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  "canonicalName": "LIFEBRITE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF STOKES",
  "status": "signal",
  "statusLabel": "Documented investment signal",
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    "reviewer": "Five-state state-template completion batch",
    "evidence_grade": "completed state-template official-source baseline",
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      "plain_english_summary": "CMS Hospital All Owners rows are attached as current owner/control context. They do not by themselves prove private-equity sponsorship unless the row says so or another cited source supports it.",
      "review_notes": ""
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      "review_notes": ""
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      "title": "CMS before/after ownership event",
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      "entity_id": "341317",
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      "period_end": "12/31/2021",
      "value": "151",
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      "better_when": "context_dependent",
      "source_id": "source-cms-hcris",
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      "period_end": "12/31/2020",
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      "unit": "discharges",
      "better_when": "context_dependent",
      "source_id": "source-cms-hcris",
      "methodology_note": "Hospital Provider Cost Report value. Compare only like fields and compatible fiscal periods; no causal inference is implied.",
      "comparable_to_prior": "review_required"
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      "private_equity_company": false,
      "holding_company": false,
      "management_services_company": false,
      "medical_staffing_company": false
    },
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      "private_equity_company": false,
      "holding_company": false,
      "management_services_company": false,
      "medical_staffing_company": false
    },
    {
      "organization": "CHRISTIAN FLETCHER",
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      "investment_firm": false,
      "private_equity_company": false,
      "holding_company": false,
      "management_services_company": false,
      "medical_staffing_company": false
    },
    {
      "organization": "CHRISTIAN FLETCHER",
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      "association_date": "01/30/2017",
      "percentage_ownership": "",
      "investment_firm": false,
      "private_equity_company": false,
      "holding_company": false,
      "management_services_company": false,
      "medical_staffing_company": false
    },
    {
      "organization": "PAMELA TILLMAN",
      "role": "W-2 MANAGING EMPLOYEE",
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      "percentage_ownership": "",
      "investment_firm": false,
      "private_equity_company": false,
      "holding_company": false,
      "management_services_company": false,
      "medical_staffing_company": false
    },
    {
      "organization": "AMBER FLETCHER",
      "role": "CORPORATE OFFICER",
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      "percentage_ownership": "",
      "investment_firm": false,
      "private_equity_company": false,
      "holding_company": false,
      "management_services_company": false,
      "medical_staffing_company": false
    },
    {
      "organization": "AMBER FLETCHER",
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      "association_date": "01/30/2017",
      "percentage_ownership": "",
      "investment_firm": false,
      "private_equity_company": false,
      "holding_company": false,
      "management_services_company": false,
      "medical_staffing_company": false
    },
    {
      "organization": "FLETCHER 2018 FAMILY TRUST",
      "role": "5% OR GREATER INDIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST",
      "association_date": "12/28/2018",
      "percentage_ownership": "49",
      "investment_firm": false,
      "private_equity_company": false,
      "holding_company": false,
      "management_services_company": false,
      "medical_staffing_company": false
    },
    {
      "organization": "AMBER DOMINIQUE FLETCHER 2018 TRUST",
      "role": "5% OR GREATER INDIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST",
      "association_date": "12/28/2018",
      "percentage_ownership": "5",
      "investment_firm": false,
      "private_equity_company": false,
      "holding_company": false,
      "management_services_company": false,
      "medical_staffing_company": false
    },
    {
      "organization": "LIFEBRITE LABORATORIES, LLC",
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      "association_date": "01/30/2017",
      "percentage_ownership": "",
      "investment_firm": false,
      "private_equity_company": false,
      "holding_company": false,
      "management_services_company": false,
      "medical_staffing_company": false
    }
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    "Reported parent system or portfolio company: LifeBrite.",
    "Operator/owner context: LifeBrite.",
    "CMS Care Compare ownership category: Proprietary."
