Who owns the dentists and eye doctors in Hemet, CA?

Which Hemet practices are private equity backed, corporate-owned or owned by their own clinicians, with the group and a source for each label.

• 55 dental practices: 6 PE-backed or lender-controlled (11%), 6 corporate-owned and 41 with no known PE ties.
• 13 eye care practices: 0 PE-backed (0%), 3 corporate-owned and 9 with no known PE ties.

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Hemet dentists

PE-backed 5 PE-backed, now lender-controlled 1 Not PE, corporate-owned 6 Not confirmed 2 No known PE ties 41

11% of Hemet’s dental practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above California as a whole (4%) and the US (7%).

The largest group is PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services), owned by its founder, Stephen E. Thorne IV rather than a PE firm, with 6 of the 55 dental practices here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Hemet Dental (Smile Brands).

Groups here: PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services) (6) · Smile Brands (4) · U.S. Oral Surgery Management (USOSM) (2) · West Coast Dental (1) · Sonrava Health (1)

Hemet eye doctors

Not PE, corporate-owned 3 Not confirmed 1 No known PE ties 9

The largest group is National Vision Holdings, owned by public shareholders (NASDAQ: EYE) rather than a PE firm, with 2 of the 13 eye care practices here.

Groups here: National Vision Holdings (2) · MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services) (1) · LensCrafters (1)

Every listed practice in Hemet

† From an individual dentist’s or doctor’s NPI record; it may not be an open office.

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“No known PE ties” means we found none, not that we proved there are none. Labels describe ownership, not quality of care. How we label · Report a correction