Who owns the dentists, eye doctors and vets in Bloomington, MN?

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

• 44 dental practices: 3 PE-backed (7%), 3 corporate-owned and 38 with no known PE ties.
• 21 eye care practices: 5 PE-backed (24%), 2 corporate-owned and 14 with no known PE ties.
• 4 locations of the vet chains we track: 2 PE-backed and 2 corporate-owned.
• 1 location of the GI chains we track.

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Bloomington dentists

PE-backed 3 Not PE, corporate-owned 3 No known PE ties 38

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

Groups here: The Aspen Group (TAG) (1) · PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services) (1) · Dentistry One (1) · Heartland Dental (1) · Park Dental Partners (1) · Southern Orthodontic Partners (1)

Bloomington eye doctors

PE-backed 5 Not PE, corporate-owned 2 No known PE ties 14

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

The largest group is Unifeye Vision Partners (UVP), backed by Waud Capital Partners and Morgan Stanley Private Credit, with 3 of the 21 eye care practices here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Eye Care Network (Unifeye Vision Partners (UVP)); Oxboro Eye Clinic (EyeCare Partners (ECP)).

Groups here: Unifeye Vision Partners (UVP) (3) · EyeCare Partners (ECP) (2) · LensCrafters (1) · Shopko Optical (1)

Bloomington vets

PE-backed 2 Not PE, corporate-owned 2

Groups here: Banfield Pet Hospital (1) · Heartland Veterinary Partners (1) · VCA Animal Hospitals (1) · WellHaven Pet Health (1)

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

Bloomington GI doctors

Group practice 1

Groups here: MNGI Digestive Health (1)

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

Every listed practice in Bloomington

† 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