# Professor Sabrina Howell shares takeaways from her recent research which examines how private equity buyouts affect the quality of care in nursing homes

1 Faculty News May 7, 2020 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/business/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html) -- “'The quality of care declines after the private equity buyout, which seems to reflect staffing cuts,' said one of the report’s authors, [Sabrina T. Howell](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/sabrina-howell), assistant professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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