Who owns the dentists, eye doctors and vets in Gainesville, VA?

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

• 39 dental practices: 5 PE-backed or lender-controlled (13%), 1 corporate-owned and 33 with no known PE ties.
• 10 eye care practices: 2 PE-backed (20%), 2 corporate-owned and 6 with no known PE ties.
• 1 location of the vet chains we track: 1 corporate-owned.
• 1 location of the GI chains we track: 1 PE-backed.

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Gainesville dentists

PE-backed 3 PE-backed, now lender-controlled 2 Not PE, corporate-owned 1 No known PE ties 33

13% of Gainesville’s dental practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above Virginia as a whole (9%) and the US (7%).

The largest group is Dental Care Alliance (DCA), a former PE platform now controlled by its lenders, with 2 of the 39 dental practices here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: One Endodontics (Smile Brands).

Groups here: Dental Care Alliance (DCA) (2) · Heartland Dental (2) · PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services) (1) · Smile Brands (1)

Gainesville eye doctors

PE-backed 2 Not PE, corporate-owned 2 No known PE ties 6

20% of Gainesville’s eye care practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above Virginia as a whole (11%) and the US (6%).

The largest group is MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services), backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Charlesbank Capital Partners, with 2 of the 10 eye care practices here.

Groups here: MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services) (2) · LensCrafters (1) · Target Optical (1)

Gainesville vets

Not PE, corporate-owned 1

Groups here: Banfield Pet Hospital (1)

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

Gainesville GI doctors

PE-backed, now lender-controlled 1

Groups here: One GI (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 Gainesville

† 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