Lauren Coleman-Lochner

For Filicia Porter, the insurance bills were the final straw. They’d been climbing steeply for her assisted-living business as Florida was battered with ever more-powerful storms, and eventually, the numbers stopped adding up.

Private equity-owned businesses accounted for a high number of bankruptcies in the health-care sector last year, and another wave of distress looms, according to a new report from an advocacy group that monitors the sector.

Private equity-owned businesses accounted for a high number of bankruptcies in the health-care sector last year, and another wave of distress looms, according to a new report from an advocacy group that monitors the sector.

US states and municipalities face a daunting challenge — and added costs — girding against weather that’s becoming more extreme. Now a niche market is springing up for investors who are looking to target their dollars toward projects aimed at mitigating those risks.

Like other major universities, the University of Southern California has poured resources into expanding its health system. But it’s coming at a cost.

Pandemic-induced obstacles are still squeezing senior living facilities and with a rash of debt coming due, investors are likely to feel continued pain in the sector over the next several years.

New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center said it’s closing two units at its Beth Israel Hospital in downtown Manhattan this month.

Troubled Pennsylvania hospital chain Tower Health is eyeing a turnaround after struggling even before the pandemic hit.

Not-for-profit hospitals must adjust to financial results falling short of what’s traditionally needed to grow and invest, according to Fitch Ratings.

Even for one of the wealthiest municipalities in the US, operating a nursing home is a strain.

Hospitals are returning to the municipal-bond market as they aim to pivot from survival to revival.

Hospitals are seeing relief on the labor front, a development that could hasten the sector’s tentative steps to recovery, according to Fitch Ratings.

Private equity’s stewardship of hospitals is again coming under scrutiny with the launch of a new bipartisan Senate investigation.

Two major ratings firms disagree on how US hospitals will fare in the coming year.

Hospitals are returning to the municipal-bond market after shying away since the pandemic.

Not even its status as the national university of the Catholic Church can outweigh the pressures facing smaller private US colleges as Moody’s Investors Service cuts the credit rating of the Catholic University of America.

Houston’s public hospitals serving the city’s neediest have some needs of their own. Steam and water pipes bursting at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital have burned patients and staff, and sewage has backed up into Ben Taub Hospital’s pharmacy.

A Pennsylvania company that operates three nursing homes is in default, and it’s a familiar story: staff shortages and a large slump in occupancy in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Mount Sinai Medical Center has set the closing of its Beth Israel campus for July 12 following years of financial struggles.

State and local governments are contending with more strikes as unions gain strength after decades of decline, a particular concern for hospitals still struggling to recover from pandemic-induced setbacks.