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  "canonicalName": "NORTHERN LIGHT A R GOULD HOSPITAL",
  "status": "verified_independent",
  "statusLabel": "No documented PE link",
  "summary": "NORTHERN LIGHT A R GOULD HOSPITAL has a completed Maine state-template dossier baseline with official identity, CMS enrollment/owner context when matched, CMS Care Compare point-in-time context when matched, HCRIS financial/utilization context when matched, and explicit limitations for missing fields. Unsupported ownership, compensation, labor, quality-trend, or causation claims are not inferred.",
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    "confidence": "medium",
    "source_count": 6,
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    "identity_match_method": "CMS enrollment match used where available",
    "publication_decision": "Publish state-template completion fields while preserving explicit unavailable/searched-not-found limitations.",
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    "peRelationship": "No documented PE link in current baseline sources",
    "careLevel": "Acute Care Hospitals",
    "currentCeo": "Needs source-backed local leader research",
    "bottomLine": "NORTHERN LIGHT A R GOULD HOSPITAL is shown with official-source baseline context for Maine. Missing fields remain visible instead of being inferred."
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    "populationServedEstimate": 0,
    "populationServedLabel": "Needs system/facility catchment estimate",
    "estimateMethod": "Not estimated in this state-template completion pass",
    "catchmentDescription": "PRESQUE ISLE, AROOSTOOK, Maine. Service role should be refined in manual follow-up.",
    "traumaCareLevel": "Acute Care Hospitals",
    "publicFacingCaveat": "Community role is sourced from facility type and location until a deeper local-service review is completed."
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      "review_notes": ""
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  "contradictions": [],
  "limitations": [
    "This five-state template completion pass used official cached CMS/HIFLD/PESP/HCRIS sources and records missing items; it does not claim the entire internet was exhausted."
  ],
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      "url": "https://hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/geoplatform::hospitals/about",
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      "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-characteristics/hospitals-and-other-facilities/hospital-enrollments",
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      "research_note": "Used for legal name, DBA, CCN, NPI, enrollment identity, and location matching.",
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    },
    {
      "source_id": "source-cms-hospital-all-owners",
      "title": "Hospital All Owners",
      "publisher": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
      "publication_date": "current cached official file",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-02",
      "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-characteristics/hospitals-and-other-facilities/hospital-all-owners",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Used for current CMS owner, officer, managerial, holding-company, investment-firm, and security-interest rows.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "source-cms-care-compare",
      "title": "Hospital General Information",
      "publisher": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
      "publication_date": "current cached official file",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-02",
      "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Facility type, ownership category, emergency services, and overall rating context.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "source-cms-hcris",
      "title": "Hospital Provider Cost Reports",
      "publisher": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
      "publication_date": "2015-2024 cached official files",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-02",
      "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-compliance/cost-reports/hospital-provider-cost-report",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Financial, staffing, and utilization values; descriptive only and not causal evidence.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "source-pehw-state-template-completion-2026-07-02",
      "title": "PE Healthcare Watch five-state template completion batch",
      "publisher": "PE Healthcare Watch",
      "publication_date": "2026-07-02",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-02",
      "url": "/data/releases/release-2026-07-02-state-template-complete-001.json",
      "reliability_tier": "research",
      "research_note": "Internal public release marker for the five-state template completion. It documents scope and limitations; it is not independent ownership evidence.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
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    "model": "State-template baseline separates facility record, operator/owner context, CMS owner rows, and PE status evidence. Context nodes do not create new ownership claims.",
    "confidence": "medium",
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        "label": "NORTHERN LIGHT A R GOULD HOSPITAL",
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          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners",
          "source-cms-care-compare"
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      }
    ],
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      {
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        "relationship": "operates",
        "confidence": "medium",
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          "source-cms-hospital-enrollments",
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners",
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        "note": "Baseline operator/owner context for state-page completion; not an inferred PE ownership claim."
      }
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    "caveats": [
      "CMS owner rows identify enrolled owner/control roles but may not name every ultimate financial sponsor.",
      "Missing local CEO, compensation, state-regulator, Form 990, or quality-trend fields remain explicit.",
      "This chain is a template baseline and should be superseded by deeper source-family research when available."
    ]
  }
}