Operations
What a 6-bed pediatric CLHF needs in an EMR before opening day
Before opening a 6-bed pediatric CLHF: Resident Board, eMAR with reasons, guardian decision-maker, devices, surveyor path.
Blog
Residential care billing & compliance, explained
Practical guidance on documentation, billing, staffing rules, and survey readiness across SNF, assisted living, RCFE, board & care, and CLHF.
Compliance
When You Have to Evacuate: Emergency and Disaster Planning Across California's Residential Care Facilities
A disaster plan is only as good as the records you can carry out the door. SNFs and CLHFs answer to CDPH and CMS; assisted living, RCFEs, and board & care answer to Community Care Licensing and a tougher post-wildfire statute. Here's what each one has to prove — and the live resident record that ties them together.
Compliance
Survey-Ready, Whatever Your License Type: Compliance Across California's Residential Care Facilities
SNFs and CLHFs answer to CDPH; assisted living, RCFEs, and board & care homes answer to Community Care Licensing. The agencies, forms, and timelines differ — but the work that keeps you survey-ready is the same. Here's the map.
Billing
How HCBA Waiver Billing Actually Works for CLHFs: TARs, U3 Nursing Notes, and Getting Paid
For most California Congregate Living Health Facilities, revenue runs through the Medi-Cal HCBA Waiver — and it lives or dies on documentation. Here's how TARs, U3 per-diem billing, and nursing notes fit together, and where CLHFs lose money.