Licensed Home Care Agency Registration Status in New York State, 2019

Registration status for each Licensed Home Care Services Agency (LHCSA) in New York State for the 2019 calendar year. The data is provided by the New York State Department of Health and was last updated in November 2019. Each agency must register annually to provide services, bill, and avoid fines.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic distribution of active vs. inactive providers using Region, City, and Zip Code columns.
• Track registration timelines and status changes using License Date, Submission Date, and Registration Status columns.
• Link provider entities to other healthcare datasets using the NPI Number and License Number identifiers.
• Validate and standardize provider addresses for service area mapping using the Address, City, State, and Zip Code columns.

Strengths

• Data includes unique identifiers like NPI Number and License Number for entity linking.
• Contains 12 columns covering administrative, geographic, and status information for each agency.
• Specific temporal scope defined as calendar year 2019.

Limitations

• Last updated 2019-11-08 16:34:31; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

New York State Department of Health via health.data.ny.gov.

Collection Method

Annual mandatory registration submissions by Licensed Home Care Services Agencies.

Time Range

2019 calendar year.

Freshness

Static snapshot for 2019; no update frequency specified.

Geography

New York State, USA.