Virginia senior care research
Virginia Senior Care Research
SeniorTrustHub organizes Virginia DSS Assisted Living licenses as a complete official search universe, keeps Adult Day Centers separate, and overlays CMS Nursing Homes, Home Health, and Hospice without combining them. Assisted living is not a nursing home. No score and no ranking.
Separate official universes
Source families, not one Virginia senior-provider total
Virginia DSS Assisted Living, Virginia DSS Adult Day, CMS Nursing Homes, CMS Home Health, and CMS Hospice are not added together. Assisted living is not a nursing home. A state license is not a CMS CCN. No score and no ranking.
573
Licensed DSS Assisted Living Facilities
Complete official search universe. VA-DSS-ALF:{licenseId}.
38,010
Licensed ALF capacity
Sum of source licensed-capacity fields. Not occupancy.
7,032
ALF inspection observations
One DSS inspection row = one observation.
289
CMS Nursing Homes in Virginia
Independent overlay · as of 2026-08-01
237
CMS Home Health in Virginia
Independent overlay. Not a VDH HCO roster.
110
CMS Hospice in Virginia
Independent overlay. Not a VDH hospice roster.
Trace this number
Count distinct licenseId values in the official licensedFacilities list where pagination.total equals detail count (573 = 573).
- Source: VDSS DOLP Assisted Living Facility Search JSON
- Agency clock: Unknown / source unavailable
- Source grain: licensed ALF; VA-DSS-ALF:{licenseId}
- Numerator: 573
- Denominator: 573
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: Not unique businesses by another key. Not nursing homes. Not occupancy.
Trace this number
Sum facilityLicense.capacity across all 573 licensed ALF details. None missing.
- Source: VDSS DOLP facilityLicense.capacity
- Agency clock: Unknown / source unavailable
- Source grain: licensed capacity, not current occupancy
- Numerator: 38,010
- Denominator: 573
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: Licensed capacity is not occupancy and is not a quality measure.
Virginia-specific prize
Assisted living is a DSS license, not a CMS nursing home
The Virginia Department of Social Services Division of Licensing Programs licenses Assisted Living Facilities. 573 licensed facilities were enumerated from the official search JSON. Identity is VA-DSS-ALF:{licenseId}. Facility name is not identity. Name-only joins to CMS are unsafe and were not attempted.
License types in this snapshot: 277 1YR, 211 2YR, 53 3YR, 25 COND, 7 PROV. Those are license terms, not quality tiers. Qualifications such as Assisted Living, Special Care, Non-Ambulatory, Ambulatory Only, and ResidentialOnly are regulatory designations, not ratings. Licensed capacity is not occupancy.
Inspection intelligence
Inspection flags are observations, not guilt
7,032 inspection observations were returned for 571 of 573 licensed ALFs. 2,488 observations have a non-zero complaintNumber. 4,066 have violations=Y.
A complaint-related inspection is not a substantiated complaint. Violations=Y is not the number of violations. An inspection is not a disciplinary action. No violation shown is not a perfect facility. Detailed violation PDFs were not crawled.
Trace this number
Count inspectionsList rows across 573 ALF details. 571 facilities returned at least one observation.
- Source: VDSS DOLP inspectionsList
- Agency clock: Unknown / source unavailable
- Source grain: one inspection row = one observation
- Numerator: 7,032
- Denominator: 573
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: Not a deficiency count. Two facilities returned zero inspection rows — unknown, not zero guilt.
Trace this number
Count inspection rows whose complaintNumber is not 0.
- Source: inspectionsList.complaintNumber != 0
- Agency clock: Unknown / source unavailable
- Source grain: inspection observation with a non-zero complaintNumber
- Numerator: 2,488
- Denominator: 7,032
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: Complaint-related inspection is not a substantiated complaint and is not a TrustHub score.
Trace this number
Count inspection rows where violations is Y.
- Source: inspectionsList.violations
- Agency clock: Unknown / source unavailable
- Source grain: source Yes/No flag, not a violation count
- Numerator: 4,066
- Denominator: 7,032
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: Y is not the number of violations. N is not a perfect facility.
Federal spine
CMS Nursing Homes, Home Health, and Hospice stay separate
CMS Virginia overlays are 289 Nursing Homes, 237 Home Health agencies, and 110 Hospice providers. They already live in national CMS totals and are not added again. Nursing Home != Home Health != Hospice. CMS star ratings are not a TrustHub rating.
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Accepted national geography partition for state=VA.
