Hospitals as tenants

February 14, 2026, Paper: "As financial actors including private equity funds increasingly buy and sell hospitals, nursing homes, and physician practices, real estate investment trusts (REITs) have emerged as a form of financial ownership in which the REIT owns the real estate properies of health-care facilities and health-care providers pay rent to the REIT.¹ Given the rise of REITs in health care and their expanding global influence, policy makers should take a proactive stance towards regulating health-care REITs to disincentivise short-term profiteering and encourage long-term health-care investments that promote patient access and health-care quality."