# Joint research from Professor Sabrina Howell finding declines in care standards at nursing homes that are private-equity owned is spotlighted

1 Faculty News March 11, 2020 ![Institutional Investor logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032206.jpg?itok=XtTdDJtV)>

Excerpt from [Institutional Investor](https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1kq79bp4nv79t/Private-Equity-Backed-Nursing-Homes-Are-Bad-for-Patients-Research-Shows) -- "This dearth of public spending is one of the major reasons for the declines in care standards at nursing homes, according to one of the paper’s authors, [Sabrina Howell](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/sabrina-howell), who is the assistant professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research."

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