Who owns the dentists, eye doctors and vets in Westminster, MD?

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

• 38 dental practices: 3 PE-backed or lender-controlled (8%) and 35 with no known PE ties.
• 21 eye care practices: 5 PE-backed (24%), 4 corporate-owned, 1 in clinician-owned groups and 10 with no known PE ties.
• 2 locations of the vet chains we track: 1 PE-backed and 1 corporate-owned.
• 4 locations of the dermatology chains we track: 3 PE-backed.

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Westminster dentists

PE-backed 2 PE-backed, now lender-controlled 1 No known PE ties 35

8% of Westminster’s dental practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above Maryland as a whole (6%) and about the same as the US (7%).

Groups here: The Aspen Group (TAG) (1) · Heartland Dental (1) · Dental Care Alliance (DCA) (1)

Westminster eye doctors

PE-backed 5 Not PE, corporate-owned 4 Part of a health system 1 Group practice 1 No known PE ties 10

24% of Westminster’s eye care practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above Maryland as a whole (10%) and the US (6%).

The largest group is Vision Innovation Partners (VIP), backed by Gryphon Investors, with 4 of the 21 eye care practices here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Carroll County Surgery Center (Vision Innovation Partners (VIP)).

Groups here: Vision Innovation Partners (VIP) (4) · PRISM Vision Group (2) · National Vision Holdings (1) · MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services) (1) · LifeBridge Health (1) · Synergy Medical Group (1) · Visionworks (1)

Westminster vets

PE-backed 1 Not PE, corporate-owned 1

Groups here: Banfield Pet Hospital (1) · VetCor (1)

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

Westminster dermatologists

PE-backed 3 Group practice 1

The largest group is Anne Arundel Dermatology, backed by Ridgemont Equity Partners, with 2 of the 4 chain locations here.

Groups here: Anne Arundel Dermatology (2) · Dermatology Partners (1) · Integrated 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 Westminster

† 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