Methodology

Last reviewed September 18, 2026

This page explains exactly where every listing's data comes from, what "licensed" and "verified" mean on this site, and where the limits are. If you're trying to decide how much to trust a listing, this is the page to read.

The sources

Home Care

Every home care listing starts from the Nevada Health Care Quality and Compliance (HCQC), the regulator that licenses these businesses to operate in Nevada, obtained through the licensee list export ("Generate Excel") from the state's own licensee search portal, one export per credential type (HHA, PCS, PCO). That export is the single source of truth for every business's license number, license status, license category, and endorsed services. None of those fields are typed in by a business or inferred from a website; they're read directly from the state's record, keyed by license number plus credential code (the sourceRefs on every record), and re-pulled quarterly. Reuse: public licensing record published by the state; republished with the license number and export date on every page.

What the source does not tell you: the export lists who holds a license and what it endorses; its inspection, score, and disciplinary columns carry no finding on any row, and it carries no complaint history, staffing levels, prices, or Medicare certification, and a business can be licensed in one city and serve another.

How a listing gets built

1. Ingest. The licensing board's export is pulled and matched against Nevada's cities and counties. Rows that don't clear basic data-quality checks are set aside for review, not guessed into a listing.
2. Enrichment. If a business has its own website, it's looked up and its homepage and about page are read for real detail (services offered, specialties, hours, anything the agency says about itself). A business with no findable, independently verifiable website stays on the license facts alone.
3. Write-up. The descriptive text on each listing is drafted from those two sources only: the state's license facts and whatever real text was found on the agency's own site. Each draft is checked automatically for claims that appear in neither source; I spot-check listings rather than read every one, and correct any listing a reader reports. Those checks catch most errors, not all of them; when one gets through, the fix goes back to the source, and the contact form is the way to report it. When a business's own site doesn't say much, the listing says less, and that's treated as correct, not as a gap to paper over.
4. Publish and refresh. Listings are re-verified against a fresh export on a quarterly cadence, and every listing shows the date it was last checked.

How the text on this site is made

Listing descriptions are drafted with AI from the state's licence record and the agency's own website, then checked by automated rules before publication; I spot-check them and correct any listing a reader reports. Articles are drafted with AI from the licence roster and the sources listed at the end of each piece, and I read and edit every article before it goes live. A listing's draft is built only from the license record and the agency's own site text, both named on the page; an article's draft may not cite anything beyond its listed sources. The automated rules catch marketing language, numbers that appear in no source, missing citations, and a figure that disagrees with another page on this site. Article illustrations are AI-generated; charts are drawn directly from the roster data.

What "verified" means, precisely

It means the license number, status, category, and endorsed services shown on a listing match Nevada's own licensing export as of the "last checked" date on that page. It does not mean a person has visited the business, inspected its facilities, or personally confirmed the quality of its work: NevadaList isn't in a position to do that, and doesn't claim to.

What this site does not do

• No reviews or ratings. NevadaList never shows star ratings or testimonials. They're easy to fake and impossible for a directory like this one to verify, so rather than display something unreliable, it isn't shown at all.
• No medical advice. Nothing on this site is medical or care advice. License status describes what a business is authorized to do, not whether it's the right choice for your situation.
• No guaranteed real-time status. License status can change between refreshes. For a decision that matters, confirm current status directly with the licensing authority named on the listing, for home care the Nevada Health Care Quality and Compliance (HCQC).

Something look wrong?

If a listing is inaccurate, out of date, or you represent a business and want something corrected, get in touch. Corrections get checked against the state's own record and fixed.