NYSDOH Opened Firms Record Fields | Directory Data Guide

Direct answer and scope

The checked NYSDOH Opened Firms report contains seven relevant fields: firm name, address, city, ZIP code, phone, county, and manager. The report revision used here is July 2026. A directory can preserve each value as a distinct administrative source field and identify the report revision alongside it.

The fields support different discovery tasks. Firm name is the record's named firm identifier. Address, city, and ZIP code describe the location information recorded for that firm. Phone is the contact value recorded in the report. County is the county value recorded in the report. Manager is the manager value recorded in the report.

This scope does not extend beyond what the report supplies. A field may help a reader find or distinguish a record, but the field itself does not establish a service area, ownership arrangement, responsiveness, service availability, quality finding, or endorsement. Those matters require separate evidence when they are relevant.

How to use the official evidence

Begin with the firm name, then read the address, city, and ZIP code as separate location fields. Keeping these values separate makes it possible to distinguish the name of the firm from the location recorded for it. The county field should also remain separate from the city and ZIP code because it is its own report field.

Read the phone as the contact value supplied by the report. Its presence supports locating the contact field associated with the record. It does not answer whether someone will respond, whether the number is currently in use, or whether a service is available.

Read the manager as the manager field supplied by the report. It can identify the value shown under that heading, but the Opened Firms table does not turn that field into an ownership finding or a separate licensing result.

For directory verification, the renderer may display the registered firm fields, the source revision, an active-manager name match, a closed-firm conflict result, and the verification date used by the directory. Those displayed checks describe the evidence fields validated for the directory; they do not expand the registry snapshot into a finding about service quality or completeness.

Decision framework

Use the firm name when the immediate task is identifying which record is being read. Use the address, city, and ZIP code when the task is locating or distinguishing the listed address. Use the county field when the task is reading the county recorded in the report. Use the phone field when the task is locating the report's contact entry. Use the manager field when the task is reading the manager value recorded by the source.

If two records appear similar, compare their fields rather than treating the name alone as conclusive. Compare the displayed name, address, city, ZIP code, phone, county, and manager with the corresponding source fields. The purpose of this comparison is to keep the directory record aligned with the official administrative evidence.

A field should answer only the question it actually records. The county field records a county, not every place a firm may serve. The address fields record a listed location, not an ownership arrangement. The phone field records a contact value, not current response. The manager field records a manager value, not a licensing result.

The report's administrative character also determines how the record should be presented. The source exposes identity, contact, and manager fields, not ratings, quality findings, or endorsement. Listing a record in this evidence context should therefore remain descriptive and source-linked rather than evaluative.

Limits and what to verify next

The July 2026 revision supplies a dated freshness context for the fields described here. A reader who needs current information should verify the record against the current NYSDOH source rather than treating the July 2026 revision as permanently current.

Where the directory's validated evidence includes an active-manager name match or a closed-firm conflict result, those are distinct verification outputs. They should be read as the specific checks displayed by the validated renderer, not as a general conclusion about the firm or the people associated with it.

A blank, unavailable, or stale administrative field should remain unknown in the directory record. It should not be replaced with an inferred service, location, contact outcome, ownership detail, or quality assessment. The next step is to verify the missing or dated value through the applicable current official evidence.

The Opened Firms report alone does not supply provider services, ownership, ratings, quality findings, endorsement, or availability. Those subjects require separate current evidence and should not be inferred from the seven administrative fields.

Evidence behind this page

Each point below is restricted to what the cited primary source supports. Administrative listing status is not a quality endorsement.