Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Private Equity: Investors as Managers -- Chapter 2. Institutional Change and the Emergence of Private Equity -- Chapter 3. The Business Model: How Private Equity Makes Money -- Chapter 4. The...

The long-term financial stability of hospital systems represents a “grand challenge” in health care. New ownership forms, such as private equity (PE), promise to achieve better financial performance than nonprofit or for-profit systems. In this study, we compare two systems with many...