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

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

• 92 dental practices: 9 PE-backed or lender-controlled (10%), 3 corporate-owned and 80 with no known PE ties.
• 33 eye care practices: 4 PE-backed (12%), 4 corporate-owned and 24 with no known PE ties.
• 3 locations of the vet chains we track: 3 PE-backed.

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Visalia dentists

PE-backed 4 PE-backed, now lender-controlled 5 Not PE, corporate-owned 3 No known PE ties 80

10% of Visalia’s dental practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above California as a whole (4%) and the US (7%).

The largest group is Sonrava Health, a former PE platform now controlled by its lenders, with 5 of the 92 dental practices here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Visalia Children's Surgery Center (Blue Cloud Pediatric Surgery Centers); Visalia Dental (Smile Brands).

Groups here: Sonrava Health (5) · PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services) (3) · The Aspen Group (TAG) (1) · Choice Healthcare Services (1) · Blue Cloud Pediatric Surgery Centers (1) · Smile Brands (1)

Visalia eye doctors

PE-backed 4 Not PE, corporate-owned 4 Not confirmed 1 No known PE ties 24

12% of Visalia’s eye care practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above California as a whole (3%) and the US (6%).

The largest group is Unifeye Vision Partners (UVP), backed by Waud Capital Partners and Morgan Stanley Private Credit, with 4 of the 33 eye care practices here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Sierra Ambulatory Surgery Center (Unifeye Vision Partners (UVP)); Sierra Eye Medical Group Inc. (Unifeye Vision Partners (UVP)); Sierra Eye Optometric Corp (Unifeye Vision Partners (UVP)).

Groups here: Unifeye Vision Partners (UVP) (4) · Retina Consultants of America (RCA) (1) · National Vision Holdings (1) · LensCrafters (1) · Now Optics (Stanton Optical, My Eyelab) (1) · Target Optical (1)

Visalia vets

PE-backed 3

The largest group is VetCor, backed by Harvest Partners, with 2 of the 3 chain locations here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Caldwell Pet Hospital (VetCor).

Groups here: VetCor (2) · PetVet Care Centers (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 Visalia

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

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