Assisted living in Washington
555 licensed communities · 540 have an inspection or enforcement document on file. Listed alphabetically — Washington State publishes no severity, so there is nothing here to rank by.
This state publishes the document, not the severity.
Washington State posts that it issued a statement of deficiency or an enforcement action, but not how serious the finding was — and a statement of deficiency can be anything from a forced medication pass to a missing signature. So nothing below is marked a serious violation, and nothing below is ranked: we list alphabetically. More paperwork on file is not the same as being worse, and ordering these communities by how thick their file is would be our guess at severity dressed up as the state’s finding. Open a community’s state report to read the actual citation.
What Washington licenses — and why this total isn’t comparable to another state’s
There is no national definition of “assisted living.” Each state decides what it licenses and what to call it, so a state total counts whatever that state chose to license — state counts on this site are not comparable to each other, and a bigger number does not mean more assisted living. Here that total is:
- 555 Assisted living
Memory care isn’t marked here — because the state doesn’t publish it.
Washington State’s licensing file carries no memory-care or dementia-unit designation, so we cannot tell you which of these communities has one. There certainly are memory-care communities in this state — we just have no authoritative list of them, and we won’t guess from a community’s name. Ask any community directly whether it runs a secured dementia unit, and ask your Long-Term Care Ombudsman ↗ which local communities take dementia residents.
Median private-pay cost, CareScout (Genworth) 2025 Cost of Care Survey — a regional midpoint, not any single community’s rate. Private rooms and higher care levels cost more; ask for a current quote. Project your own in the cost-of-care planner.
† Memory care is our estimate, not survey data: CareScout does not survey memory care, so we take the assisted-living median for the state and add $1,200/month — the typical secured-dementia-unit premium. It is a planning figure with no state-level detail behind it, and real memory-care pricing varies far more than that. Treat it as a starting point and ask the community for its own memory-care rate.
Estimated cost range · regional
In Washington, assisted living typically runs about $6,100–$9,100/month.
This is a regional estimate modeled from published survey data (the CareScout/Genworth state median, ±20%) — not this community’s actual price, which it sets privately. Ask the community for its current all-in monthly rate and what each care level adds.
Paying with Medicaid
Washington Medicaid can help pay for assisted living — through a waiver, not through regular Medicaid.
The Washington waiver that can pay for it:
- COPES Waiver — covers in-home care / adult family home / assisted living / adult day care
In Washington: apply or check eligibility ↗ or call 877-501-2233.
A waiver pays for care, not for rent. Even where the state covers assisted-living services, room and board is still the resident’s to pay. Full eligibility limits — income, assets, the look-back — are on our Washington Medicaid page.
555 communities — scroll within the box to see all.