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Dr. Robert McNamara Offers Perspective to NBC News on Study Finding Death Rates Rose in Hospital ERs After Private Equity Firms Took Over

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Robert McNamara, MD, FAAEM, Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, provided insight to NBC News on new research published in Annals of Internal Medicine that found after hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency departments rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals.