New York Nursing Home Bed Availability (NYSDOH) Scraper

Pulls nursing home bed availability for every nursing home in New York State from the NYS Department of Health weekly bed census into clean JSON records: how many beds each facility is licensed for and how many are free right now, by bed type (residential, ventilator, behavioral intervention, TBI, neurodegenerative, pediatric, dialysis, adult day health care). Filter by county, region, facility name, bed type and minimum beds free.

This is capacity data, not quality data. It answers "which nursing homes in Erie County have a ventilator bed open this week", not "who has four stars". Two modes, one schema:

• Current - each facility's most recent filing. About 592 facilities, refreshed weekly.
• History - every weekly filing back to 8 April 2009. About 441,000 facility weeks, for occupancy trends and seasonality.

Who uses this data

• Senior placement services, geriatric care managers and elder-law firms shortlisting facilities that can actually take a client this week, by county and by bed type.
• Hospital and SNF discharge planners working a live discharge: filter to ventilator, behavioral intervention or TBI beds with at least N free, in one region.
• Managed long-term care plans and ACOs monitoring network capacity across their footprint.
• Nursing home operators, brokers, lenders and developers using the history mode to read occupancy trends by county before siting, buying or repositioning a facility.
• Researchers and journalists studying bed supply, specialty capacity, or closures over fifteen years of weekly filings.

What you get

One dataset item per facility per census date, newest first. Both modes emit the same fields, so current and history pipe into one table. A real item, from {"bedType": "ventilator", "minBedsAvailable": 1}, with unreported bed types trimmed for length:

{
  "mode": "current",
  "facilityId": "1233",
  "facilityName": "Independence Care Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation",
  "certificationNumber": "7000385N",
  "streetAddress": "666 Kappock Street",
  "city": "Bronx",
  "state": "NY",
  "zip": "10463",
  "county": "Bronx",
  "region": "Metropolitan Area Regional Office - New York City",
  "phone": "718-549-1203",
  "latitude": 40.88051,
  "longitude": -73.91877,
  "censusDate": "2026-08-12",
  "censusWeeksAgo": 1,
  "facilityStatus": null,
  "specialCircumstances": null,
  "residentialBedsAvailable": 29,
  "residentialBedCapacity": 200,
  "maxBedsAvailable": 29,
  "reportedBedTypes": ["residential", "ventilator"],
  "beds": {
    "residential": { "capacity": 200, "available": 29 },
    "ventilator": { "capacity": 10, "available": 6 },
    "pediatric": { "capacity": null, "available": null }
  },
  "sourceDataset": "izta-vnpq",
  "sourceDatasetTitle": "Nursing Home Weekly Bed Census: Last Submission",
  "source": "https://health.data.ny.gov/resource/izta-vnpq.json",
  "datasetPage": "https://health.data.ny.gov/d/izta-vnpq",
  "attribution": "New York State Department of Health",
  "sourcePublishedAt": "2026-08-19T17:29:57.000Z",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-08-23T11:36:02.150Z"
}

beds always carries all eleven categories, so the CSV export has stable columns. null means the facility filed nothing for that category; 0 means it filed a zero. censusWeeksAgo is how stale the filing is, and is populated in current mode only. facilityStatus (OPEN/CLOSED) and specialCircumstances (the facility's own free-text note, e.g. 11 Beds closed for construction) come from the history dataset and are null in current.

There is deliberately no total across bed types. Specialty beds sit inside the certified residential bed count: on the 2026-08-12 census, 471 of 473 facilities had their specialty categories summing to no more than the residential total, and the two exceptions are facilities double-reporting the same beds under two specialty labels. Adding categories would therefore inflate a facility's capacity. maxBedsAvailable is the largest single category free, and residentialBedsAvailable is the number a placement desk usually means.

Dates are ISO 8601. Census dates are plain calendar dates, not an invented midnight in some timezone. Records are deduplicated on facility plus census date.

Input

Everything is optional. Run it with no input and you get the 100 most recently filed facility censuses.

Field	Type	Default	Notes
mode	enum	current	current (latest filing per facility) or history (weekly since 2009).
facilityName	string	-	Case-insensitive substring on the facility name, e.g. elderwood.
county	string	-	Case-insensitive substring on the county. NYC boroughs use county names: New York, Kings, Queens, Bronx, Richmond.
region	string	-	Case-insensitive substring on the NYSDOH area office, e.g. Rochester, Long Island.
bedType	enum	any	One of residential, ventilator, behavioralIntervention, traumaticBrainInjury, neurodegenerative, pediatric, pediatricVentilator, scatterVentilator, adultDayHealthCare, dialysisStation, dialysisDen.
minBedsAvailable	integer	0	Minimum beds free. Applies to bedType when one is chosen, otherwise to the facility's largest single free bed type.
censusDateFrom	ISO date	-	Censuses filed on or after this date. Mainly for history.
censusDateTo	ISO date	-	Censuses filed on or before this date.
maxResults	integer	100	1 to 50000. This is your cost cap: you pay per delivered record.
includeRaw	boolean	false	Attach a raw array with the source rows under their NYSDOH column names.

The seven NYSDOH regions are Capital District, Central New York, Metropolitan Area - Long Island, Metropolitan Area - New Rochelle, Metropolitan Area - New York City, Western - Buffalo, and Western - Rochester.

