Who owns the dentists, eye doctors and vets in Clearwater, FL?

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

• 134 dental practices: 22 PE-backed or lender-controlled (16%), 2 corporate-owned and 105 with no known PE ties.
• 59 eye care practices: 7 PE-backed (12%), 9 corporate-owned and 42 with no known PE ties.
• 9 locations of the vet chains we track: 5 PE-backed and 3 corporate-owned.
• 5 locations of the dermatology chains we track: 5 PE-backed.

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Clearwater dentists

PE-backed 18 PE-backed, now lender-controlled 4 Not PE, corporate-owned 2 Not confirmed 5 No known PE ties 105

16% of Clearwater’s dental practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above Florida as a whole (12%) and the US (7%).

The largest group is Heartland Dental, backed by KKR and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, with 6 of the 134 dental practices here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Bay Area Endo (Specialty1 Partners); Christopher L Ross DMD MS PA (Specialty1 Partners); Crossland Dental (Smile Brands); J Timothy Doerner Dda PA (Smile Brands); Rodney L Anthony DMD PA (Specialty1 Partners).

Groups here: Heartland Dental (6) · Specialty1 Partners (5) · Smile Brands (4) · Affordable Care (ACI) (3) · Coast Dental (2) · PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services) (2) · Specialty Smile Partners (1) · The Aspen Group (TAG) (1) · SGA Dental Partners (incl. former Gen4 Dental Partners) (1) · Dental Care Alliance (DCA) (1) · Specialized Dental Partners (1) · MB2 Dental (1)

Clearwater eye doctors

PE-backed 7 Not PE, corporate-owned 9 Not confirmed 1 No known PE ties 42

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

The largest group is MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services), backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Charlesbank Capital Partners, with 4 of the 59 eye care practices here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Healing Eye Care (MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services)); Robson Eye Institute (Ascend Vision Partners).

Groups here: MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services) (4) · National Vision Holdings (3) · EyeCare Partners (ECP) (3) · LensCrafters (2) · Optical Outlets (1) · Retina Consultants of America (RCA) (1) · Ascend Vision Partners (1) · Target Optical (1) · Visionworks (1)

Clearwater vets

PE-backed 5 Not PE, corporate-owned 3 VC-backed, not PE 1

The largest group is Banfield Pet Hospital, owned by Mars Veterinary Health rather than a PE firm, with 2 of the 9 chain locations here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: All Pet Care (Community Veterinary Partners (CVP)); Metzler Veterinary Hospital (National Veterinary Associates (NVA)); The Pet Dentist at Tampa Bay – Clearwater (Animal Outpatient Specialty Network (AOSN)).

Groups here: Banfield Pet Hospital (2) · Community Veterinary Partners (CVP) (1) · VetCor (1) · BluePearl Pet Hospital (1) · National Veterinary Associates (NVA) (1) · Ethos Veterinary Health (1) · Animal Outpatient Specialty Network (AOSN) (1) · Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG) (1)

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

Clearwater dermatologists

PE-backed 5

The largest group is Anne Arundel Dermatology, backed by Ridgemont Equity Partners, with 3 of the 5 chain locations here.

Groups here: Anne Arundel Dermatology (3) · Advanced Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery (ADCS) (1) · Riverchase Dermatology (1)

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

Every listed practice in Clearwater

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

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