Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging state regulators • West Virginia Watch

Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging state regulators • West Virginia Watch

A man attempts to pull his power wheelchair through the snow after it got stuck on his driveway in December 2024 in Watertown, N.Y. In recent years, a handful of large private equity-owned companies such as Sevita have acquired hundreds of smaller providers of disability services around the country and rolled them into larger corporations. (Kayla Bartkowski | Getty Images)Private equity companies have gobbled up group homes and other services fo…