Albany Senior AdvisorWhere do Albany Senior Advisor's facts come from?
Rules trace to the New York statute, regulation or Department of Health publication that states them, prices to CareScout's 2025 New York tables, Medicaid figures to the department's GIS messages, population to the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimates, local agencies to state and county directories, and pension amounts to the VA's rate tables.
- NYSDOH, Adult Care Facilities/Assisted Living
- NYS Health Profiles: Adult Care Facilities and Nursing Homes
- NYSDOH Health Facility General Information (health.data.ny.gov vn5v-hh5r)
- NYSDOH Adult Care Facility Quarterly Statistical Information Report (h5s5-hcxg)
- N.Y. Social Services Law 461-a (adult care facility inspections)
- NYSDOH, Nursing Home Minimum Staffing and Direct Resident Care Spending
- NYSDOH GIS 26 MA/03 and 26 MA/05 (2026 Medicaid levels)
- NYSDOH GIS 25 MA/14 (2026 regional rates for transfer penalties)
- NYS OTDA 2026 SSI maximum monthly benefit amounts
- CMS Care Compare Provider Information (data.cms.gov 4pq5-n9py)
- CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025
- VA Veterans Pension rates
- U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates
- NYSDOH Long Term Care Ombudsman Program Directory
- NYSDOH, Nursing Homes: Regional Offices
- NYS Unified Court System, Elder Justice resource directory (3rd and 4th Judicial Districts)
- Columbia County Office for the Aging
- St. Peter's Health Partners, Eddy SeniorCare (PACE)
What will Albany Senior Advisor not publish?
Anything we cannot trace to a primary source: estimated local prices, facility details that appear only in marketing, reviews or testimonials, and ratings or rankings of our own.
- No Albany-only cost median: CareScout publishes New York statewide medians, and Medicaid publishes a regional rate.
- No memory care median: CareScout does not survey memory care.
- No assisted living ratings: neither New York nor CMS rates assisted living, and we will not make one up.
- No facility details from operator websites or brochures.
How often is the Capital Region directory refreshed?
It is rebuilt from the Department of Health roster and quarterly capacity report (currently 2026 Q2), NYS Health Profiles records (retrieved November 6, 2026) and CMS's Provider Information dataset (data as of October 1, 2026) each time the fetch script runs, normally once a quarter.
Every listing shows its source and data date, and sitemap dates change only when a page's content really changes.
How are CMS ratings and New York inspection records presented?
Nursing home stars appear only for CMS-certified homes, exactly as CMS issued them and with CMS's data date; assisted living residences get no rating at all, only the inspection reports, violation counts and enforcement actions NYS Health Profiles lists.
Any comparison we make, such as a home's reported nursing hours against New York's 3.5-hour floor or a residence's violations against the regional median, is simple arithmetic on published numbers, and the page names the benchmark.
How does Albany Senior Advisor correct mistakes?
Email advisors@albanysenioradvisor.com with the page and what you believe is wrong; if the mistake is ours we fix it and rebuild, and if the figure comes from the Department of Health or CMS we point you to the agency that maintains it.
Before changing anything about a New York rule or benefit amount, we recheck the regulation, GIS message or agency page it cites. Operators can ask us to fix how their data is displayed, not to change what the state published.
