AgedCareScan — Aged Care Star Ratings & Quality Comparisons for Australia
A comparison site that makes the Australian Government's official aged care quality ratings genuinely usable for the families who need them most.
Clarity for one of life's hardest decisions
Most families choose an aged care home exactly once — under time pressure, guided by brochures. Australia actually publishes quality ratings for every government-funded residential facility, but raw government data was never designed for a worried son or daughter searching at midnight.
AgedCareScan is an own product built to close that gap. It takes the official Star Ratings, quality indicators and staffing figures for every Australian Government-funded residential aged care facility and reshapes them into readable profiles, state-level rankings and a running list of the top-rated homes. The audience is twofold: families comparing options, and sector professionals who want fast context on any facility.
What you can do on the site
- Search any facility and open its quality profile in seconds.
- Browse by state or territory — all eight jurisdictions, each with its facility count and average star rating.
- See the top-rated homes, including the five-star facilities and the providers who run them.
- Understand the four official sub-ratings: Residents' Experience, Compliance, Quality Measures and Staffing.
- Check staffing depth via care minutes and registered nurse minutes per resident per day, benchmarked nationally.
- Read the guide and blog explaining how Star Ratings work and what to look at before committing.
Coverage in numbers
Straight from the homepage counters: 2,596 rated facilities, a national average of 3.8 stars, 223 average care minutes per resident per day and 127 five-star facilities. Geographic spread runs from New South Wales (823 facilities) and Victoria (730) through Queensland (457) down to the Northern Territory (9).
Every figure originates in public Australian Government records — the product's job is to keep them fresh, comparable and readable. Visit agedcarescan.com.
Under the hood
AgedCareScan is custom-built — no templates, no plugins. A Laravel + PHP backend sits on a MySQL database tuned to serve thousands of facility pages fast. Each facility, state and ranking page is its own indexable URL, which makes the site a textbook programmatic SEO play: information architecture and internal linking do the customer acquisition.
A data pipeline normalises the official records and recomputes averages and rankings on every refresh, so the homepage stats always mirror the live dataset.
Frequently asked questions
Where does AgedCareScan get its data?
From the Star Ratings the Australian Government publishes for every government-funded residential aged care facility. AgedCareScan restructures those public records into comparable profiles — 2,596 rated facilities at the time of writing.
What do the four sub-ratings actually measure?
Residents' Experience (interviews about day-to-day life in the home), Compliance (the facility's record against aged care quality standards), Quality Measures (clinical indicators such as falls, pressure injuries and medication management) and Staffing (care minutes and registered nurse minutes per resident per day versus national benchmarks).
Can I browse facilities state by state?
Yes. All eight Australian jurisdictions are covered with their own listings and average scores — from 823 facilities in New South Wales and 730 in Victoria down to 9 in the Northern Territory.
How rare is a five-star rating?
Quite rare: the site's own homepage counters show 127 five-star facilities out of 2,596 rated, against a national average of 3.8 stars and 223 average care minutes per resident per day.
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