Post-acute placement
The right facility, with the evidence to back it.
Arara Match helps discharge teams compare post-acute facilities using federal and state data — and keeps the reasoning attached to the case. Every capability carries its source and the date it was observed.
Decision support. The placement is always a human decision.
All 50 states
Every Medicare-certified nursing home in the United States, from CMS
14
Certified capability types mapped from state licensing data
3 states
Confirmed, not certified, not verified — a capability is never a guess
The problem
A placement list is only as good as what you know about it
A discharge planner choosing between facilities usually has a phone list, a fax number, and whatever a colleague remembers.
Whether a facility is actually licensed to take a ventilator patient, run dialysis on site, or accept a paediatric resident is not on that list. So the work becomes a morning of phone calls, and the answer that comes back is whoever picked up, not whoever is certified.
- Capability is confirmed by telephone, one facility at a time, and nothing that is learned is written anywhere the next planner will find it.
- Referrals go out hopefully rather than accurately, because the alternative is another hour on hold.
- The reasoning disappears. Two weeks later nobody can reconstruct why this facility was chosen over that one.
What it costs
A placement that fails is not a soft cost
It is measured in units your finance team already reports on. Arara Match is aimed at the three of them that a capability mismatch drives.
A patient medically ready to leave occupies an acute bed while the team works the phones. Every day is a bed the hospital cannot admit into.
A facility that cannot run the dialysis or the vent sends the patient back. The placement restarts, and the patient absorbs the move twice.
Time spent confirming by telephone what a state regulator already publishes is the most expensive way to obtain a public fact.
We have not put a percentage on any of these, because we do not have your numbers — and a benchmark we cannot source is worth no more than an endorsement we wrote ourselves. Bring yours to the call and we will work through where this does and does not help.
What you actually see
Every capability, with its receipt
Not a score with no provenance. The certification, who issued it, and when it was last observed — and, where no source covers the facility, that fact stated rather than quietly resolved to “no”.
A facility we know nothing about is not a facility that failed your requirement.
Treating it as one would hide exactly the specialist facilities a hard placement depends on — so we show the gap instead of filling it in.
Ventilator program
ConfirmedDialysis, on site
ConfirmedPaediatric residence
Not certifiedTraumatic brain injury program
Not verifiedAn illustration of the capability panel. Facility name is generic.
Confirms what you need
4 facilities
Riverside Center for Rehabilitation
Vent · dialysisNeeds verifying
11 facilities
Lakeside Skilled Nursing
Vent not verifiedRuled out by a source
6 facilities · reason shown
Northgate Care Center
No vent certificationAn illustration of ranked results. Facility names are generic.
Matching
Three groups, not one ranked list
A single ordered list has to decide what to do with a facility nobody has verified, and every answer is wrong: rank it high and you imply evidence you do not have, rank it low and you bury the specialists.
So the groups stay separate, the count of what a filter removed is shown with its reason, and a capability nobody has verified never satisfies a requirement and never removes a facility on its own.
The data
How the data is built
Public government sources, retrieved whole on a schedule and joined on published identifiers. Nothing about a patient is ever sent outward.
Federal, nationwide
Every Medicare-certified nursing home in the United States, from the CMS provider file, refreshed with each release — with quality ratings and certified bed counts.
State certification, where it is published
New York publishes what each facility is licensed to operate — ventilator, AIDS, traumatic brain injury, behavioural, paediatric, dialysis and more. We map it to 14 capability types. Other states as their data allows.
Joined by identifier, never by guesswork
Federal and state records are linked on a published identifier. Where that link cannot be made with certainty, a person reviews it — we measured name-matching at roughly one error in seven among its most confident answers, which is not a rate you accept when the answer is which beds a patient can go to.
- CMS provider file
- June 2026
- NYSDOH certification
- May 8, 2026
- Coverage
- nationwide (CMS), New York (capabilities)
Where this fits
You probably already have a referral platform. Keep it.
Arara Match is not a referral network and does not route, broadcast or negotiate anything. It answers the question asked before a referral is sent: which facilities are actually licensed for this patient?
Your referral platform
Sends the referral, tracks responses, manages the back-and-forth with facilities that have signed up to receive them.
Arara Match
Decides which facilities should receive it, from regulator-published licensing data, with the evidence for each one attached to the case.
What that changes
A narrower, better-founded shortlist goes into the tool you already run, and the reasoning behind it survives in a record somebody can read back two weeks later.
There is no EHR or referral-platform integration today, and we are not going to imply one. Cases are entered in Arara Match and the shortlist leaves with the planner.
Your data
How patient data is handled
Controls we run, described plainly. We do not hold a security certification, and you should be suspicious of a product this young that claims one.
Separated by hospital
Every record belongs to one organization, enforced in the database query rather than in the interface. A request for another hospital's record returns not-found, because confirming that it exists is itself a disclosure.
Identifiers encrypted, access audited
Patient identifiers are encrypted field by field. Viewing one writes an audit record naming the actor — and if that record cannot be written, the view is refused rather than served unlogged.
No patient data in email
Notifications say that something happened and link back into the application. There is no parameter through which a patient detail could reach a message.
Next step
See it against your own state's data
We will walk through the product with the data for the state you place into, and tell you plainly where coverage is thin. If we are not a fit, we will say so on the call.