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

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

• 79 dental practices: 8 PE-backed or lender-controlled (10%), 2 corporate-owned and 66 with no known PE ties.
• 26 eye care practices: 0 PE-backed (0%), 2 corporate-owned and 23 with no known PE ties.
• 6 locations of the vet chains we track: 4 PE-backed and 2 corporate-owned.
• 2 locations of the dermatology chains we track: 2 PE-backed.

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Vero Beach dentists

PE-backed 6 PE-backed, now lender-controlled 2 Not PE, corporate-owned 2 Not confirmed 3 No known PE ties 66

10% of Vero Beach’s dental practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: about the same as Florida as a whole (12%) and above the US (7%).

The largest group is Heartland Dental, backed by KKR and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, with 5 of the 79 dental practices here.

Groups here: Heartland Dental (5) · Affordable Care (ACI) (2) · PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services) (2) · The Aspen Group (TAG) (1) · Coast Dental (1) · Sage Dental (1) · Beacon Oral Specialists (1)

Vero Beach eye doctors

Not PE, corporate-owned 2 Not confirmed 1 No known PE ties 23

Groups here: National Vision Holdings (1) · LensCrafters (1) · Now Optics (Stanton Optical, My Eyelab) (1)

Vero Beach vets

PE-backed 4 Not PE, corporate-owned 2

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Dr. Dan’s Animal Hospital (VetEvolve); Pawprints-Vero-Beach- (Destination Pet).

Groups here: Banfield Pet Hospital (1) · Western Veterinary Partners (1) · VetEvolve (1) · Destination Pet (1) · VCA Animal Hospitals (1) · National Veterinary Associates (NVA) (1)

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

Vero Beach dermatologists

PE-backed 2

Groups here: Advanced Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery (ADCS) (1) · Water's Edge 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 Vero Beach

† 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