Independent · no facility pays to appear · built on public records
See what the sales brochure won’t show you.
The honest record on nursing homes, assisted living, and memory care — inspections, violations, and ownership in plain English, with nothing sold to a salesperson.
No forms. Browse every facility without an account or a phone number.
No sales calls. We never ask for a phone number and we never sell your information — we collect nothing personal unless you ask us to. The ads on the page are Google's and set cookies; what that means →
No pay-to-play. Every Medicare- or Medicaid-certified nursing home is here, ranked by public data — never by who paid. (Assisted living we can only publish where the state publishes a roster.)
87,397
facilities indexed — nursing homes, assisted living & memory care, CCRCs, affordable housing, and home care. Nursing homes: all 50 states, DC and the territories. Assisted living: 49 states and Washington, DC — every state except Idaho, whose licensed-facility roster is not publicly downloadable
10,764
nursing homes where we trace the money flowing to commonly-owned companies — from the Medicare cost report
$0
what you pay, and what a facility can pay us to change what you see
What makes Eldercare Lens different
Find care near you
Every kind of care — nursing homes, assisted living, CCRCs, affordable housing, home health — ranked by distance from your ZIP. No sign-in.
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Follow the money
We reproduce each nursing home’s revenue, operating margin, and dollars paid to related landlords and management companies — the private-equity money trail, straight from the federal cost reports most consumer sites never open.
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Plan the whole road ahead
A private, free planner — tell it the plan is for a parent and it builds every projection around them: the cost of care, taxes and estate, and how long savings last. Nothing sold, saved to your device.
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Plain-English, and honest
Every citation translated, every rating un-blended, plus an “Insights” read on each home. We take no money from any facility — there’s no lead form to sell.
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We run the numbers ourselves
Original analysis of the public record — starting with how many US nursing homes fall short of the staffing standard Congress blocked, state by state, with the method shown so you can check it.
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Start where you are
Not sure what kind of care?
Answer six questions to find the right level — home care, assisted living, memory care, or a nursing home.
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Comparing places?
Search every nursing home, assisted-living community, CCRC, and home-care provider near you by rating, staffing, and record — then put finalists side by side.
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Paying for it — or planning before you need to?
Build a private plan for a parent or for yourself, whether care starts next week or years from now. Project the cost, see how long savings last, and weigh Medicaid, VA, and insurance.
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Trying to understand it all?
Plain-English guides — costs, Medicare vs. Medicaid, choosing a home, dementia care, and residents’ rights.
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Everything on the site
Find care near me
The fastest way in — enter your ZIP or share your location and see every kind of care nearby, ranked by distance.
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Nursing homes
All 50 states — the un-blended CMS rating, inspections, fines, staffing, ownership, the cost-report finances, and chain comparison.
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Assisted living & memory care
Licensed communities in 49 states and DC — with the state’s own inspection and violation record wherever the state publishes one, and no fabricated ratings anywhere.
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Home care & hospice
Medicare-rated home-health agencies and hospices by state, linked to the full Care Compare record.
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Affordable senior housing
HUD Section 202 & USDA 515 subsidized apartments for adults 62+ — the honest option when assisted living is out of reach.
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CCRCs / Life Plan
Continuing care retirement communities from public state registries — independent living through skilled nursing on one campus.
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My Plan
A private planner for the whole road ahead — for a parent or for yourself, from before care is needed through retirement, the care years, taxes, and estate. Free, saved to your device.
Start planning →
Calculators
19 free tools — Social Security, care cost, drawdown, RMDs, Medicaid, VA, Medicare, and more. Nothing saved, nothing sold.
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Guides
48 plain-English explainers on paying for care, choosing a home, dementia, Medicaid, and your legal rights.
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Why this exists
Choosing a nursing home is one of the highest-stakes decisions a family makes, usually in a crisis. The information that matters — real inspection findings, staffing, fines, and who owns the place — is public, but it’s scattered across government sites, written in regulatory code, and buried under referral services paid a commission by the very facilities they recommend.
Eldercare Lens puts it in one place, in plain English, and takes money from no facility. We separate the government’s independent inspection score from the ratings a facility reports about itself, translate every citation, total the fines, and trace the ownership. Here’s exactly how →