Example inputs

Nursing homes with open beds in one county this week (placement, discharge planning):

{
  "county": "Erie",
  "minBedsAvailable": 5,
  "maxResults": 200
}

Ventilator beds available anywhere in New York City (specialty discharge):

{
  "region": "New York City",
  "bedType": "ventilator",
  "minBedsAvailable": 1,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Fifteen years of weekly occupancy for one facility (operator or lender trend analysis):

{
  "mode": "history",
  "facilityName": "Independence Care Center",
  "censusDateFrom": "2011-01-01",
  "maxResults": 1000
}

Pricing

$0.004 per record; you pay only for records delivered. One charge per dataset item, nothing else. Set maxResults and you have set your bill: 100 records is $0.40. Filters are applied before delivery, so a narrow search costs less than a broad one, and a search that matches nothing is free.

Data source, refresh and licence

Records come from two Socrata (SODA) datasets published by the New York State Department of Health on health.data.ny.gov:

• Current: Nursing Home Weekly Bed Census: Last Submission (izta-vnpq)
• History: Nursing Home Weekly Bed Census: Beginning 2009 (uhyy-xp9s)

Refresh: NYSDOH requires facilities to file weekly, and publishes both datasets on a monthly posting frequency (its own metadata: Data Frequency weekly, Posting Frequency monthly). Each run reports the dataset's sourcePublishedAt so you can see exactly how fresh the copy you were served is. Run the Actor on a schedule and you track the state's own refresh; there is no faster public feed.

Licence: Both datasets carry the license "Public Domain" and the attribution "New York State Department of Health" in their own Socrata metadata (read 2026-08-23).

The Department's Data Use Policy Statement (revised February 2013) grants permission to reproduce its published materials "so long as the Department of Health is noted as the source, and the data [sic] the web page was accessed, along with the date of publication of the material cited, is noted." Every record therefore carries attribution, source, fetchedAt (the date accessed) and sourcePublishedAt (the dataset's own publication timestamp), so a downstream citation has everything it needs.

The same policy requires this statement, reproduced verbatim:

"The New York State Department of Health makes no representation, warranty or guarantee relating to the data or analyses derived from these data."

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the New York State Department of Health. Bed and occupancy figures are self-reported by facilities and are not audited by NYSDOH, which the Department states in the datasets' own limitations note.

The Actor reads the public SODA endpoints with a descriptive User-Agent (jserle-apify-actor/ny-nursing-home-bed-census), sends requests one at a time with the 1-second Crawl-delay from the host's robots.txt (which allows /resource/*), and caches nothing between runs. A default run makes three requests.

Limitations

• Self-reported and unaudited. NYSDOH's own disclaimer: "Information is self-reported and is not audited by the NYSDOH." Treat a bed count as the facility's claim, not a verified vacancy.
• Weekly, not real time. The current dataset is each facility's last filing, which is not always last week. censusWeeksAgo tells you how stale each row is; some facilities are several weeks behind.
• Not every facility files every week. The 2026-08-12 census covers 473 facilities out of the 592 in the current snapshot. Absence from a week is a missing filing, not a closure.
• Three categories have no capacity/available split. NYSDOH publishes a single figure for pediatric ventilator beds, dialysis station beds and dialysis station dens. The state's own current dataset reports that one figure as both capacity and available (verified: zero rows where they differ), and this Actor does the same in both modes so the two agree.
• Capacity data only. No inspection results, staffing, deficiencies, or star ratings. For those, see CMS Care Compare or the related CMS Actors below.
• New York State only, and nursing homes only. Assisted living, adult care facilities and home care are separate NYSDOH datasets.
• facilityStatus is the facility's current status, as published on the history rows, not its status on the census date. It is null in current mode because that dataset does not carry it.
• A filter that matches nothing returns zero records and succeeds. That is a valid, free answer. A run only fails when the source itself is broken, and then it exits non-zero having pushed nothing and charged nothing. It fails if a dataset stops publishing any column the normalizer reads, reports an implausibly small row count, returns no rows at all to an unfiltered query, publishes a bed-type code this Actor does not map (which would leave those beds missing from a record you paid for), or stops carrying the publication date every record cites.

FAQ

How do I find nursing homes with available beds near me in New York?

Set county (NYC boroughs use their county names: New York, Kings, Queens, Bronx, Richmond) and minBedsAvailable. Every record carries the street address, phone, latitude and longitude, so you can sort by distance downstream.

Does it show ventilator, TBI or behavioral beds specifically?

Yes. Set bedType to one of the eleven NYSDOH categories and minBedsAvailable applies to that category alone. The beds object on every record carries capacity and available for all eleven.

How often is the New York nursing home bed census updated?

Facilities file weekly; NYSDOH posts the datasets monthly. sourcePublishedAt on every record tells you the publication timestamp of the copy you received, and censusWeeksAgo tells you how old each facility's filing is.

Can I get nursing home occupancy history in New York?

Yes. mode: "history" returns every weekly filing since 8 April 2009, about 441,000 facility weeks, filterable by facility, county, region and date range.

Is the bed count verified?

No. NYSDOH states the figures are self-reported and not audited. Treat a vacancy as the facility's claim and call to confirm.

Does it cover assisted living or adult care facilities?

No. Nursing homes only. Assisted living, adult care facilities and home care are separate NYSDOH datasets.

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