Methodology

Last updated 2026-11-06, computed from the live database on every build.

This site combines several public sources that were never built to talk to each other. The federal locator identifies a facility one way; a state license register identifies the same facility a different way, sometimes under a different legal name at a different suite number in the same building. Joining them is a real engineering problem, it fails in measurable ways, and publishing the failure rate is more useful to a reader than pretending it doesn't happen.

How listings are ordered, and who pays

Search results list records that have a website and a map location first, then sort by name. Nothing else affects order, and no facility pays to change it (editorial policy).

What "checked" means

Every fact on a facility page carries the date it was read from its source. That is not the date the underlying fact changed — a license read on 2026-09-24 was true as of whenever the state last updated its own register, which the register itself does not always date. Treat the checked date as "this is what the source said when we last looked," not as a guarantee of the current moment.

How a license record gets matched to a facility record

State license files publish a name, an address and (usually) a zip code, but not the federal record identifier the rest of this site is keyed on. Matching is done on normalized name, street and zip. A record that doesn't clear that bar is left unmatched rather than force-fit — a wrong match, attaching one facility's license (or, in Arizona's case, its enforcement history) to a different facility, is the one class of error on this site that would be actively harmful, so the matcher is deliberately conservative.

The consequence is a real, nonzero rate of state-licensed facilities that this site cannot yet connect to a federal record. Most of those are not matching failures — they're facilities that are licensed by a state but were never in the federal survey to begin with. Some genuinely are matching failures. Both look the same in the numbers below; we haven't yet separated them for every state.

State	License records	Matched to a facility page	Match rate
AZ	4,328	486	11.2%
CA	2,266	724	32%
FL	2,347	280	11.9%
NY	838	266	31.7%
TN	2,373	415	17.5%
TX	1,078	382	35.4%
WA	1,027	314	30.6%

A low match rate is not a low-quality state file — it usually means that state licenses many more facility types than the federal survey covers. Where a license goes unmatched, the record itself isn't discarded; see "What happens to unmatched records" below.

Why some pages are marked "noindex"

A record with almost nothing published about it — no website, no coordinates, no street address, and a short federal service list — is real and stays on the site, but is marked noindex, follow rather than submitted for search indexing. That is a statement about how much this specific page has to show a search engine, never about whether the facility itself is legitimate. Any record carrying a state license, a compliance record, a review aggregate, or facts read from the facility's own website is indexed regardless of the other signals — see the code for the exact rule, which is public in the same repository this site is built from.

What happens to unmatched records

Currently: they exist in the underlying data and are not yet published as their own pages. That's a real gap — some of those 11,390 unmatched license records describe facilities, with real addresses and real license numbers, that this site does not yet show anyone. Publishing them as their own record type is on the list; until then, treat "not on this site" as "not yet matched," not as "not licensed."

Known error modes

A facility that changed its name after the last federal refresh may show under its old name.
A chain with one website serving several locations can have facts extracted from that website attached to each location, even where a fact (like a price) applies to only one campus. Where this is known to happen, the page says so.
Two differently-spelled versions of one city (for example "LaGrange" and "Lagrange") are merged onto one city page under whichever spelling has more facilities behind it.
Review aggregates come from a single third-party source per platform today; the "spread between sources" this site's design assumes is only as wide as the sources actually collected.