which owned the Albuquerque hospital James worked at.
