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Grow the practice. Keep the doctors in charge.
Orthopaedic Solutions Management pools the machinery of running an orthopedic practice while keeping clinical control with physicians. Its wager: independence gets stronger when the back office gets bigger.
The Nursing-Home Healthcare Company That Put the Clinic on Wheels
Aria Care Partners built a national business by taking four easily neglected specialties to residents who are difficult to transport. The clever bit is not the van - it is the paperwork, insurance, scheduling, and follow-up wrapped around the visit.
The Vein Clinic Nobody Thought About - Until It Built 130 Locations
Center for Vein Restoration turned an overlooked corner of medicine into a national outpatient network. Its playbook is less about a miracle device than a repeatable system: specialist doctors, local clinics, centralized support, and procedures that send patients home the same day.
How Smile Design Turned Three Dental Chairs Into a 60-Office Florida Machine
Mili and Sachin Patel started with three operatories in Dade City. Two decades, 60 practices and one Heartland Dental deal later, their most useful invention may be the operating system behind the drills.
The Buyers' Club Keeping Cancer Clinics Independent
How a group-buying network built by former pharma executives quietly became the largest independent community-oncology network in the country - and why staying small and independent is the whole point.
BayPine Is Buying the Businesses Tech Forgot
The Boston private-equity firm sees outdated software as unfinished business. Its wager is that better systems, cleaner data and practical AI can make established companies grow differently.
The Healthcare Buyout Firm That Counts Minutes in the Waiting Room
Regal Healthcare Capital Partners has raised nearly $1.3 billion by treating healthcare’s unglamorous details - staffing, scheduling, dashboards and provider incentives - as the machinery of growth.
The Oral Surgeons Who Bought the Private-Equity Playbook - Then Gave Themselves the Board Seats
Most consolidators buy a practice and hand the surgeon a paycheck. Allied OMS handed them the boardroom instead - and built a national oral-surgery platform around who signs the votes.
The Squash Court Startup Quietly Rolling Up America's Med-Spas
Two Harvard MBAs sketched a med-spa roll-up between squash matches. Six years later, Aesthetic Partners runs the back office for 20-plus clinics - and lets every founder keep their name on the door.
The Beauty Roll-Up That Refuses to Erase the Name on the Door
United Aesthetics Alliance is assembling a national network of plastic surgery practices and medical spas without turning them into a single chain. Its wager is that shared capital, recruiting, marketing, and technology can scale - while clinical judgment and local reputations stay local.
The Firm That Buys Boring and Sells Big
For 40-plus years, DFW Capital Partners has made its money on the companies nobody puts on a magazine cover - fleet washers, infusion clinics, surgical centers - and turned quiet cash flow into a $2 billion track record.
The $83 Million Fund That Turned Healthcare Operators Into a Sales Force
HC9 Ventures built its pitch around a simple diagnosis: healthcare startups rarely fail for lack of software alone. They fail in the maze between a promising product and the institutions that must buy, trust, and deploy it.
The Private Equity Firm That Refuses to Fire the Founder
For 40 years, RLH Equity Partners has bet on a contrarian idea in private equity: that the founder is the asset, not the problem. Here is how a $1.2 billion Los Angeles firm turned 'high touch meets high tech' into a portfolio worth $4.2 billion in exits.
The Company Behind 80 Million Lunches - and Almost Everything Around Them
Sodexo does not sell lunch so much as certainty. Across 43 countries, it turns meals, maintenance, cleaning, energy and hospitality into one repeatable service - the quiet machinery behind 80 million daily experiences.
HCA Healthcare Built a Hospital Network Big Enough to Learn From Itself
The Nashville company turned a 1968 experiment in shared hospital resources into a vast care network. Its real edge is what happens when local medicine, centralized operations and 47 million annual patient encounters begin teaching one another.
Peloton Capital Management
Peloton Capital Management is betting that the best middle-market businesses need a longer runway, not a faster flip. Its founder-first model has turned patient capital into an 11-company portfolio across healthcare, financial and consumer services.
UnitedHealth Group
UnitedHealth Group has built a vast loop around American health care - paying claims, delivering care, managing prescriptions and supplying the data beneath it all. The same integration that gives it unusual reach also puts every friction point under a brighter light.
Chuck Kruger
Chuck Kruger is the President and CEO of Foresight Mental Health, a Berkeley-based outpatient behavioral health provider he took over in April 2025 with a mandate to make the company self-sustaining and profitable. A Stanford-trained operator with more than 25 years building private-equity-backed healthcare services companies, he previously ran Akeso Occupational Health, launched and scaled Dignity Health GoHealth Urgent Care into San Francisco's largest urgent care network, and integrated more than 125 outpatient clinics over a decade at Physical Rehabilitation Network. His brand of leadership is unglamorous on purpose: run the basics well, deliver care from the first visit to the last, and make the math work.
Bristol Hospice
Bristol Hospice is a Salt Lake City-based provider of hospice and palliative care that has grown from a single Utah location in 2006 into a national operator running roughly 78-80 locations across 25 states. Backed by private equity firm Webster Equity Partners, it offers adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care, and specialty comfort programs for dementia, respiratory disease, sleep, and veterans, with a mission centered on compassion, respect, and 'a reverence for life.'