Hudson Valley Senior AdvisorWhat sources does Hudson Valley Senior Advisor rely on?
Primary ones only: New York statutes and regulations and the Department of Health's own publications for rules, CareScout's 2025 New York tables for prices, GIS messages for Medicaid figures, the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimates for population, the state courts' elder justice directory for county agencies, and the VA's published tables for pensions.
- NYSDOH, Adult Care Facilities/Assisted Living
- NYS Health Profiles: Adult Care Facilities and Nursing Homes
- NYSDOH Health Facility General Information (health.data.ny.gov vn5v-hh5r)
- NYSDOH Adult Care Facility Quarterly Statistical Information Report (h5s5-hcxg)
- N.Y. Social Services Law 461-a (adult care facility inspections)
- NYSDOH, Nursing Home Minimum Staffing and Direct Resident Care Spending
- NYSDOH GIS 26 MA/03 and 26 MA/05 (2026 Medicaid levels)
- NYSDOH GIS 25 MA/14 (2026 regional rates for transfer penalties)
- NYS OTDA 2026 SSI maximum monthly benefit amounts
- CMS Care Compare Provider Information (data.cms.gov 4pq5-n9py)
- CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025
- VA Veterans Pension rates
- U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates
- NYSDOH Long Term Care Ombudsman Program Directory
- NYSDOH, Nursing Homes: Regional Offices
- NY Courts Elder Justice Resources, 9th Judicial District (Dutchess and Orange county agencies)
What do we leave off the site on purpose?
Any figure or claim without a primary source behind it: guessed local prices, details a facility states only in its advertising, testimonials and review scores, and any ranking or rating we would have to make up ourselves.
- Dutchess and Orange have no published assisted living median, so we cite New York's statewide figure and the Medicaid regional rate instead.
- CareScout does not price memory care, so neither do we.
- Assisted living has no official rating in New York; we show inspection records, not stars.
- Operator websites and brochures are never used as a source for facility pages.
When is the directory updated?
Each time the fetch script is run, normally once per quarter, the directory is rebuilt from the state roster and capacity report (now 2026 Q2), NYS Health Profiles records (pulled November 6, 2026) and the CMS provider file (release of October 1, 2026).
Data dates are printed under every table, and a page's sitemap date moves only when its content does.
How do we present inspections and star ratings?
Star ratings appear only for nursing homes CMS certifies, copied exactly and dated; assisted living residences carry no rating of any kind, only their Health Profiles inspection reports, violation totals and enforcement actions.
When a page compares a facility with a benchmark, such as New York's 3.5-hour staffing floor or the two-county violation median, the comparison is plain arithmetic on the published figures and the benchmark is named.
What happens when someone reports an error?
Write to advisors@hudsonvalleysenioradvisor.com naming the page and the problem; our own mistakes are corrected and the site rebuilt, and figures that come from the Department of Health or CMS are referred to the agency that publishes them.
Changes to a rule or benefit amount are made only after we re-read the regulation or notice it rests on. Operators may ask us to fix a display error but not to alter state or federal data.
