Census Watch

Early warning on your assisted living referral sources

For hospice and home health sales teams

Your CRM tracks what your team did. Census Watch tracks what changed at them.

One hospice admission from assisted living is worth about $9,600 in Medicare revenue in Utah. When a community you depend on changes leaders or loses its nurse, the referral relationship can change with it. Census Watch tells you in your next Monday alert, with the move to make.

Read Issue 01 · 63 Salt Lake County licenses, every figure sourced

24%Of Medicare hospice claims are for care in assisted livingVerified2022–23 claims · RIHC Chartbook 2024
2.5×Median hospice stay: 55 days in assisted living vs 22 in nursing facilitiesVerifiedMedPAC Data Book 2024 · 2022 data
13.3%Medicare margin for hospices with the most facility patients, vs 0.2% for the restVerifiedMedPAC March 2026 · 2023 data
16,377Utah Medicare hospice patients in fiscal year 2024VerifiedCMS hospice utilization data

How it works

Built around the communities that already send you patients. Nothing to install.

  1. 1

    Send us your top 20

    The assisted living communities your team depends on most. That list becomes your watch list.

  2. 2

    We check them every week

    State licensing records, job postings and the communities' own websites, checked against each other before anything is sent.

  3. 3

    Your Monday alert

    What changed, why it matters and your next move, with a confidence label on every item.

What a Monday alert looks like

Two real items from October 2026. Every alert says how sure we are, and we cut anything we can't confirm.

New licenseVerified

Beehive Homes of West Jordan adds two new licenses

Licenses #2 (10 beds) and #3 (13 beds) were issued October 8–9, 2025, at 8912 South 2700 West, the same street as a 32-bed memory care license from February 2025.

Next moveIntroduce your team to the West Jordan campus before referral habits set.

Source: Utah DHHS licensing file
Leadership hiringUnconfirmed signal

Cedarwood at Sandy: Assistant Executive Director opening

Listed for a 95-bed Type II community with 15 memory care beds. First posted October 2024, re-posted October 2026.

Next moveCall the front desk and ask who leads the community today.

Source: job board listing, captured Oct 21, 2026

Not another CRM

Census Watch works alongside the tools you already use. It covers what they can't see.

Your CRMCensus Watch
TracksYour team's visits, calls and referralsChanges at the communities themselves
Data comes fromWhat your team entersState licensing records, job postings, community websites
A new administrator shows upWhen a rep happens to hear about itIn your next Monday alert
Delivered asSomething you log intoA Monday email, plus an export for your CRM

What is one referral source worth to you?

Set it to one of your real assisted living partners. Then picture losing it for six months because a new administrator brought in their own hospice.

Census Watch Weekly: $400 a month, $4,800 a year

$115,137Revenue from this community per year
$9,595Revenue per admission
$57,569At risk if a leadership change costs you six months of referrals
0.5Admissions a year that pay for the subscription

Utah's Medicare hospice payments averaged $174.45 per day of care in fiscal year 2024 ($245.7 million over 1.41 million days, all levels of care). The 55-day default is the 2022 median hospice stay for assisted living residents, per MedPAC; the average was 165 days. Using the median and 2024 payment levels keeps these figures conservative. Revenue, not profit.

Pricing

Flat fees only. Census Watch never accepts payment tied to referrals, admissions or census.

Free

The monthly brief

$0
  • New licenses, leadership hiring and expansions across Salt Lake County, with Utah County next
  • The full searchable register of licensed communities
  • Every figure sourced and labeled
Get the free monthly brief

Questions

Where does the data come from?

State licensing records from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, public job postings, and the communities' own websites. Dollar figures use Medicare's published hospice rates. Every item names its source.

How do you keep it accurate?

Every figure passes three checks before it is sent: an automated check against the raw source, an independent re-derivation, and a human sign-off. Each item carries a confidence label, and anything we can't confirm is cut. Errors are corrected within 24 hours and logged.

Isn't Medicare's data two years old?

Medicare's claims data runs about 18 months behind for everyone, including the big analytics firms. We use it for one thing: how each competitor's business is built, like what share of its patients are in assisted living. Everything else comes from sources checked every week (leadership hiring, new licenses) or every quarter (ownership changes, family survey results). Every number shows its date and how fresh it is, so you always know which is which.

Our liaisons already know their buildings. Why do we need this?

They know the buildings they visit. Census Watch covers the ones they don't, shows who is winning each building, and flags changes at your accounts when they happen, not when your liaison next stops by.

Is this a referral service?

No. Census Watch is a flat-fee information service. We never accept payment tied to referrals, admissions or census, and we never steer patients.

Can my team use it?

Yes. A subscription covers your organization's team in one territory. It is licensed for internal use and may not be redistributed outside your organization.

Which areas do you cover?

All licensed assisted living communities in Utah. The free monthly brief starts with Salt Lake County, with Utah County next.

See what changed at your partners this week.