Where the records come from
Nursing homes: the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) publish the Provider Data files behind Medicare Care Compare. We use three of them: provider information, health deficiencies and penalties. Assisted living homes: the California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division, publishes each home's license, visits, citations and complaint outcomes.
What we show
We copy the regulators' numbers and wording without changing them. Inspection findings for nursing homes cover the last three inspection cycles. Fines and payment denials cover the last three years. For assisted living, counts come from the state's public record for each home.
What we do not show
We do not publish names of residents, staff or administrators. When a license is held by an individual and not a company, we do not reprint that person's name; the state record has it.
How to read a record
A finding or citation means an inspector recorded that a rule was not met on that visit. Most are corrected. A large home is inspected more and can have more findings than a small one, so compare homes of similar size and read what the findings were about.
Limits
Records lag behind events. A complaint allegation is a claim until the state substantiates it. SeniorProven does not rate, recommend or sell placements, and takes no payment from homes for their position.
State inspection records are loaded for 509 of 7,944 assisted living homes so far. The list of homes comes from the state file dated May 25, 2025.