How we research state home care rules
You are being asked to trust regulatory summaries from a company that also wants to sell you a manual. That is a fair thing to be skeptical about, so here is exactly how the content on this site is produced and where we deliberately refuse to guess.
Who writes this
Larry Osakwe is the founder of HomeCare Agency Policies. He is not a lawyer, a compliance consultant, or a former state surveyor. He builds the state-specific policy manuals this site sells, and researches every regulatory claim on it against the state's own rule text and the licensing agency's published documents.
That matters for how you should read these pages. The value here is not professional judgment about your agency, it is that someone traced each requirement back to the rule that creates it and showed you the link, so you can check the claim yourself in about a minute.
The rules we hold ourselves to
Primary sources, or we leave it out
Every rule citation on this site is read from the state's own regulation text or the licensing agency's published application and guidance, not from another vendor's blog. Where the primary source blocks automated access we retrieve it another way rather than substituting a secondary summary.
We stop where the state stops
If a state does not publish a deadline, an inspection interval, or a correction process, we say so instead of borrowing a plausible-sounding number from another state. Several pages on this site say 'the rule does not specify' for exactly this reason.
Secondary sources get checked, and they are often wrong
Verifying California's penalties against the statute showed that the agency and vendor blogs repeating a '$900 to $5,000 per violation' figure had it wrong twice over: the $900 is a per-day penalty for operating unlicensed, and the section those articles cite is about impersonating a home care aide, not fines.
We only cover states we can serve honestly
A state gets a page when we can confirm it licenses non-medical home care and requires written policies. Florida and New York are deliberately absent: Florida registers non-medical providers without mandating a policy manual, and New York gates new agencies behind a public-need review that would make a 'how to start' guide misleading.
Every page carries the date it was checked
Verification dates are per page, not site-wide, so re-researching one state never implies we re-checked the others. Regulations change; the date tells you how stale the page might be.
Tell us when we are wrong
Email larry@homecareagencypolicies.com with the page and the rule. Corrections to a cited claim get priority over everything else we are working on.
What that adds up to right now
states with a licensing inspection guide, each researched separately
primary sources linked from those guides, every one publicly checkable
states we researched and then chose not to sell into, because the wedge did not honestly apply
Per-state verification dates appear at the top of each guide. A guide we have not re-checked keeps its original date rather than inheriting a fresher one from somewhere else on the site.
Found something wrong?
Regulations change and we will get things wrong. If a citation on this site does not say what we claim it says, that is the most useful email you can send us.
What this site is not
HomeCare Agency Policies produces self-prepared operational documents from the information you provide. We are not a law firm, are not affiliated with any state agency, and do not guarantee license approval or a passing survey. Confirm current requirements with your licensing authority.