Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging state regulators • Source New Mexico

Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging state regulators • Rhode Island Current

A man attempts to pull his power wheelchair through the snow after it got stuck on his driveway in December 2024 in Watertown, N.Y. In recent years, a handful of large private equity-owned companies such as Sevita have acquired hundreds of smaller providers of disability services around the country and rolled them into larger corporations. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)Private equity companies have gobbled up group homes and other serv…

Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging state regulators • Source New Mexico

WATERTOWN, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 5: Charles Ladalley, 79, attempts to pull his power wheelchair through the snow after it got stuck on his driveway on December 5, 2024 in Watertown, New York. Ladalley was injured while serving during the Vietnam War and uses the wheelchair as his main mode of transportation to town. This region in New York is experiencing the second snowstorm of the week and has been under a Winter Storm Warning for two days. (Pho…