About PA Care Finder
A free directory of every licensed personal care home in Pennsylvania.
Why this exists
Finding a personal care home for an aging parent or loved one is stressful, time-sensitive, and opaque. The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services publishes a list of every licensed facility, but the raw spreadsheet is hard to search, hard to read, and missing the basics you actually need when you’re comparing options at 11 p.m. after work.
PA Care Finder takes that same public data and turns it into something a family member can actually use: search by city, see the location on a map, get the phone number in one tap, and read what other families have said. No account required, no paywall, no placement agents pushing you toward homes that pay the biggest commission.
Who built this
Hi — I’m Frezer Kifle. I built PA Care Finder as a one-person project because I kept seeing how hard it was for families to get straight answers about care options in Pennsylvania. The existing sites that serve this space are either owned by large placement agencies with a financial incentive to steer you somewhere, or so old and clunky that they’re effectively unusable on a phone.
I’m an engineer, not a care professional. That means I can make the data easy to navigate, but I don’t pretend to give medical advice. Everything on this site is factual information from public records plus the experiences of other families. When you’re ready to make a decision, you should always visit a home in person and verify current licensing with the state.
Questions, corrections, or ideas? Email me directly at leads@pacarefinder.com.
How we source our data
Every listing on PA Care Finder comes directly from the Pennsylvania Open Data Portal, which publishes the official registry of facilities licensed by the Department of Human Services (DHS). We do not add homes from other sources, and we do not accept paid listings.
Last data refresh: April 2026. We refresh from the state portal on a regular cadence and display the current address, phone number, capacity, and license type for each home. We geocode addresses so you can see each facility on a map.
Because licensing changes faster than we can re-crawl, you should always verify the current license status directly with the state before signing any paperwork. The DHS provider-search tool is the authoritative source for the moment a license is suspended, revoked, or renewed.
What is a Personal Care Home?
A Personal Care Home (PCH) is a licensed residential facility that provides food, shelter, personal assistance, and supervision to adults who need help with daily living but do not require nursing-home-level medical care. This is the level of care commonly called “assisted living” in other states, though Pennsylvania has its own separate Assisted Living Residence license category for facilities providing a higher level of care.
Reviews
Registered users can leave reviews of any home listed on the site. Every review is moderated before it goes public to filter out spam and anything that violates our community guidelines. Reviews reflect the individual opinions of the people who wrote them, not PA Care Finder’s endorsement of any particular facility.
How we pay for this site
PA Care Finder is free for families and will stay that way. We cover our costs through two revenue streams:
- Display advertising— we run a small number of ad slots provided by Google AdSense. These ads are clearly labelled and never mixed in with listing data.
- Referral fees from care-search partners— when you use our concierge form on the homepage, we may share your inquiry with licensed senior-care placement partners who pay us a referral fee if they help you find a home. This costs you nothing, and we never sell or share the data you submit through individual-home inquiry forms. See our privacy policy for details on what we collect and how we use it.
We do not accept money from care homes in exchange for being listed, ranked higher, or hidden. Every licensed home in the state appears in our directory on the same terms.
Contact
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