Three programs, one foundation. This page describes what is shared and what is not, because the second list is the more important one.
What they share
- A legal identity. All three are programs of Sevadar Foundation Inc., EIN 93-2840861. They are not separately incorporated. How the foundation works.
- A founder and a standard. Dr. Padda founded all three, and the same three tests were applied to each. The tests.
- A premise. That attention paid on a schedule to something unwatched is the highest-yield intervention available.
- An office. 4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 203, St. Louis, MO 63134
What is walled off
| Held by | What | Why it does not travel |
|---|---|---|
| CareGuard | Patient safety work product | Privileged and confidential under 42 U.S.C. § 299b–22 and the Patient Safety Rule at 42 C.F.R. Part 3. Not the PSO’s discretion and not the parent’s. |
| Valor Medica | Clinical and health information | Protected health information. It belongs to the patient and to the clinical relationship, not to a parent organization. |
| IntellaRx | Individual monitoring data | Same principle. Programme-level measurement is not the same thing as an individual record. |
None of the three flows to the foundation as content, and none flows sideways between programs. A finding about a nursing home does not become material a clinician elsewhere in the organization can read, and a patient’s record does not become foundation material because the foundation is the parent.
What does travel upward
One thing: whether a program is doing what it says it does. That question can be answered without seeing protected content, and answering it is the foundation’s actual job. How decisions get made →
It is worth saying plainly that this makes the foundation a worse storyteller than it could otherwise be. This site cannot tell you which facility, what was found, or whose life changed. That is a cost, and it is the correct cost. Read more: What a Patient Safety Organization actually does.
Why not three separate corporations?
Three corporations would mean three boards, three sets of filings and three chances to lose the thread — and for a small organization, attention is the binding constraint on everything. One foundation with three programs concentrates accountability where it can actually be exercised. Read more: One foundation, three programs.
Questions
Do the programs share patient or facility data?
No. See the table above. Each protection has an independent legal basis and none of them is waivable by the foundation. Independence and boundaries. Read more: What a Patient Safety Organization actually does.
Could a supporter get access to any of it?
No. That is the first of three walls described on the independence page. Read more: A nonprofit with no donate button.
Is CareGuard’s PSO listing shared with the other programs?
No. The listing belongs to CareGuard. Neither the foundation nor the other two programs is a Patient Safety Organization. PSO P0268. Read more: What a Patient Safety Organization actually does.
Sources
Every figure on this page is traceable. Where a source is a government report, the year the data describe is named alongside it, because it is usually not the year of publication.
- U.S. Congress. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, Public Law 109–41, enacted July 29, 2005; 119 Stat. 424. Codified at 42 U.S.C. §§ 299b–21 to 299b–26. govinfo.gov
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement; Final Rule, 73 Fed. Reg. 70732 (November 21, 2008). Codified at 42 C.F.R. Part 3, “Patient Safety Organizations and Patient Safety Work Product.” govinfo.gov