Assisted living in Washington
DSHS's public lookup exports its licensed assisted living facilities and adult family homes. 6,763 homes are listed as licensed, 6,212 of them small homes. State source (opens in a new tab)
Prices: Assisted living prices aren't published by states; ask each home for a written fee schedule.
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What Washington licenses
- Licensing agency
- WA Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), Residential Care Services
- License types we list
- Assisted Living Facility, Adult Family Home
- Small homes
- Washington's Adult Family Homes are licensed for up to 6 residents (some up to 8); we label them as small homes.
- Memory care
- DSHS flags assisted living facilities with a memory care certification, and adult family homes with a dementia specialty.
How Washington publishes inspections
DSHS posts each license's inspection reports, complaint investigations and enforcement letters on its own lookup site, and its list says whether any are posted. We link to them rather than copy them. State inspection information (opens in a new tab)
What assisted living is
A place to live with meals, help with bathing, dressing and medicines, and someone on hand day and night. It isn’t a nursing home: there’s no round-the-clock nursing. Find nursing homes →
Small homes
Many states license small homes, often a house with 2 to 6 residents, under their own names (adult family home, family care home). We list them with the larger ones and label each as a small home with its bed count.
The state’s safety record
Where a state publishes its inspection findings, we show them in the state’s own words and scale, with the period and source. We don’t score, rank or sort homes by them.
By county
Counted by the home’s address. Each link opens the homes near a ZIP code in that county.
Source: WA Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), Residential Care Services. A license and an inspection record are not a recommendation. See every state we cover.