How our data works

Everything comes from official bulk files the agencies publish. Nothing is scraped from CalHealthFind or any internal service.

• Facilities — CDPH Center for Health Care Quality, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing, via the CalHHS Open Data Portal (monthly). The ICF rows give each facility's name, address and coordinates, type, beds, licensee, administrator, license dates, CMS Certification Number and district office. Current file: data as of Oct 16, 2026.
• State citations and penalties — CDPH's State Enforcement Actions dashboard (its data export, refreshed weekly, penalties since 2021) and the archived Health Facilities' State Enforcement Actions file on the CalHHS Open Data Portal (1998 to June 2024). Last saved Oct 26, 2026.
• Federal surveys — CMS's QCOR ICF/IID statement-of-deficiency (CMS-2567) download: every survey of a certified ICF since 2018, each deficiency's tag, level and full narrative. Last saved Oct 26, 2026. Newest survey in the file: Oct 12, 2026.
• Certification — CMS's Provider of Services file (quarterly): last certification survey, ownership-change date, ownership type and reported staffing. Last saved Oct 26, 2026.

The 9-digit CDPH facility ID joins the listing to the state penalties and to CalHealthFind. The CMS Certification Number (CCN) joins the listing to CMS's surveys and Provider of Services file. CDPH's listing is the master record for name, address and beds; CMS data is used only for certification and surveys.

• The listing's metadata is checked daily; its file is downloaded only when CDPH publishes a new one (monthly).
• The enforcement data and CMS's survey file are downloaded weekly; the Provider of Services file quarterly.
• Every file is checked before it replaces the saved copy. A file that suddenly has far fewer facilities or rows than the last one is rejected, and the previous data stays up. A failed download is retried later, waiting longer each time.
• Saves are atomic, so a page never reads a half-written file. Pages read only saved data; a visit never waits on an agency's site.
• Downloads identify this site in their User-Agent and happen once per period.

CDPH's listing has no history of its own and drops closed facilities. We keep a copy of each month's listing and compare it with the last one to record new and departed facilities and changes to names, licensees, administrators, beds and addresses. Federal survey and penalty dates are the agencies' own.

• Complaints and facility-reported incidents: CDPH doesn't publish them in bulk. They're on each facility's CalHealthFind page.
• State licensing deficiencies, plans of correction and ownership chains are on CalHealthFind too.
• CMS says its ICF/IID data is reliable through March 19, 2026, while its systems migrate; later surveys may be incomplete.
• Beds are licensed capacity, not occupancy. Counts of findings say nothing about whether a problem was corrected.

Unlike our sister sites, ICFLookup doesn't offer AI summaries of inspection reports. The federal narratives are shown in full, as CMS published them, under a content note.

Source: CDPH Center for Health Care Quality, Licensing and Certification, via the CalHHS Open Data Portal (healthcare-facility-locations, healthcare-facility-state-enforcement-actions), data as of the dates above, used under the CalHHS Open Data terms. CMS data is a work of the U.S. federal government. ICFLookup reorganizes these records for search; what you see here is not official government data and isn't endorsed by CDPH, CalHHS or CMS.