How Home Care Businesses
Verify Home Health Aide Licenses
and Abuse Registries
All Home Care Businesses are required to complete background checks for caregivers, home health aides, certified nursing assistants, certified nurses, practical nurses, and registered nurses. This should include verification of licensing status and/or certificates. For your convenience, the following is a list of the Home Health Aide Registries in each of the 50 states, alphabetically. By clicking on the “Online NAR” link listed under each respective state you will be taken to the state’s registry to verify the license status of NAs. In addition, Abuse Registries are listed for the states that currently have them. Please note: All links are valid at the time of publishing. If you should find a link that’s outdated, please let us know and we’ll update it accordingly.
ALABAMA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Alabama.
AL Nursing Registry
ALASKA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Alaska.
AK Nurse Aide Registry
ARIZONA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Arizona.
AZ Nurse Aide Registry
ARKANSAS
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Arkansas.
AR Nurse Aide Registry
CALIFORNIA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in California.
CA Nurse Aide Registry
COLORADO
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Colorado.
CO Nurse Aide Registry
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in District of Columbia.
DC Nurse Aide Registry
DELAWARE
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Delaware.
DE CNA Registry
Online Registry Abuse Registry
FLORIDA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Florida.
FL Nurse Aide Registry
GEORGIA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Georgia.
GA Nurse Aide Registry
HAWAII
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Hawaii.
HI Nurse Aide Registry
American Red Cross Online NAR Abuse Registry– Has Link To The Latest List (xls format)
IDAHO
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Idaho.
ID Nurse Aide Registry ID
ILLINOIS
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Illinois.
IL Nurse Aide Registry
INDIANA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Indiana.
IN Nurse Aide Registry
IOWA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Iowa.
IA Direct Care Worker Registry
Online NAR – In left navigation panel, click on “DCW Search” which brings you to NAR Search. Has an abuse registry but it is not public record
KANSAS
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Kansas.
KS Nurse Aide Registry
KENTUCKY
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Kentucky.
KY Nurse Aide Registry
MASSACHUSETTS
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Massachusetts.
MA Nurse Aide Registry MA
MICHIGAN
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Michigan.
MI Nurse Aide Registry
MINNESOTA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Minnesota.
MN Nursing Assistant Registry
MISSISSIPPI
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Mississippi.
MS Nurse Aide Registry
MISSOURI
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Missouri.
MO Nurse Aide Registry
MONTANA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Montana.
MT Nurse Aide Registry
NEBRASKA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Nebraska.
NE Nurse Aide Registry
NEVADA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Nevada.
NV Nurse Aide Registry
NEW HAMPSHIRE
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in New Hampshire.
NH Nurse Aide Registry
NEW JERSEY
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in New Jersey.
Certification Program
NEW MEXICO
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in New Mexico.
NM Nurse Aide Registry
Online NAR Abuse Registry – Link is to NAR and will show if abuse is substantiated.
NEW YORK
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in New York.
NY Nurse Aide Registry
NORTH CAROLINA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in North Carolina.
NC Nurse Aide Registry (Nurse Aide 1)
NORTH DAKOTA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in North Dakota.
ND Nurse Assistant Registry
OHIO
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Ohio.
OH Nurse Aide Registry OH
OKLAHOMA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Oklahoma.
OK Nurse Aide Registry
OREGON
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Oregon.
OR Nurse Aide Registry
PENNSYLVANIA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Pennsylvania.
PA Nurse Aide Registry
RHODE ISLAND
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Rhode Island.
RI Nurse Aide Registry
SOUTH CAROLINA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in South Carolina.
SC Nurse Aide Registry
SOUTH DAKOTA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in South Dakota.
SD Nurse Aide Registry
TENNESSEE
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Tennessee.
TN Nurse Aide Registry
TEXAS
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Texas.
TX Nurse Aide Registry
UTAH
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Utah.
UT Nurse Aide Registry
VERMONT
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Vermont.
VT Nurse Aide Registry
VIRGINIA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Virginia.
VA Nurse Aide Registry
WASHINGTON
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Washington.
WA OBRA Nurse Aide
WEST VIRGINIA
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in West Virginia.
WV Nurse Aide Registry
WISCONSIN
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Wisconsin.
WI Nurse Aide Registry
WYOMING
How Home Care Businesses verify Home Health Aide Licenses and Abuse Registries in Wyoming.
WY Nurse Aide Registry
Online NAR Abuse Registry – Written requests for abuse registry. The processing fee is $8.00. Can request one search per application.