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The right senior care facility
starts with independent information.

Whether you're researching on behalf of a parent or spouse — or planning ahead for yourself — you deserve the complete picture. Senior care advisors paid on referral can only show you facilities inside their network, and many of the best options never pay referral fees and never come up. ClearPath gives you every qualifying facility in your area, ranked against your priorities, drawn from federal government records — with no financial relationship to anyone.

400K+
people navigate senior
care decisions each year
$8,000
typical referral fee paid
per placement — shaping
who gets recommended
$34,489
in VA benefits the average
eligible veteran never claims
100%
of qualifying facilities
shown — including those
that never pay referral fees
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Something most families never learn: Many excellent non-profit and independent facilities choose not to pay referral fees — so they never appear in referral-based recommendations, regardless of quality. ClearPath pulls from federal records, not contracted networks. Every qualifying facility in your area appears in your results.

Why ClearPath Exists

The question every family deserves to ask.

Senior care placement services can offer real value — experienced advisors who visit facilities, know the staff, and accompany families on tours. That firsthand knowledge matters. But when a recommendation is shaped by a referral fee, it's worth asking: how do I know this is what's best for my loved one, and not what's most profitable for the person suggesting it?

Not all quality facilities pay referral fees. Many exceptional smaller facilities — non-profit communities, religious-affiliated homes, family-run residences — operate entirely outside referral networks, either on principle or because they fill their beds through reputation alone. A referral-based service will never mention them. The facility that's the perfect fit for your loved one might be ten minutes away and completely invisible to the referral industry. ClearPath is built on federal government data, not contracted relationships. Every facility that meets our quality standards appears — fee-paying or not.

Referral-Based Placement Services

  • Knowledgeable advisors with real local experience
  • Tour accompaniment and personal guidance
  • Free to families — paid by facilities ($3K–$8K per placement)
  • Recommendations limited to contracted facility network
  • Non-paying facilities never appear, regardless of quality

✅ ClearPath Senior Guide

  • Federal government quality data on every qualifying facility
  • Staffing, inspection records, deficiency history in plain English
  • Every area facility shown — including those that never pay fees
  • VA benefit eligibility assessment built into every report
  • Paid by you — zero financial relationship with any facility

Our recommendation: use both. A placement advisor's local knowledge and ClearPath's independent data give you and your family the most complete picture — and the most options.

The Alternative

What it takes to research this yourself.

The government data that powers ClearPath is publicly available — but locating it, interpreting it, and comparing it across multiple facilities is a research project most families don't realize they're signing up for. Here's what a thorough independent search actually involves.

1
Find the right government tool
CMS Care Compare on medicare.gov isn't easy to discover, and its interface is built for regulators, not families.
~20 min
2
Decode the star rating system
A 5-star overall rating can hide a 2-star health inspection. Understanding how the four component ratings interact takes research most people don't know is necessary.
~30 min
3
Read government inspection reports
Each inspection report is a 20–40 page PDF written in federal regulatory language. You'll need one for every facility you're evaluating.
~45 min per facility
4
Look up what each deficiency actually means
Inspection citations use F-tag codes (F-880, F-689, etc.). Each one requires a separate lookup to understand whether it's a paperwork issue or a resident safety concern.
~30 min per facility
5
Download and parse staffing data
Staffing ratios are in raw CSV files on data.cms.gov — not the Care Compare website. Downloading, opening, and interpreting them requires some comfort with spreadsheets.
~45 min
6
Research civil monetary penalties
Fines issued by CMS against facilities are in a separate government database — they do not appear on the main Care Compare listing and require their own search.
~20 min per facility
7
Research who actually owns and operates the facility
The facility name and the company that owns it are often different entities. For-profit vs. non-profit status, private equity ownership, and management company track records each require separate research.
~25 min per facility
8
Determine VA Aid & Attendance eligibility
VA.gov has the information, but applying wartime service rules, income limits, asset thresholds, and surviving spouse rates to your specific situation takes hours and still may require a phone call.
2–3 hours
9
Find photos, website, and social media for each facility
Care Compare has no photos or facility links. Finding each facility's website, virtual tour, and social media presence requires separate Google searches for each one.
~15 min per facility
10
Check occupancy and bed availability
CMS publishes average daily census and certified bed counts — but calculating occupancy rate, identifying facilities running at capacity, and flagging likely waitlist situations requires downloading and parsing separate data files.
~20 min per facility
11
Figure out what questions to ask on tours
Generic tour question lists are easy to find. Knowing which questions matter for the specific facility you're visiting — based on its actual inspection record — requires connecting data you've now spent days collecting.
~45 min
12
Build a side-by-side comparison
No government tool compares multiple facilities against your specific priorities — distance, budget, staffing, inspection record, VA eligibility — in one place. That part is on you.
2+ hours
Total research time for 7 facilities
20–25 hrs
If you know where to look — and what you're looking at when you find it.
Value of your time at $15/hr
$375+
Before you've written a single question or booked a single tour.
A geriatric care manager charges
$150–$250
Per hour for the same data-driven analysis ClearPath starts at $47.

