Reading a Nevada Home Care License Record, Field by Field

By Nicolas Sartor · 2026-09-16 · Updated 2026-09-18

Every one of Nevada’s 723 home care license records prints the same columns: name, credential number and type, status, expiration date, endorsements, first issue date, address, and phone. Reading a Nevada home care license record field by field takes a few minutes once you know which columns carry weight, which one reads the same on every row, and which questions the record cannot answer at all. This guide walks the export HCQC publishes, the same one behind every profile on this site.

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Every record has the same shape

HCQC’s export prints nineteen columns for each license, whatever the category, and ten of them do the work when you’re vetting an agency. Below is what each one means and the question worth asking when one of them doesn’t look right.

Name: the agency’s name as HCQC printed it on the license, in a single column with no separate “doing business as” field, and none of the 723 names on the current roster carries a DBA. An agency that markets under a name other than the one on its license is worth a question: which legal entity holds the license, and does that name come up in HCQC’s search? Treat a mismatch as a question to settle before signing, not a reason to walk away on its own.

Credential number: the unique identifier the Nevada Health Care Quality and Compliance (HCQC) assigns, printed as a number, then a code (HHA for a home health agency, PCS or PCO for personal care), then a trailing number. HCQC’s search takes only the digits before the letters, per its own instructions. Always ask for it, and never accept an agency that won’t provide one.

Credential type: the license category, printed in capitals as “Agency to Provide Nursing in the Home” for home health and “Agency to Provide Personal Care Services in the Home” for personal care. An agency holding both appears as two rows with two credential numbers; 24 agencies statewide do. See personal care vs. home health for what each category covers.

Status: Active on every one of the 723 records, because HCQC’s licensee search “only shows active licenses”, in its own words. A license that has expired or been suspended or revoked drops out of the export rather than appearing with a different status, and that’s not a filter NevadaList applies. A listing confirms an agency held an active license as of the snapshot date, not that it has never had a lapse or enforcement action in its history.

Expiration date: the end of the current license term, and the one column that tells you how current a printout is. On the 2026-09-18 roster the earliest term runs out on December 4, 2026 and the latest on September 15, 2027, so a copy an agency hands you should show a date still ahead.

Service endorsements: on a home-health record, the 8 clinical services listed beyond the base license, Physical Therapy and Skilled Nursing among them; a ninth endorsement, Intermediary Service Organization certification, shows up on personal care records instead. See what each endorsement covers. No endorsement listed means the state record does not list that service; whether the line is required before an agency delivers it is a question for the agency and HCQC, whatever the marketing says.

First issue date: when the agency was first licensed, the basis for the “Licensed since” year shown on every profile here; the oldest still-active date on the roster is 1983, so this field is worth checking rather than skimming. See how old are Nevada’s home care licenses for the full spread.

Address, county, and phone: the location the license was issued for. For a personal care agency, NAC 449.3972 issues the license to a specific person at a specific location, and an agency that also runs satellite work stations must keep its client, attendant, and operating records at that licensed location. Either way the address is a records location, not a service-area map, and not always the mailing or billing address an agency gives clients. A PO box in place of a street address is worth asking about directly.

What’s not on the record

The export prints a Disciplinary Action column, an Inspection Number, and a Score, and none of the three carries a finding: the disciplinary column reads N on every row as of 2026-09-18, and the score reads 0.00 wherever it is filled in. Read them as columns HCQC prints, not as a clean bill. The inspection reports, complaint findings, and citations HCQC describes on its own site (each substantiated allegation gets a citation and a required plan of correction) are not in the export at all.

That compliance picture stays with the agency’s regulator, so getting it means contacting the Nevada Health Care Quality and Compliance (HCQC) directly, not reading a record harder. Two more columns are easy to misread: Bed Count reads zero on every row, and a Federal Provider # appears on home health rows only, with nothing in the export saying what it certifies. If Medicare is paying, confirm certification through Care Compare, as verifying a home health agency’s license walks through, rather than reading this field as proof. See how NevadaList sources its data for what this site does and doesn’t have access to.

Putting it together

A clean record (Active status, the endorsements you actually need, a street address, and a long-standing issue date) is a reasonable starting signal. Bear in mind that all 723 agencies on Nevada’s current roster show Active, so status alone separates nobody from anybody; the endorsements and the issue date carry the real weight. None of it replaces asking for references or interviewing the agency directly. For the step-by-step check, see verifying a home health agency’s license or verifying a personal care agency’s license, then questions to ask before signing for the interview.

Common questions

Sources

• Nevada Health Care Quality and Compliance (HCQC) licensing export (as of 2026-09-18)
• Nevada Administrative Code Chapter 449