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Home Care Market — District of Columbia

Researching: Official source and access being evaluated.
The official source and access method are being evaluated. No figures are published. District of Columbia licenses home care providers as “Home Care Agency”. This profile records who licenses home care in District of Columbia, which official records exist and where coverage stands.
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Licensing authority
DC Health (District of Columbia Department of Health)(opens in a new tab)
State license term
Home Care Agency
Official sources
4
Identified by research; none configured yet
Research verification
Oct 5, 2026
Verified by loading the official page

Coverage status

Current status: Researching. Next: Confirm access to the official source, its fields and its update cadence, then build and test a connector. No date is promised.

  1. Source research(completed)Oct 5, 2026

    Verified by loading the official page

  2. Connector built(in progress)In progress

    Access, fields and cadence confirmed, then a connector is built for the source.

  3. Test ingestion(not started)

    Official file retrieved, stored unchanged and parsed.

  4. Output review(not started)

    Changes compared to the source by hand on a sample of records before anything is published.

  5. Beta, then Live(not started)

    Figures publish with a Beta label first. Live requires a verified source, repeatable ingestion and reviewed output.

Official sources

From HomeCareIntent's source research. Cadence is quoted as the source states it, separate from how often HomeCareIntent checks.

Registry entry

Federal CMS data covers Medicare-certified home health agencies only and is not used as non-medical home care coverage.

Licensing authority

  • DC Health (District of Columbia Department of Health)(opens in a new tab)

    Health Regulation and Licensing Administration (HRLA) - Office of Health Facilities / Health Care Facilities Division

    Licenses Home Care Agencies (single license covering skilled nursing, therapy, home health aide and personal care aide services, per secondary sources) and hospices under D.C. Code 44-501 et seq.; state survey agency for Medicare certification. Licensing transactions run through a login-only Salesforce portal (dohenterprise.my.site.com/facilities).

Definitions: how District of Columbia names home care

State license term
Home Care Agency
Non-medical licensing
Partly. Some non-medical services are licensed or registered.
License types
  • Home Care Agency (counted)
  • Hospice Agency (not counted)
Notes
Non-medical personal care is not a separate license class; per secondary sources it falls under the Home Care Agency license. DC Health portal alert: on May 13, 2026 CMS issued a six-month moratorium on new home health and hospice enrollment, affecting Home Care Agency applicants seeking CMS certification.

Terminology varies by state. HomeCareIntent uses each state's own term on its pages and maps it to a common category. Glossary

What the Index will publish for District of Columbia

Fixed definitions, applied the same way in every state once it is Live.

Methodology
Agencies tracked
Home care organizations holding at least one active license of a type the state's own rules define as relevant. Hospice-only organizations are excluded.
New agencies (30 and 90 days)
Organizations first licensed, or first detected, inside the trailing window. Shown only after HomeCareIntent has observed the whole window.
Licensing events (30 days)
New licenses and locations, closures, status, administrator, licensee and address changes. Dated by the source where it publishes a date.
New agencies per month
A 12-month series. Months before HomeCareIntent's history for a state begins are marked “Not tracked,” never drawn as zero.
Top markets
Cities ranked by tracked organizations. Cities with fewer than three are not ranked.

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