Who owns the dentists, eye doctors and vets in Gig Harbor, WA?

Which Gig Harbor 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: 1 PE-backed (2%), 1 corporate-owned and 42 with no known PE ties.
• 17 eye care practices: 1 PE-backed (6%), 1 corporate-owned and 15 with no known PE ties.
• 6 locations of the vet chains we track: 5 PE-backed.
• 1 location of the dermatology chains we track: 1 PE-backed.
• 2 locations of the GI chains we track: 2 corporate-owned.

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Gig Harbor dentists

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

2% of Gig Harbor’s dental practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: below Washington as a whole (4%) and the US (7%).

Groups here: Smile Brands (1) · PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services) (1)

Gig Harbor eye doctors

PE-backed 1 Not PE, corporate-owned 1 No known PE ties 15

6% of Gig Harbor’s eye care practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above Washington as a whole (3%) and about the same as the US (6%).

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Olympic Eye Care (AEG Vision (formerly Acuity Eyecare Group)).

Groups here: AEG Vision (formerly Acuity Eyecare Group) (1) · Target Optical (1)

Gig Harbor vets

PE-backed 5 Not confirmed 1

The largest group is National Veterinary Associates (NVA), backed by JAB Holding Company, with 3 of the 6 chain locations here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Purdy Veterinary Hospital (VetCor); Uptown Animal Hospital (Lakefield Veterinary Group).

Groups here: National Veterinary Associates (NVA) (3) · BoosterPet (1) · VetCor (1) · Lakefield Veterinary Group (1)

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

Gig Harbor dermatologists

PE-backed 1

Groups here: Frontier Dermatology (1)

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

Gig Harbor GI doctors

Not PE, corporate-owned 2

Groups here: GI Alliance (2)

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 Gig Harbor

† 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