ClearPath does all twelve of these steps for every qualifying facility in your area — and delivers the results in plain English, ranked against your specific priorities, within minutes.

Get My Report — Starting at $47 →

No referral fees, ever  ·  Delivered within minutes  ·  Conflict-free analysis

What You Receive

Everything in your ClearPath report.

For families researching on behalf of a loved one — or for seniors planning ahead for themselves. Every report is personalized, quality-screened, and delivered within minutes of checkout.

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Federal Quality Screening

Every facility is independently screened against CMS government standards before you see a single result. Only those that pass appear.

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Staffing Intelligence

Actual nurse-to-resident ratios, staff turnover rates, and weekend coverage — compared to your state's average so you can see what "good" actually looks like.

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Inspection Deep-Dive

What government inspectors actually found, in plain English — the specific issues behind the star ratings, not just the ratings themselves.

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VA Benefit Assessment

If you or your loved one is a veteran or surviving spouse, your report identifies VA Aid & Attendance eligibility — up to $2,874/month that most eligible people never claim.

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Tour Preparation

Specific questions tailored to each facility's actual record — so you go into every tour knowing exactly what to ask and what to look for.

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No Hidden Options

Quality non-profits and independent facilities that never pay referral fees never appear in placement service recommendations. They appear in yours.

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Visual Research Links

Direct links to each facility's website, photos, videos, and social media — so you can see the environment before you ever walk through the door.

Not sure what to expect? See exactly what your report looks like — including the difficult findings.

📄 View a Sample Report

Opens a fully detailed sample — real report format, fictional facility, mixed ratings

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Let's find the right care —
for you or someone you love.

Six quick questions and we'll screen every qualifying facility in your area, rank them against your priorities, and deliver your personalized report within minutes. Whether you're researching for yourself or a family member, the process is the same.

  • Takes about 3 minutes
  • No commitment until checkout
  • 100% independent — no referral fees, ever

Where are you searching?

We search every qualifying facility within your chosen radius and screen each one before showing you any results.

What type of care is needed?

This determines which quality measures we weight most heavily when ranking your results.

What matters most to your family?

Every facility already passed our quality screen. These priorities determine how they're ranked for you.

How important is having a registered nurse on-site around the clock?

RN coverage on nights and weekends is one of the strongest predictors of care quality.

How much does the physical environment and living quality matter?

Private rooms, dining quality, outdoor spaces — the "home" feeling beyond clinical quality.

Does non-profit ownership matter to your family?

Non-profit facilities operate on a mission-driven model rather than for shareholder profit.

What's your monthly budget?

Facilities don't publicly report their rates, so ClearPath can't provide exact pricing. We use your budget alongside published regional cost ranges (Genworth 2026) to highlight which care types are likely in range, flag Medicaid-certified facilities as a cost-accessible option, and help you prioritize which facilities to contact first for a rate quote.

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Are you — or the person you're researching for — a veteran or surviving spouse?

This may unlock VA Aid & Attendance — up to $34,489/year tax-free. Assessed in every report at no extra charge.

Let's check VA Aid & Attendance eligibility

30 seconds — and it could identify thousands in annual benefits your family is entitled to.

💰 If eligible, VA Aid & Attendance pays $1,558 – $2,874 per month, tax-free — applied directly to care costs. Fewer than 1 in 4 eligible veterans and surviving spouses ever claim it.

VA Aid & Attendance information provided by ClearPath is for general informational purposes only. ClearPath makes no guarantees regarding actual benefit eligibility, benefit amounts, or application outcomes. A formal eligibility determination requires review of military service records, medical documentation, and financial information by a VA-accredited claims agent.

Where should we send your report?

Your personalized report will be delivered to your inbox, typically within minutes of completing checkout.

Payment Information

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Our commitment to you

ClearPath will never accept a referral fee, finder's fee, or commission from any senior care facility — now or in the future. All sales are final. Because your report is generated immediately using live federal data, we are unable to offer refunds. Questions about your report? Contact us at contact@clearpathseniorguide.com.