The Largest Senior Care Organizations

This list is in the process of a major revision. The list was originally started as a summary of the largest assisted living and independent living organizations. We are updating it to include organizations and corporations that focus on nursing homes.

Some people prefer a smaller home run by locals and some seniors are happier in a larger corporate-run facility. The larger organizations have deep pockets so they have a greater presence in the market when caregivers are searching for a facility. The larger organizations tend to operate larger assisted living facilities with more standardized services and a wider range of amenities. Many of these larger facilities offer multiple services in one facility, like independent and assisted living. By offering several services that are health-based, seniors can move into a facility and then change their care plan based on their health. This is a great option for many seniors.

The original data for this site was based on government data, so it included many fields like fax number, license number and number of licensed beds. The problem with government data is that they never keep track of other services offered by an organization. For example, they don't track if an assisted living facility also offers independent living. For this reason, Assisted Senior Living started a program for updating the data based on corporate sites. Corporate sites usually don't show license numbers and other fields but they usually show all their services. By cross-referencing the corporate data with the government data, we are building the most complete data of senior care. We strive for 100% accuracy in our data but rarely meet it. Name changes, service changes and other business needs force the senior providers to constantly adapt and cause inaccuracy. Although we are constantly updating the data, we are a small operation.

Who runs the most communities

The company behind a community matters more than most families expect. A large operator sets staffing levels, training and medication policy across every building it owns, so what you find at one location usually holds at the next. If you are moving a parent closer to you, that spares you starting a search from nothing in a city you do not know.

The 378 companies below run 11,915 communities between them. These counts come from our own listings and move as communities open, change hands or close. Choose a name to see all of theirs, the care each one provides, and the cost where it has been published.

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Older notes on organizations we have followed

These entries were written when we first began keeping notes on the industry, and several describe deals that have long since completed: Sunwest's communities went to Emeritus, and Emeritus itself was absorbed by Brookdale in 2014. They are kept because the history of who owned what is genuinely useful when you are trying to understand a community's track record, but read them as a record of their time rather than as current ownership. The table above is the live one.