Dear Diane,

I live in central CA and my mom and I are interested in starting a
RCFE. She is an RN and has worked in nursing homes and currently in
an alzheimers living center facility. We have both attained our
Administrators' Licenses. But going through the 40 hour required
course and talking to different people has raised several questions
for us. We are wondering if a 6 bed facility can really make it
financially. We are both willing to be the main staff there and
would look to hire a possible live in staff member as soon as
feasible.

1) In your opinion what are the optimal states to do this in?

2)What is the best size (number of clients)? The staffing issue was
confusing to us, it sounded like 2 staff all the time from 1-99
clients.

3) Do you have any idea of how long it is taking a new facility to
be filled and are most of them taking private pay only or a mixture
of state/private, clients??

4) Are there resources either online or otherwise that have some of
this data - I have been a subscriber to your service for almost 6
months, and admittedly have not used it much yet. It seems like a
very valuable resource for those actually in the business. What I'm
looking for is some preliminary data to make an informed decision on
what size and where to open one.

Thank you for any info you can provide...............John