California department of health services licensing and certification

The California Department of Public Health is dedicated to optimizing the health and well-being of the people in California.

Health care facilities in California are licensed, regulated, inspected, and/or certified by a number of public and private agencies at the state and federal levels, including the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Licensing and Certification Program (L&C) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). These agencies have separate – yet sometimes overlapping – jurisdictions. L&C is responsible for ensuring health care facilities comply with state laws and regulations. In addition, L&C cooperates with CMS to ensure that facilities accepting Medicare and Medi-Cal (in California, Medicaid is referred to as Medi-Cal) payments meet federal requirements. L&C also oversees the certification of nurse assistants, home health aides, hemodialysis technicians, and the licensing of nursing home administrators.

__Note:__ This web page provides data on health facilities only. To file a complaint against a facility, please see: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/FileAComplaint.aspx The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Center for Health Care Quality, Licensing and Certification (L&C) Program licenses and certifies more than 30 types of healthcare facilities. The Electronic Licensing Management System (ELMS) is a CDPH data system created to manage state licensing-related data and enforcement actions. This file includes California healthcare facilities that are operational and have a current license issued by the CDPH and/or a current U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) certification. To link the CDPH facility IDs with those from other Departments, like HCAI, please reference the "Licensed Facility Cross-Walk" Open Data table at https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/licensed-facility-crosswalk. Facility geographic variables are updated monthly, if latitude/longitude information is missing at any point in time, it should be available when the next time the Open Data facility file is refreshed. Please note that the file contains the data from ELMS as of the 11th business day of the month. See DATA_DATE variable for the specific date of when the data was extracted. Map of all Health Care Facilities in California: https://arcg.is/1yfun9

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• Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Locations

  Note: This web page provides data on health facilities only. To file a complaint against a facility, please see: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/FileAComplaint.aspx The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Center for Health Care Quality, Licensing and Certification (L&C) Program licenses and certifies more than 30 types of healthcare facilities. The Electronic Licensing Management System (ELMS) is a CDPH data system created to manage state licensing-related data and enforcement actions. This file includes California healthcare facilities that are operational and have a current license issued by the CDPH and/or a current U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) certification. To link the CDPH facility IDs with those from other Departments, like HCAI, please reference the "Licensed Facility Cross-Walk" Open Data table at https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/licensed-facility-crosswalk. Facility geographic variables are updated monthly, if latitude/longitude information is missing at any point in time, it should be available when the next time the Open Data facility file is refreshed. Please note that the file contains the data from ELMS as of the 11th business day of the month. See DATA_DATE variable for the specific date of when the data was extracted. Map of all Health Care Facilities in California: https://arcg.is/1yfun9

• Counts Dashboard-Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility

  This dashboard shows counts of California’s licensed/certified facilities that are currently in operation by facility type, county, or district office. Data is updated monthly. The data source is the State of California Electronic Licensing Management System (ELMS). Last Updated: October 21, 2022.

• Facility List Data Dictionary-Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing

  Licensed and certified healthcare facility Listing data dictionary

• Lookup Table-Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing Lookup Table

• Across Time Summary Data-Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facilities

  This file permits the number of licensed California healthcare facilities to be tracked across time – by year and facility type. CDPH will update this file annually. Data originates from the ELMS data system. The facility count is based on a July "snapshot” and is labeled as the state fiscal year that just ended. Data is updated annually.

• Across Time Dashboard-Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facilities

  This dashboard shows counts of California’s licensed/certified facilities – by facility type and across years. Data is updated annually. The data source is the State of California Electronic Licensing Management System (ELMS). __Note:__ The "Last updated" field at the bottom of the page refers to when the metadata on this page was last updated. It does NOT reflect when the dashboard was last updated. Last Updated: October 2021

• Across Time Data Dictionary-Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facilities

  Data Dictionary that corresponds with the Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facilities Across Time Data File.

• Preserve Leading Zero

• All resource data

• Preserve Leading Zero and Import Code Guide for Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing File

• https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/3b5b80e8-6b8d-4715-b3c0-2699af6e72e5/resource/0b780616-0ee3-45d8-aed1-d4f179d34d05/download/healthcare_facilities_across_time_2020.csv

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