Editorial Policy

The database prefers primary public recordsover secondary reporting:

• Ownership and corporate structure: state business filings, SEC disclosures (10-K, 13D/G, S-1, proxy statements), corporate press releases, and signed M&A announcements.
• Certifications: the issuing body's public registry (FDA, AABB, AATB, CAP, state regulators).
• Legal actions: federal and state court dockets (PACER, state e-filing systems), regulatory enforcement databases (FDA warning letters, 483s, consent decrees), and orders or settlements published by the agency or court.
• People and roles: the organization's own leadership pages, regulatory filings naming officers, and verified industry directories.

Reporting from established outlets is used to corroborate or flag claims, but a single secondary source by itself is not sufficient to enter a contested fact.

Each organization carries one of two verification states, shown on its profile:

• Verified. Identity confirmed against an issuing or regulatory body's public record. At least one cited source is a primary public record. Ownership and certification claims have been checked against the cited source.
• Unverified. The entry exists because of a submission or a single secondary source and has not yet been cross-checked. The public profile shows an explicit unverified marker.

Anyone can submit information through the submission form. Submissions enter a queue with status pending and are not published until reviewed.

Review checks:

• Are the supporting URLs reachable and primary?
• Does the claim match what those sources actually say?
• Is the organization in scope (US healthcare providers within the sectors covered)?
• Are claims about specific people limited to their professional capacity?

Submissions that pass review become approved and are merged into the database. Those that fail become rejected with a reviewer note. The submitter's contact information is used only to follow up; it is not published.

Anyone, including subjects of an entry, may request a correction by emailing [email protected] or using the submission form with type correction.

Correction requests are evaluated on the same sourcing standard as new entries. Corrections that change a material claim (ownership, legal status, certification) are noted in the entry's revision history.

The default posture is that public records about organizations and their professional principals stay in the database. The operator considers removal in narrow circumstances:

• The entry is factually wrong and a corrected version is not supportable.
• The named individual is a private person who is no longer connected to the organization in a public-facing role, and continued listing is not in the public interest.
• The organization no longer operates and inclusion is misleading rather than informative.

Removal requests are answered in writing with the decision and reasoning. Honored requests result in the entry being unpublished from the public site; the audit log of prior states is retained internally.