Industry Trends

If and when the macroeconomic headwinds clear, investments in the healthcare sector should be well-positioned for successful exit opportunities.

Financial performance across the hospital board in 2022 was “awful” and by the second half of calendar 2022, total hospital debt issued was only $9.6 billion and the amount of debt issued in the first half of calendar 2023 fell further to $8.7 billion.

Among the hardest-hit were physician-owned primary care practices, which saw a decrease of more than three FTE support staff roles in the same period.

The firm has $5.8 billion AUM.

Allocations for PE healthcare specialists and VC non-life-sciences healthcare specialists have remained elevated since 2021. By contrast, VC life-sciences managers' fundraising has normalized.

A cyberattack targeted facilities operated across several states by Prospect Medical Holdings, disrupting computer systems and forcing some emergency rooms to shut down and ambulances to be diverted.

Looking at Amazon's moves into other industries, there might be some evidence to suggest that healthcare leaders and professionals need not give up the ship — at least not yet.

M&A activity begs the questions of how targets are identified, what metrics are being taken into account, whether regulatory approval will be granted and how viable the merged systems will be.

Community Health Systems, HCA Healthcare, Tenet Healthcare and Universal Health Services all released second-quarter results in the past several days. CHS reported a net loss.