New York LHCSA Patient Counts by County

New York State data details Licensed Home Care Services Agency (LHCSA) operations at the county level. It includes counts of patients served, licensed servicers, and servicers with or without active patients, compiled by health.data.ny.gov. The data was last updated in February 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic disparities in home care access by comparing Average County Weekly Patients Served across different County of Service entries.
• Monitor LHCSA operational status by tracking the ratio of Number of Licensed LHCSA with Patients Under Care to Number of Licensed LHCSA without Patients Under Care over time.
• Assess county-level provider capacity by joining data on the total Number of Licensed LHCSA with patient service volumes.
• Track temporal changes in service provision by analyzing trends in Average County Weekly Patients Served between Report Start Date and Report End Date.

Strengths

• Data provides county-level granularity for New York State via the County of Service field.
• Includes temporal coverage with explicit Report Start Date and Report End Date columns.

Limitations

• Dataset size, row count, and specific temporal range are unknown.
• Lacks demographic or clinical details about the patients served.

Provenance

Source

health.data.ny.gov

Collection Method

Administrative reporting from Licensed Home Care Services Agencies (LHCSAs).

Time Range

Coverage period defined by Report Start Date and Report End Date columns.

Freshness

Updated as of February 2026.

Geography

New York State, broken down by county.