{"id":629210,"date":"2026-09-27T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629210\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:50:07","slug":"how-private-equity-is-killing-public-access-to-hospitals-and-emergency-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629210\/","title":{"rendered":"How private equity is killing public access to hospitals and emergency care\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YGGKCYP6ARFPLN4HOKO7NDO5UY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">For more than two decades, I have worked in emergency departments across Chicago, and I have watched what happens when a hospital disappears from a neighborhood that depended upon it.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6VR62O3QHRDWZAL5RR7OKQUWDA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The ambulances have to drive farther, waiting rooms fill faster, and patients arrive sicker because the care they needed wasn\u2019t there when they needed it. What I didn\u2019t expect over the course of my career was to watch this happen not because a neighborhood couldn\u2019t support the hospital, but because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/06\/07\/the-death-of-hahnemann-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hospital\u2019s assets<\/a> may be worth more extracted than operating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than two decades, I have worked in emergency departments across Chicago, and I have watched what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-629210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}