Who publishes The Long-Term Care Standards Project, and who pays for it

Ownership

Who publishes this

The Long-Term Care Standards Project is published by Vident Partners, an expert witness referral firm founded in 2005 and based in Dallas, Texas. It is not a separate company, a nonprofit, an academic institute, or an independent journal. It is a section of videntpartners.com, and it says so in the header of every page it contains.

We publish it under our own name on purpose. The experts who anchor this Center will list what they write here among their publications when they are retained, and opposing counsel will read those disclosures and follow the link. There is nothing on these pages we would not want them to find, and nothing about who publishes it that we would rather they did not know.

Funding

Who pays for it

Vident Partners funds this Center in full. The Center accepts no advertising, no sponsorship, and no third-party funding of any kind. It takes no money from operators, from insurers, from trade associations, or from plaintiff or defense firms.

Vident Partners is compensated when an attorney engages an expert through our referral service. That is our business, and it is the commercial interest behind this publication. Reading anything here costs nothing and obligates nothing, and the initial consultation is complimentary.

Editorial policy

How pages are written and corrected

Every factual assertion on a Center page carries a numbered citation to a primary source — a statute, a regulation, a court opinion, a federal dataset, agency guidance, or a peer-reviewed paper. Secondary commentary is not cited in place of the source underneath it.

Every cited URL is checked before publication and rechecked whenever a page is revised. A reference that cannot be opened is not a reference.

Regulatory statements are dated, not assumed. This subject has moved twice in eighteen months — a staffing standard was created, vacated, suspended, and repealed — and any page here that describes a requirement names the version and the date it took effect.

The Center takes no position on the outcome of any case. Where the authority favors neither side, the page says so. Where the evidence favors facilities, the page says that too.

Corrections are made on the page rather than silently. When a figure changes because the underlying dataset was revised, the figure and its citation are updated together.

Expert selection

How anchor experts are selected

Anchor experts are selected on credentials and operating record in the specific question at issue — not on availability, and not on how often they have testified.

This Center is deliberately explicit about scope. Its current anchors answer injury mechanism and orthopedic consequence, which is the half of these cases a nursing standard-of-care opinion is least equipped to reach. Where a matter turns on facility administration, wound management, or geriatric clinical judgment, Vident Partners places those experts from its wider network rather than stretching an anchor beyond their field.

A documented testimony history on both sides of the “v.” is a selection criterion, not a footnote. The same standard this Center asks attorneys to apply to any retained expert is the standard applied to the experts who anchor it.

Anchor experts do not direct the Center's editorial content, and nothing published here is written to support a position in a pending matter.

Appearing here is not an endorsement of any opinion an expert may offer in any particular case. Retention decisions belong to counsel.

• Al Vangura Jr., M.S., CPSIM.S. Bioengineering, Pitt · B.S. Biomechanics, Penn State · CPSI Certified
• Nicholas A. Alfonso, M.D.M.D. · Board-Certified Orthopedic Trauma · Fellowship-Trained · AOTrauma Faculty

Standing rule

The sourcing rule

No claim without a citation. If a statement cannot be traced to a primary source a reader can open, it does not go on the page — however obviously true it seems.

A population figure is not an individual finding. Statistics describing 14,700 facilities are never presented as though they resolve what happened to one resident in one building on one shift.

A number is reported with the conditions that produced it: the sampling method, the period covered, the measurement instrument, whether the data are self-reported, and whether they are subject to revision. Where a source publishes its own caution about its data — as CNA does about its pandemic-era claim years — that caution is reproduced rather than dropped.

The Center currently cites 41 primary sources. They are listed in full, with live links, at the foot of the Center overview.