{
  "id": "release-2026-07-17-verified-national-ownership-connections",
  "date": "2026-07-17",
  "title": "Verified national hospital ownership and sibling connections",
  "summary": "Published evidence-qualified legal parent and sibling-group connections for the existing 50-state and DC hospital map, repaired duplicate campus IDs and the Virginia VA parsing defect, and added ownership and private-equity-link filters.",
  "counts": {
    "mappedHospitals": 8242,
    "publicationUniverse": 8161,
    "territoriesUnchanged": 81,
    "verifiedOwnershipEdges": 7978,
    "withheldUnresolved": 183,
    "repairedDuplicateIds": 329,
    "organizations": 3481,
    "downloadableRecords": 7839,
    "publicDossiers": 1234
  },
  "cohort1412": {
    "missing_connection_added": {
      "count": 863,
      "percentage": 61.12
    },
    "incorrect_connection_corrected": {
      "count": 57,
      "percentage": 4.04
    },
    "alias_name_normalized": {
      "count": 14,
      "percentage": 0.99
    },
    "already_correct": {
      "count": 400,
      "percentage": 28.33
    },
    "withheld_unresolved": {
      "count": 78,
      "percentage": 5.52
    }
  },
  "publicationUniverse8161": {
    "missing_connection_added": {
      "count": 4744,
      "percentage": 58.13
    },
    "incorrect_connection_corrected": {
      "count": 1623,
      "percentage": 19.89
    },
    "alias_name_normalized": {
      "count": 281,
      "percentage": 3.44
    },
    "already_correct": {
      "count": 1330,
      "percentage": 16.3
    },
    "withheld_unresolved": {
      "count": 183,
      "percentage": 2.24
    }
  },
  "changes": [
    "Removed the Virginia state-abbreviation path that could assign unrelated Virginia hospitals to Veterans Affairs.",
    "Normalized Coast Guard clinics to the U.S. Coast Guard rather than the Department of Defense.",
    "Published parent and sibling links only for rows with stable IDs, proof notes, effective dates, and structured source IDs and URLs.",
    "Withheld unresolved and weak-evidence rows from parent and sibling connections.",
    "Made 329 duplicate campus IDs unique without deleting or merging hospitals.",
    "Added Ownership and Private equity link filters with shareable URL parameters."
  ],
  "files": {
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      "path": "/data/pe-healthcare-watch.json",
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    },
    "csv": {
      "path": "/data/pe-healthcare-watch.csv",
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    "audit": {
      "path": "/data/releases/release-2026-07-17-verified-national-ownership-connections-audit.json",
      "rows": 8161
    }
  },
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-17T12:48:14.538Z"
}