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# FacilityGuard — Facility Ownership Intelligence
**Get FacilityGuard** | [Install from Snowflake Marketplace](https://app.snowflake.com/marketplace/listing/GZT1Z7QRT1OD) — 30-day free trial included
### The problem
Who really owns the facilities in your book — and when did that change? For skilled nursing, that is hard to answer. Federal filings disclose only part of the picture (published research puts the share of private-equity activity visible in CMS filings at roughly one-third), owner names in the filings churn constantly, and the official change-of-ownership record shows up months after the fact. If you monitor a portfolio for diligence, compliance, or risk, you are usually working from a stale, partial, name-matched view — and you can't always tell where it stops.
### What FacilityGuard does for you
FacilityGuard turns CMS ownership filings into a reviewable change watchlist for the facilities you care about — running entirely inside your own Snowflake account. You bind a list of facility CMS Certification Numbers (CCNs); FacilityGuard tracks how the disclosed ownership behind them moves month to month and surfaces it as a graded, reviewable alert feed.
* **Early warning.** In backtesting, FacilityGuard surfaced ownership changes on average about **4 months ahead** of the official CMS change-of-ownership (CHOW) file — 100% of the official CHOW events in the test window showed up in the earlier data first.
* **Dead ends are flagged.** Where the filings stop, FacilityGuard marks it: chains that dead-end into an undisclosed upstream owner are shown as explicit dead ends, not drawn as confident-looking complete charts. About 30% of chains dead-end this way — you always know which of your facilities have complete disclosure and which don't.
* **A record you can cite.** Every review is logged — who looked, when, and what they concluded — so the watchlist stands up in a memo or a data room, not just on a screen.
* **Stays in your account.** FacilityGuard reads one table you choose, read-only. Nothing leaves your Snowflake account.
### See it
The change watchlist is the working surface: graded ownership-change events, confirmation chips that flip when the official CMS file later catches up, and a running track record of how often early detections were confirmed.
Ownership chains render each facility's disclosed structure as a tree. Where disclosure ends, the chain ends in a labeled dead-end node — CMS filings go no further here — instead of a confident-looking incomplete chart.
### Try it before you bind your own list
FacilityGuard ships with a **demo portfolio of 14 real, public CMS facilities**, hand-picked to show every coverage state you'll meet in practice — fully-disclosed chains, private-equity ownership, dead ends, partial disclosure, and facilities not yet in the enrollment data. Choose **Use demo portfolio** on the setup page to explore genuine ownership chains, a live change watchlist, and the coverage breakdown before connecting a single CCN of your own.
### Plans
| Plan | Price | Includes |
| --------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **FacilityGuard Vendor** | $5,000/yr | Up to 750 facilities; monthly change-of-ownership and disclosure alerts over your bound portfolio; full watchlist, coverage breakdown, and evidence exports |
| **FacilityGuard Diligence** | $10,000/yr | Everything in Vendor with no facility cap — built for deal-time diligence across any number of facilities |
**Trial:** the full application — every screen works exactly as the paid plans — capped at 25 facilities. The bundled 14-facility demo portfolio exercises every coverage state out of the box.
**Install:** [FacilityGuard on the Snowflake Marketplace](https://app.snowflake.com/marketplace/listing/GZT1Z7QRT1OD)
{% hint style="warning" %}
FacilityGuard is a filed-change watchlist over CMS-disclosed ownership — not complete ownership monitoring. Roughly a third of private-equity activity is visible in federal filings; chains that dead-end in the filings are flagged as dead ends. Changes are detected in CMS's monthly publications, so a detection date is a publication date, not the date a transaction closed. FacilityGuard is not investment, legal, or compliance advice.
{% endhint %}
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**FacilityGuard docs:** [Quickstart](/data-catalog/facilityguard-app/quickstart.md) · [Using the App](/data-catalog/facilityguard-app/using-the-app.md) · [Methodology](/data-catalog/facilityguard-app/methodology.md) · [What FacilityGuard Checks](/data-catalog/facilityguard-app/data-dictionary.md) · [Security & Plans](/data-catalog/facilityguard-app/security-and-plans.md)
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