Pennsylvania senior care research
Pennsylvania Senior Care & Long-Term Care Intelligence
SeniorTrustHub organizes Pennsylvania DHS Personal Care Homes and Assisted Living Residences, DOH nursing homes, Home Health, Home Care, and Hospice, Adult Day Centers, LIFE/PACE, and CMS overlays as separate official datasets. They are not one Pennsylvania senior-facilities total. No score and no ranking.
Separate official universes
Provider classes, not one Pennsylvania senior-facilities total
DHS Personal Care Homes are not Assisted Living Residences. DOH nursing homes are not Home Health, not Home Care, and not Hospice. Adult Day Centers and LIFE/PACE are not residential license classes. No Trust Score. No AggregateRating. No ranking.
659
DOH nursing-home license rows
September 2026 licensure/ownership · PA-DOH-NCF
659
DOH Home Health license rows
Medicare-certified + licensed-only · not Home Care
4,656
DOH Home Care license rows
Agencies, agency/registry, and registry
178
DOH Hospice license rows
Hospice is not Home Health
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- Source: https://apps.health.pa.gov/NCFFacilities/NCFOwnerLicensePull_202609.aspx
- Agency clock: 2026-09
- Source grain: PA-DOH-NCF:{facilityId} from September 2026 licensure/ownership table
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: State nursing-home license identities, not CMS Nursing Home CCNs. 659 DOH rows matching 659 Home Health rows is coincidence, not a bridge.
DHS Personal Care Homes and Assisted Living
Current PCH and ALR rosters remain official search
The DHS Human Services Provider Directory is live search. This snapshot does not publish a current PCH or ALR facility count from that directory. The August 2026 PCH monthly report is an aggregate from the most recent inspection, which may be up to a year old. 995 monthly-report homes are not PCH+ALR and are not facility identity records. Licensed capacity 61,906 is not 38,898 residents.
995
PCH monthly-report homes (Aug 2026)
Not real-time · not a PCH roster
Search only
Current PCH roster
OPEN_SEARCH_ONLY · not zero
Search only
Current ALR roster
PCH is not ALR
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- Source: https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dhs/resources/data-reports/personal-care-homes-monthly-report
- Agency clock: 2026-08
- Source grain: August 2026 statewide PCH monthly report TOTAL homes
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: Aggregate from the most recent inspection, which may be up to a year old. Not a current PCH+ALR roster and not facility identities.
Federal overlay
CMS Pennsylvania directories stay on CCN identity
CMS Nursing Home CCN is not a DOH facility ID. 656 CMS nursing homes versus 659 DOH license rows is not a bridge. Exact source-published 39xxxxx Medicare IDs: nursing homes 647, Home Health Medicare 403, Hospice 152. Home Care Medicare ID values are not CMS CCNs.
656
CMS Nursing Homes in Pennsylvania
415
CMS Home Health Agencies in Pennsylvania
179
CMS Hospice providers in Pennsylvania
Trace this number
- Source: https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/
- Agency clock: 2026-08-27
- Source grain: CMS Nursing Home CCN with state = PA
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: CMS certification is not a DOH nursing-home license. 656 CMS vs 659 DOH is not an identity bridge.
Sanctions, surveys, inspections
Sanctions are not surveys and not complaints
The DOH Q4 2025 sanctions PDF is a numbered-row extract with 1,539 rows and 1,533 unique facility-id + date matters. A sanction is not an inspection, not a complaint, and not a conviction. Statewide survey and DHS inspection tables remain search-only. Name-only adverse joins are unsafe. Exact profile attachments: 0.
Adult Day and LIFE/PACE
Program centers are not facility license classes
Adult Day Centers remain official search/licensure. LIFE/PACE is a program network revised August 2026: 24 providers and 58 centers. LIFE participation is not a PCH, ALR, or nursing-home license. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are not SeniorTrustHub intelligence routes.
No Trust Score. No AggregateRating. Missing and search-only evidence is unknown, not zero. Source clocks: DHH/NCF September 2026; PCH monthly August 2026; LIFE revised August 2026; sanctions PDF Q4 2025 compilation. retrievedAt is not sourceAsOf. Fingerprint 460c6865eb7c3fdb040c95768f42e8ef90009fe9f6f80571c3268d5944ae7fed.