Our data and sources
Every licensed care home for the elderly in California (the state calls them RCFEs), built from the state’s public records. Free to use.
- Homes
- 8,620 licensed homes in 48 counties. Homes that are no longer licensed stay on the site with their closed status, for 9,393 records in all.
- Updated
- Every week, most recently on November 12, 2026.
- Paid placement
- None. No home pays to appear or to rank higher.
Where the facts come from
- License, capacity, address and the care a home is licensed for
- California Department of Social Services (CDSS), Community Care Licensing Division.
- Citations, complaints and inspection reports
- CDSS public reports. Their words are quoted as the state wrote them.
- Medi-Cal (Assisted Living Waiver)
- The Department of Health Care Services list of homes in the program.
- Prices, photos and daily life
- The home itself, its website, a listing site or Google, each named where it appears.
- Cost ranges by county
- Published cost-of-care surveys. A range describes a county, never one home’s price.
How homes are ordered and how we are paid: How we work.
Using the data
Our compilation is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with credit to Covelight Care and a link. Keep “not on file” as it is: an empty record is not a “no.” For research or bulk use, write to us. Found an error? Suggest a correction.
Source data: California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division (ccld.dss.ca.gov); the California Health and Human Services Agency Open Data Portal (data.chhs.ca.gov); Department of Health Care Services Assisted Living Waiver lists. Used under the CalHHS Open Data Portal terms of use, which require this attribution. This site presents a modified compilation of those records. It is not the official record of, and is not endorsed by, the State of California or any of its agencies. The official record: the CDSS Care Facility Search at ccld.dss.ca.gov.