Editorial policy
Who runs this site, and who pays
No facility pays us anything: not to be listed, ranked, referred or removed. A free program of Still Standing Recovery (501(c)(3) status pending).
What is reviewed, and by whom
This site publishes two different kinds of content, and they need different things from a reviewer:
- Facility records (the individual facility pages) are not "written" and are not medically reviewed — they are assembled from government and facility-published sources by a data pipeline. What a record needs is provenance, not a byline: which source, checked when. That is on every fact, on every page. The Bridge to Rehab editorial team, Still Standing Recovery, is responsible for the pipeline's correctness; see methodology for how matching works and where it fails.
- Guidance content (how to choose, what things cost, levels of care, what to do if someone refuses treatment) makes claims that need a qualified person behind them. Where a page states a clinical fact — a withdrawal timeline, what a level of care involves medically — it should carry a named, credentialed reviewer before it's trusted for that purpose. Guidance pages are written and reviewed by the Bridge to Rehab editorial team, Still Standing Recovery, and are credited that way, including "When someone refuses to go". They do not yet carry a named clinical reviewer; that's a real gap, not an oversight, and closing it is the next thing on this page's own list.
What this site will not do
- Accept payment from a facility for placement, ranking, referral, or removal of unfavorable information, in any form: per lead, per referral or per admission.
- Sell placement.
- Republish an individual's review text without their own, freely given permission.
- State a fact about a named facility without a source and a date attached to it.
- Characterize a regulator's finding in stronger or weaker language than the regulator used.
- Add urgency, scarcity, or countdown-style pressure to any call to action, regardless of whether it would convert better. See the site's own build notes on why, if you want the research behind that decision.
Corrections
Corrections are handled the same way regardless of who asks — a family member, a facility, a regulator or a journalist. Write to corrections@bridgetorehab.com with the record and the specific claim. If the underlying source is wrong, we'll say so and link to this page's history rather than silently editing it away. If our extraction of a correct source was wrong, we fix it and note when.
See also
Methodology — how records are matched across sources, and the match rate per state, including the bad ones. About — what the site is and where each source comes from.