# Private Equity Stakeholder Project The **Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP)** is a nonprofit watchdog that researches and tracks the impact of [[Private Equity]] across sectors, with a major focus on healthcare. Its **Private Equity Hospital Tracker** is the standard public dataset for PE hospital ownership — the source of the ~488-hospital figure used in the [[Private Equity Hospital Rollup]] and [[Healthcare Industry Ecosystem]] pages. > Stub — expand with PESP's other trackers (housing, healthcare staffing) and methodology.