- Source: CMS Nursing Home Provider Information geography VA
- Agency clock: 2026-08-01
- Source grain: CMS Nursing Home CCN
- Numerator: 289
- Denominator: Not a share
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: Already in national CMS totals. Not added again. Not DSS ALF.
VDH easy-win audit
VDH remains a verification path, not a second CMS
The VDH Nursing Home Informational Portal and LTC survey library are useful live verification paths. They are interactive or document-heavy, so they are not bulk acquired here. Search-only is not zero. CMS already supplies the nursing-home backbone.
Same DSS adapter
Adult Day Centers stay a separate class
The same DSS search architecture exposes 82 licensed Adult Day Centers. Adult Day is not Assisted Living and is not a Nursing Home. The classes are not added together.
Trace this number
Count distinct licenseId values in the official ADC licensedFacilities list.
- Source: VDSS DOLP Adult Day Center Search JSON
- Agency clock: Unknown / source unavailable
- Source grain: licensed Adult Day Center
- Numerator: 82
- Denominator: 82
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: Adult Day is not Assisted Living and is not a Nursing Home.
Publication contract
Research identity is not a claimable profile
This ticket does not create public Virginia ALF profile routes and does not broaden claim eligibility. A DSS search result is not a verified organization. SourceAsOf for the DSS JSON is unknown; retrieval date is not a source date.
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State research identities are not public profiles and are not claimable.
- Source: VA-SEN-001 publication contract
- Agency clock: 2026-09-10
- Source grain: claimable profile
- Numerator: 0
- Denominator: 0
- Coverage: ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT
- Limitation: Do not treat 573 ALF identities as 573 claimable organizations.
Source catalog
What was grabbed, and what was left
- Virginia DSS Assisted Living Facility Search. ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT. ALF != nursing home. licenseId != CMS CCN. Licensed capacity != occupancy. 1YR/2YR/3YR/COND/PROV != quality. Qualifications != ratings. SourceAsOf is unknown.
- Virginia DSS ALF inspection observations. ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT. Inspection != deficiency count. Complaint-related (complaintNumber != 0) != substantiated complaint. Violations=Y != number of violations. No-violation shown != perfect facility.
- Virginia DSS Adult Day Center Search. ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT. Adult Day != Assisted Living. Adult Day != Nursing Home.
- CMS Nursing Home Provider Information (VA overlay). ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT. Not summed with DSS ALF or Adult Day. CMS CERTIFIED != STATE LICENSED.
- CMS Home Health Care Agencies (VA overlay). ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT. No trivial VDH HCO bulk roster acquired. Office geography is not a service area.
- CMS Hospice General Information (VA overlay). ACQUIRED_CURRENT_SNAPSHOT. HOSPICE != HOME HEALTH. Do not infer a VDH hospice license solely from CMS.
- VDH Nursing Home Informational Portal. OPEN_SEARCH_ONLY. Search-only is not zero. CMS already supplies the nursing-home backbone.
- GRABBED — HIGH YIELD. VDSS DOLP Assisted Living Facility Search JSON — Paginated official JSON, 573/573 licensed ALFs, licenseId identity, capacity, qualifications, license type/expiration, inspection flags.
- GRABBED — HIGH YIELD. VDSS ALF facility-detail inspection JSON — Same adapter. Inspection-level Yes/No violation and complaintNumber. Did not chase violation PDFs.
- GRABBED — EASY SECONDARY. VDSS Adult Day Center Search JSON — Same search architecture, endpoint=adc. 82 licensed centers. Kept as a separate class.
- LEFT — SEARCH ONLY. VDH Nursing Home Informational Portal — Interactive portal / Salesforce. CMS already provides the nursing-home spine.
- LEFT — TOO MUCH WORK FOR CURRENT YIELD. VDH LTC inspection/survey PDF library — Per-facility document crawl. Not required to close statewide Virginia Senior.
- LEFT — SEARCH ONLY. VDH home care / hospice licensing portal — No trivial statewide public roster. CMS HHA/Hospice overlays retained.
- LEFT — TOO MUCH WORK FOR CURRENT YIELD. DSS ALF violation-detail PDFs — Inspection-level flags are sufficient for this ticket.
- LEFT — SEARCH ONLY. Inspector and administrator contact fields — Present on source JSON; stripped from publication. Not facility identity.
- LEFT — LOCAL / FUTURE. Virginia city/county pages — Statewide first. No Fairfax/Richmond/Virginia Beach routes.
- LEFT — REQUEST ONLY. FOIA / CORA-style DSS extracts — Not requested. Public search JSON was enough.