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  "limitations": [
    "The investment signal does not establish completed private-equity ownership or a pending sale.",
    "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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    "Precise acquisition date",
    "Official facility URL",
    "source-backed local CEO/current leader",
    "official CEO image URL",
    "facility-level CEO compensation amount"
  ],
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    {
      "source_id": "source-hifld-hospitals",
      "title": "Hospitals RAPT",
      "publisher": "Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data",
      "publication_date": "current public layer",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-02",
      "url": "https://hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/geoplatform::hospitals/about",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Facility location and identity source; does not establish ownership or control.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "source-pesp-hospital-tracker",
      "title": "Private Equity Hospital Tracker",
      "publisher": "Private Equity Stakeholder Project",
      "publication_date": "2026-04-03 snapshot",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-02",
      "url": "https://pestakeholder.org/private-equity-hospital-tracker/",
      "reliability_tier": "research",
      "research_note": "Discovery source for PE, contract, and transaction-signal follow-up; not enough by itself for direct control claims.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "source-cms-hospital-enrollments",
      "title": "Hospital Enrollments",
      "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-enrollments",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Used for legal name, DBA, CCN, NPI, enrollment identity, and location matching.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
    },
    {
      "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-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-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-hospital-chow",
      "title": "Hospital Change of Ownership",
      "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-change-of-ownership",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Used for before/after ownership and enrollment transfer events when a matching CHOW row exists.",
      "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": "Sponsor, operator, CMS legal-owner/control records, and facility are shown as separate evidence layers.",
    "confidence": "medium",
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      },
      {
        "id": "organization:lifebrite",
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        "kind": "portfolio_company_or_operator",
        "evidence": "research tracker or primary organizational source"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:lifebrite-hospital-group-llc:0",
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        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "5% OR GREATER DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:christian-fletcher:1",
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        "evidence": "5% OR GREATER INDIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST"
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:christian-fletcher:2",
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        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "CORPORATE OFFICER"
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:christian-fletcher:3",
        "label": "CHRISTIAN FLETCHER",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL"
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:pamela-tillman:4",
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        "evidence": "W-2 MANAGING EMPLOYEE"
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        "id": "cms-owner:amber-fletcher:5",
        "label": "AMBER FLETCHER",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "CORPORATE OFFICER"
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:amber-fletcher:6",
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        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL"
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:fletcher-2018-family-trust:7",
        "label": "FLETCHER 2018 FAMILY TRUST",
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        "evidence": "5% OR GREATER INDIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST"
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:amber-dominique-fletcher-2018-trust:8",
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        "evidence": "5% OR GREATER INDIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:lifebrite-laboratories-llc:9",
        "label": "LIFEBRITE LABORATORIES, LLC",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "5% OR GREATER INDIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST"
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    ],
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      {
        "id": "organization:lifebrite->facility:341317",
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        "relationship": "reported ownership or operating chain",
        "confidence": "medium",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners",
          "source-pesp-hospital-tracker"
        ],
        "note": "The platform attribution comes from the research tracker and is displayed separately from CMS legal-owner rows."
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:lifebrite-hospital-group-llc:0->facility:341317",
        "from": "cms-owner:lifebrite-hospital-group-llc:0",
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        "relationship": "owns an interest in",
        "confidence": "high",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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      },
      {
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        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:christian-fletcher:2->facility:341317",
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        "relationship": "governs",
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        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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        "note": "CORPORATE OFFICER · associated 01/30/2017"
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      {
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        "sourceIds": [
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        "note": "OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL · associated 01/30/2017"
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:pamela-tillman:4->facility:341317",
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        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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    "peRelationship": "Watchlist signal",
    "careLevel": "Critical Access Hospitals",
    "currentCeo": "Needs source-backed local leader research",
    "bottomLine": "LIFEBRITE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF STOKES is shown with official-source baseline context for North Carolina. Missing fields remain visible instead of being inferred."
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    "estimateMethod": "Not estimated in this state-template completion pass",
    "catchmentDescription": "DANBURY, STOKES, North Carolina. Service role should be refined in manual follow-up.",
    "traumaCareLevel": "Critical Access Hospitals",
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    "note": "CMS Care Compare point-in-time identity/rating context captured for the state template. This is not a quality trend or ownership-causation claim.",
    "noCausationClaim": true
  }
}
