
The landlord gutting America’s hospitals
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created: July 20, 2025, 3:29 p.m. | updated: July 20, 2025, 6:07 p.m.
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“And she would come back and say, ‘Oh, Miss Debra, I don’t have any.’ I said, ‘Go to another unit.’…‘We don’t have one.’”Glenwood was run by Steward Health Care, at the time one of the country’s largest for-profit health care operators.
Glenwood is just one of nearly 400 health care facilities owned by MPT and rented out to hospital chains.
This week on Reveal, Mother Jones reporter Hannah Levintova and Reveal producer Ashley Cleek dig into MPT—its history, its business model, and how treating hospitals like financial assets leaves them gutted.
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