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Prospect Medical Holdings
Leonard Green extracted $400M+ through dividend recaps and management fees while hospitals deteriorated. Multiple facilities closed or in crisis 2023-2025. Subject of congressional investigation.
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Reviewed operating findings or a classified operating outcome are available.
Record updated Sept. 4, 2026
Current ownership
Current owner not established
This record does not identify a current owner. That absence is a gap in the record, not a conclusion about ownership.
1 ownership record has an unresolved current/former status.
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Jan. 11, 2025
Bankruptcy filedR1
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Operating outcome
Operating through distress or restructuring
Filed Chapter 11 in January 2025; hospitals and physicians offices stayed open throughout. Two Pennsylvania hospitals, Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital, wound down in 2025.
Its larger medical-group network, Prospect Health, was not part of the filing and was sold to Astrana Health for $708 million in July 2025, continuing to serve about 600,000 members.
- Founded
- 1996
- Cause
- Dividend recapitalization · with sale-leaseback
- Business Wire (company primary) · 2025 · hospitals and medical centers remained open throughout Chapter 11, uninterrupted patient care, PHP Holdings/Prospect Health medical groups not part of the filing
- Astrana Health investor relations (SEC 8-K, company primary) · 2025 · acquisition of Prospect Health closed July 1, 2025 for $708 million, ~600,000 members across CA/TX/AZ/RI
- Delaware County, PA · Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital wind-down
- CBS News · Prospect Medical Holdings founded 1996; Leonard Green & Partners owned Prospect from 2010 to 2021 and extracted about $645 million in dividends, including rough
- WHYY · Leonard Green sold hospital real estate to a REIT, saddling Prospect with about $1.3 billion in lease obligations, then sold its 60% stake to executives Sam Lee
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- R1PESP Bankruptcy Tracker 2025
PESP Bankruptcy Tracker 2025 · Bankruptcy source
Supports: Bankruptcy filing
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- No current public ownership assessment has been published.
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