Florida Assisted Living Facility (ALF) Inspections Scraper

Florida licenses about 3,000 assisted living facilities, and the state publishes a lot about each one: the license, bed counts, specialty licenses, inspection visits, every cited deficiency and its class, fines and sanctions. The problem is that it's spread across two state websites, one facility at a time. This Actor pulls it into one clean dataset, with one row per facility and the inspection history nested inside.

Everything comes from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). Each record links back to the official state pages it came from.

What you get

Field group	Examples
Identity	AHCA file number, license number, facility name, license status, license dates, for-profit / not-for-profit
Location	street, city, ZIP, county, latitude/longitude, facility phone, website
Capacity	licensed capacity, ECC beds, OSS (Optional State Supplement) beds, private-pay beds, private and semi-private rooms
Specialty licenses	Extended Congregate Care (ECC), Limited Nursing Services (LNS), Limited Mental Health (LMH), as true/false flags and a list
Services	memory care, special programs, nurse availability, Medicaid services, payment forms accepted, languages, emergency power source
Ownership	licensee (business entities only), management company
Inspections	every survey visit in your window: date, type (standard, complaint, follow-up and so on), track ID, deficiencies cited
Deficiencies	survey date, tag (e.g. A0081), class (I to IV or unclassified), short requirement title, correction date
Enforcement	AHCA's deficiency counts by class, complaint count, sanction count, total fines, active emergency action, and legal sanctions with case number, type, dates, fine and status
Source	profile URL, inspections URL, attribution, scrape timestamp

All dates are ISO (YYYY-MM-DD).

Who it's for

• Senior living referral agencies and placement advisors who need to check a facility's record before recommending it
• Elder law attorneys and care managers doing due diligence
• Operators, investors and brokers sizing up competitors or acquisition targets by county
• Vendors (pharmacy, staffing, therapy, software) building target lists of ECC, LNS or memory care facilities
• Journalists and researchers tracking enforcement across the state

Input

{
  "counties": ["Hillsborough", "Pinellas"],
  "memoryCareOnly": false,
  "specialtyLicenses": ["ECC"],
  "includeInspections": true,
  "inspectionYears": 5,
  "maxFacilities": 0,
  "requestDelaySecs": 1.5
}

• counties: county names as AHCA writes them (Miami-Dade, St. Johns, Palm Beach). Leave empty for the whole state.
• memoryCareOnly: only facilities that list Memory Care as a special program.
• specialtyLicenses: any of ECC, LNS, LMH. A facility is kept if it holds at least one.
• includeInspections: turn off for a fast roster-only run (no deficiency charges).
• inspectionYears: how far back to go. 5 matches the window AHCA uses for its own counts. 0 returns everything back to 2008.
• maxFacilities: handy for a quick trial. 0 means no limit.
• requestDelaySecs: a polite pause between requests to the state sites (minimum 1 second).

Output

One item per facility (shortened):

{
  "file_number": "11969128",
  "license_number": "13208",
  "facility_name": "ANGEL VISION BONIFAY LLC",
  "license_status": "LICENSED",
  "license_expiration_date": "2027-10-20",
  "street": "108 WAGNER ROAD",
  "city": "BONIFAY",
  "zip": "32425",
  "county": "Holmes",
  "licensed_capacity": 18,
  "oss_beds": 16,
  "specialty_licenses": ["Limited Mental Health"],
  "has_ecc_license": false,
  "has_lns_license": false,
  "has_lmh_license": true,
  "memory_care_offered": false,
  "nurse_availability": ["Direct 24hr"],
  "ahca_class2_deficiencies": 5,
  "inspection_count": 17,
  "most_recent_inspection_date": "2026-09-10",
  "deficiency_count": 29,
  "deficiencies": [
    {
      "survey_date": "2026-02-18",
      "inspection_type": "Complaint",
      "track_id": "KIGJ",
      "deficiency_tag": "A0081",
      "deficiency_class": "3",
      "requirement": "TRAINING - STAFF IN-SERVICE",
      "correction_date": "2026-09-10"
    }
  ],
  "profile_url": "https://quality.healthfinder.fl.gov/Facility-Provider/Profile/?LID=393776",
  "inspections_url": "https://apps.ahca.myflorida.com/dm_web/facility_inspection_details.aspx?client_code=11&file_number=11969128&provider_type=Assisted%20Living%20Facility",
  "source_attribution": "Source: Florida Agency for Health Care Administration ..."
}

The Facilities table view in the Console shows the key columns. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel. In CSV, the nested lists are flattened into columns.

Pricing

Pay per result:

Event	Price
Facility	$0.01
Deficiency (inside your inspection window)	$0.0025

Some examples:

• One county with 50 facilities and about 400 deficiencies costs about $1.50.
• The whole state with a 5-year window (about 3,000 facilities and 25,000 deficiencies) costs about $93.
• The whole state as a roster only, with inspections turned off, costs about $30.

You can set a maximum charge per run in Apify, and the Actor stops cleanly when it reaches that cap.

Data sources and compliance

• FloridaHealthFinder facility list and profiles (AHCA)
• AHCA facility inspection details (AHCA)

This is public information published by the State of Florida. The Actor reads public pages only, with no login, at a slow fixed pace (one request at a time, with a pause between requests by default). It stores facts only. It keeps the deficiency tag, class and the state's short requirement title, but not the long statute or rule text. It doesn't store personal names: administrators, officers and individual owners are left out, and the licensee is kept only when it's a business entity. This dataset is not endorsed by AHCA or the State of Florida. Please check anything important against the linked state record.

Limits

• A full-state run with inspections makes about 6,000 to 9,000 polite requests and takes roughly 3 to 4 hours. Use county filters for quick pulls.
• AHCA's own deficiency counts (the ahca_* fields) cover AHCA's reporting window. deficiency_count covers the window you choose, so the two can differ.
• Survey header rows such as "INITIAL COMMENTS" are not counted as deficiencies.
• If a state site is down, the facility is still returned with inspections_complete: false so you can rerun just those.

Updates and support

AHCA updates these records continuously. Run the Actor on a schedule (weekly or monthly) to keep your copy fresh. Found a field that looks wrong, or need another state? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.