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    "CMS corroborates an enrolled ownership chain, but its owner names do not independently reproduce every sponsor or portfolio-company name from the tracker.",
    "The investment signal does not establish completed private-equity ownership or a pending sale.",
    "This campus/location dossier reuses the source packet for the same legacy hospital ID. Parent and sibling links still follow this location record’s separately qualified ownership fields; PE status was copied only after exact PE-field agreement."
  ],
  "unavailableFields": [
    "Precise acquisition date",
    "Official facility URL"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "source_id": "source-hifld-hospitals",
      "title": "Hospitals RAPT",
      "publisher": "Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data",
      "publication_date": "current public layer",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-06-22",
      "url": "https://hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/geoplatform::hospitals/about",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Used for facility location and basic identity context; it does not establish private-equity ownership.",
      "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": "2026-06-22",
      "url": "https://pestakeholder.org/private-equity-hospital-tracker/",
      "reliability_tier": "research",
      "research_note": "Discovery and ownership-chain baseline. A red public status also requires independent corroboration in this dossier.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "source-cms-hospital-enrollments",
      "title": "Hospital Enrollments",
      "publisher": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
      "publication_date": "2026-05-01",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-06-22",
      "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-characteristics/hospitals-and-other-facilities/hospital-enrollments",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Used to corroborate current enrollment identity, legal name, DBA, CCN, NPI, and location.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "source-cms-hospital-all-owners",
      "title": "Hospital All Owners",
      "publisher": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
      "publication_date": "2026-05-01",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-06-22",
      "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-characteristics/hospitals-and-other-facilities/hospital-all-owners",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Used to corroborate direct or indirect ownership, control, holding-company, investment-firm, and security-interest records.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "source-cms-hcris",
      "title": "Hospital Provider Cost Reports",
      "publisher": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
      "publication_date": "2015–2024",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-06-22",
      "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-compliance/cost-reports/hospital-provider-cost-report",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Financial, staffing, and utilization values. These descriptive measures do not establish causation.",
      "source_type": "public_record"
    },
    {
      "source_id": "source-cms-care-compare",
      "title": "Hospital General Information",
      "publisher": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
      "publication_date": "2026",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-06-22",
      "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u",
      "reliability_tier": "government",
      "research_note": "Used for current facility identity, hospital type, ownership category, and overall rating when available.",
      "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": "facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
        "label": "ST. CHRISTOPHERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN - TRANSPLANT CENTER",
        "kind": "hospital",
        "evidence": "public facility record"
      },
      {
        "id": "organization:tower-health",
        "label": "TOWER HEALTH",
        "kind": "portfolio_company_or_operator",
        "evidence": "research tracker or primary organizational source"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:stc-healthcare-partners-llc:0",
        "label": "STC HEALTHCARE PARTNERS LLC",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "5% OR GREATER DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:renee-turchi:1",
        "label": "RENEE TURCHI",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OTHER"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:david-blum:2",
        "label": "DAVID BLUM",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OTHER"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:helen-bowman:3",
        "label": "HELEN BOWMAN",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OTHER"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:charles-cairns:4",
        "label": "CHARLES CAIRNS",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OTHER"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:ogechukwu-menkiti:5",
        "label": "OGECHUKWU MENKITI",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OTHER"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:drexel-university:6",
        "label": "DREXEL UNIVERSITY",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "5% OR GREATER INDIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:chad-lassiter:7",
        "label": "CHAD LASSITER",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OTHER"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:tower-health:8",
        "label": "TOWER HEALTH",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "5% OR GREATER INDIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:tower-health:9",
        "label": "TOWER HEALTH",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:donald-mueller:10",
        "label": "DONALD MUELLER",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OTHER"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:robert-ehinger:11",
        "label": "ROBERT EHINGER",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "CONTRACTED MANAGING EMPLOYEE"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:robert-ehinger:12",
        "label": "ROBERT EHINGER",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "CORPORATE OFFICER"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:martin-herman:13",
        "label": "MARTIN HERMAN",
        "kind": "cms_owner_or_controller",
        "evidence": "OTHER"
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    "edges": [
      {
        "id": "organization:tower-health->facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
        "from": "organization:tower-health",
        "to": "facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
        "relationship": "reported ownership or operating chain",
        "confidence": "medium",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners",
          "source-pesp-hospital-tracker"
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        "note": "The platform attribution comes from the research tracker and is displayed separately from CMS legal-owner rows."
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      {
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        "to": "facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
        "relationship": "owns an interest in",
        "confidence": "high",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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        "note": "5% OR GREATER DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST · 100% reported ownership · associated 12/15/2019"
      },
      {
        "id": "cms-owner:renee-turchi:1->facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
        "from": "cms-owner:renee-turchi:1",
        "to": "facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
        "relationship": "is associated with",
        "confidence": "high",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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        "note": "OTHER · associated 01/01/2022"
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:david-blum:2->facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
        "from": "cms-owner:david-blum:2",
        "to": "facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
        "relationship": "is associated with",
        "confidence": "high",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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        "note": "OTHER · associated 01/01/2022"
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      {
        "id": "cms-owner:helen-bowman:3->facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
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        "to": "facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
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        "sourceIds": [
          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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        "to": "facility:393307-loc-pa-philadelphia-st-christophers-hospital-for-children-",
        "relationship": "is associated with",
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        "sourceIds": [
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          "source-cms-hospital-all-owners"
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