Resources

Landmark causal study showing PE acquisition of nursing homes increases short-term mortality among Medicare patients.

Found PE-owned SNFs had significantly higher COVID-19 infection and death rates during the pandemic.

Documents the post-acquisition playbook: cost cutting, staffing reductions, and quality deterioration over a five-year window.

Early foundational study establishing PE-owned SNFs as systematically lower quality and higher deficiency-cited than other for-profits.

Quantifies how severely incomplete CMS's own ownership disclosure data is — the methodological basis for our entity resolution work.

Policy brief synthesizing the research base and calling for ownership transparency reforms that Placet operationalizes.

Tracks PE investments in healthcare, housing, and infrastructure; primary source for chain-level ownership investigation.

State-level case study of how opacity in PE ownership structures delayed accountability during COVID.

Resident and family advocacy organization; maintains NursingHome411.org with facility-level accountability data.

GAO audit confirming that CMS's ownership data is too incomplete to reliably identify beneficial owners — validates our entity resolution approach.

Primary source for SNF facility info, star ratings, inspection results, and quality measures.

CMS's disclosed ownership data for skilled nursing facilities — incomplete but the authoritative federal starting point.

Full NPI registry for all US healthcare providers; we use it to crosswalk NPI to CCN and normalize organization names.

Longitudinal SNF panel dataset with annual facility-level quality metrics going back to 1999 — enables trend analysis.

Full CMS inspection report text in searchable form; useful for surfacing citation patterns not visible in summary data.

List of individuals and entities excluded from federal healthcare programs; a hard disqualifier we screen operators against.

Publicly traded nursing home chains file 10-Ks disclosing ownership structure, PE relationships, and financial condition.

Largest open database of companies worldwide; useful for tracing shell companies and cross-jurisdiction ownership chains.

Global beneficial ownership data standard and registry; reference for how to model and publish ownership graphs.

The investigation that put PE-owned SNF quality on the national agenda; data-driven and widely cited by researchers.

Comprehensive NYT investigation into COVID deaths and ownership opacity in nursing homes.

Ongoing beat coverage of SNF quality, staffing mandates, and PE accountability — the most consistent trade-press source.

Open-source Python library for scalable probabilistic entity matching; we're using it to deduplicate operator names across data sources.

Native Postgres fuzzy string matching used in normalize_operator_name to catch abbreviation and punctuation variants.