Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE) license & inspection records — California

8428 facilities across 538 cities, from the California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division. state record as of 2026-09-06

What California’s record carries: License / file no., License status, Capacity, Last visit / inspection, Inspection visits, Complaints, Citations / deficiencies. Facilities are listed alphabetically within each city; order never implies quality.

What the California record carries

License / file no.FACILITYNUMBER — present on 8428 of 8428 rows
License statusSTATUS — present on 8428 of 8428 rows
CapacityCAPACITY — present on 8428 of 8428 rows
Last visit / inspectionLASTVISITDATE — present on 8384 of 8428 rows
Inspection visitsNBRINSPVISITS (inspection visits) — present on 8428 of 8428 rows
ComplaintsNBRCMPLTVISITS (complaint visits) — present on 8428 of 8428 rows
Citations / deficienciesTOTTYPEA + TOTTYPEB (Type A and Type B citations, as counted on the state's page) — present on 8428 of 8428 rows

CDSS counts visits and citations for the window its Care Facility Search covers; the API does not state the window. Type A citations are what CDSS calls the most serious class; Type B are the less serious class. This site shows the two counts separately, exactly as the state's record gives them.

The last-visit date is CDSS's LASTVISITDATE for any visit type (inspection, complaint or other).

Source: CDSS Community Care Licensing Facilities (ArcGIS feature layer, TYPE 740 = RESIDENTIAL-ELDERLY); per-facility detail: CDSS Care Facility Search — Transparency API, FacilityDetail

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