Who owns the dentists, eye doctors and vets in Murrieta, CA?

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

• 93 dental practices: 7 PE-backed or lender-controlled (8%), 12 corporate-owned and 72 with no known PE ties.
• 25 eye care practices: 2 PE-backed (8%), 3 corporate-owned and 18 with no known PE ties.
• 6 locations of the vet chains we track: 3 PE-backed and 3 corporate-owned.

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Murrieta dentists

PE-backed 5 PE-backed, now lender-controlled 2 Not PE, corporate-owned 12 Not confirmed 2 No known PE ties 72

8% of Murrieta’s dental practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above California as a whole (4%) and about the same as 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 12 of the 93 dental practices here.

Groups here: PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services) (12) · Smile Brands (4) · U.S. Oral Surgery Management (USOSM) (2) · InterDent (1) · West Coast Dental (1) · Sonrava Health (1)

Murrieta eye doctors

PE-backed 2 Not PE, corporate-owned 3 Not confirmed 2 No known PE ties 18

8% of Murrieta’s eye care practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above California as a whole (3%) and the US (6%).

The largest group is National Vision Holdings, owned by public shareholders (NASDAQ: EYE) rather than a PE firm, with 2 of the 25 eye care practices here.

Groups here: National Vision Holdings (2) · MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services) (2) · NVISION Eye Centers (1) · Unifeye Vision Partners (UVP) (1) · Target Optical (1)

Murrieta vets

PE-backed 3 Not PE, corporate-owned 3

The largest group is VCA Animal Hospitals, owned by Mars Veterinary Health rather than a PE firm, with 2 of the 6 chain locations here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: SoCal Pet Hospital (Mission Pet Health).

Groups here: VCA Animal Hospitals (2) · Animal Dermatology Group (ADG) (1) · Banfield Pet Hospital (1) · National Veterinary Associates (NVA) (1) · Mission Pet Health (1)

We track the vet chains and groups, not every independent practice, so a practice not listed here hasn’t been checked.

Every listed practice in Murrieta

† 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