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Before the LOI: Who Actually Controls the Target?
Nursing home acquisition due diligence: identify the operator, operating family, legal parent, recorded ownership changes, financial reporting coverage, distress signals, and related facilities before evaluating a transaction. Post-acute due diligence fails when the target is treated as one company; it files as many. This is healthcare counterparty intelligence assembled from the public record.
What Post-Acute Due Diligence Has to Establish First
An acquisition target in post-acute care rarely files as one company. The operating entity, the operating family, the legal parent, the property owner and the lenders are separate records, and the risk usually sits in the connections. Before you acquire or advise on a post-acute provider, use Who Owns Care to understand who controls it, what else is connected, what changed, and where the risk sits.
What You Can Establish Before the Decision
- Which operating family controls the target, resolved with an explicit confidence classification
- Every recorded change of ownership around the target and its family, with parties and dates
- The rest of the portfolio: what else the same family operates, and how it is performing
- Distress 2.0 screening across the family, with the drivers behind every elevated band
- Attributed financial reporting periods, never annualised, never straddling a change of ownership
- The operating family is kept separate from the legal parent; a legal parent never replaces the operating-family boundary.
- Lenders and property owners are never treated as operators.
- Every relationship is typed and sourced to the filing it came from.
- Historical financial periods are attributed conservatively; periods straddling an ownership change are never attributed to either party.
- Unresolved evidence remains unresolved rather than being forced into a grouping.
- Acquisition analysis describes temporal association, not causation.
Where to Start
Corporate Family Intelligence Report ($79) State Distress & Acquisition Radar ($399) Worked example: PACS Group dossier
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