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How do you look up a licensed assisted living facility in Virginia?

To look up a licensed assisted living facility in Virginia, use the Virginia Department of Social Services’ Assisted Living Facility Search: type the facility’s name, or filter by city or county, zip code and special services. VDSS: Assisted Living Facility Search

VDSS says its searches are where you view a facility’s inspections and violations. Here is what counts as one, and what to do if you run one.

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The search

By name. Type the facility’s name and search. VDSS: Assisted Living Facility Search
By place. Pick the city or county, or a zip code.
By service. Filter for non-ambulatory residents, assisted living care or a special care unit.
Read the record. Inspections and violations are listed for each licensed facility.

What counts

VDSS licenses assisted living facilities: homes that give personal and health care services and 24-hour supervision to four or more adults who are aged or infirm or who have disabilities. VDSS: assisted living facilities
An assisted living facility is not a nursing home. Nursing homes are regulated by the Virginia Department of Health. VDSS: assisted living facilities
Smaller homes, and group homes for people with developmental disabilities, are licensed differently. Virginia’s kinds of home.

Checked against each linked page on 2 November 2026. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the rule itself, or the agency, has the final word.

If you run one

Use the name on your license. Families and case managers check you on the VDSS search, so the name on your site should match it exactly. VDSS: Assisted Living Facility Search
Say what you’re set up for. If you take residents who can’t walk on their own, or run a special care unit, say so in plain words near the top.
Make the next step easy. Real photos, a phone that gets answered and a tour form: what a group home website should include.

What you get

The website, the flyer and the rest, for one price.

Everything in the $300

Your own website with your services, your house, requirements, questions and answers, and contact info.
Contact and tour forms so families can reach you any time, day or night.
Better photos of your house, made from the ones you send us. No photos yet? We make pictures for your site.
Your admin page to see messages, reply, post updates and send newsletters.
Email newsletters a sign-up box on your site, and you send updates to families from your admin page.
A flyer to match your site with a QR code, ready to print.
A logo if you need one (free) at no extra charge.
Set up on Google so families can find you.
Ready for ChatGPT and AI search set up so ChatGPT and other AI assistants can read your site and point families to it.
Web address with the first year included yours to keep.
About 3 business days from your details to your live site, for most sites.

$300 one-time. Monthly or yearly plans, add any time: Fast Lane $20, Full Care $50 or Unlimited $100 a month, or $100, $500 or $1,000 a year paid up front ($8.33, $41.67 or $83.33 a month). We stay with you after launch.

Start

$300, flat. Send your name and a way to reach you, and your site is usually live in about 3 business days, with a free logo if you need one.