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CareGuard

A Patient Safety Organization listed by AHRQ · PSO P0268

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Sevadar Foundation

CareGuard is operated by Sevadar Foundation Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, EIN 93-2840861. That is the alternate legal name shown on the AHRQ listing for PSO P0268.

Why a nonprofit

A Patient Safety Organization’s value rests on providers believing that what they report will be analyzed rather than monetized. Operating under a foundation is a structural answer to that, not a marketing one.

Related entities, and how to tell them apart

These names appear near each other and are routinely conflated. They are not the same thing.

  • Sevadar Foundation Inc. — the 501(c)(3), EIN 93-2840861. Operates CareGuard.
  • Valor Medica — a separate name of the same foundation. Same EIN, different program.
  • Valor Villages Inc. — a different 501(c)(3), EIN 93-2266407. Not the same organization and not the same EIN.
  • Measura — a separate organization entirely, on the clinical side. The Measura pairing.

The word

A sevadar is one who performs seva — service given without expectation of return. It is the same register the name DWARAA comes from. DWARAA.

Governance

Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP is the Authorized Official of CareGuard and the point of contact on the federal listing. More about Dr. Padda.

Why the operating entity is worth knowing

A Patient Safety Organization is listed under the name of a legal entity, and the entity is part of what is being listed. AHRQ’s public record for P0268 shows the alternate legal name Sevadar Foundation Inc. A PSO must notify the Secretary promptly of changes to information submitted for listing, including a change or addition of a parent organization — so the corporate facts are not incidental detail, they are part of the compliance surface.

No parent organization, no components

CareGuard is not a component PSO and has no parent organization on the listing. That matters because a component PSO — one operating inside a larger organization that is itself a provider — carries additional obligations under the Patient Safety Rule about separation and about disclosure of relationships. None of that applies here, and the listing record reflects it.

Disclosures and findings: none

The AHRQ record also carries a disclosures-and-findings field, which is where a PSO’s disclosed relationships with providers it holds Patient Safety Act contracts with, and any AHRQ findings, would appear. For CareGuard that field reads none. The listing in full.