FacilityGuard — Facility Ownership Intelligence
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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
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
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.
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