About Beta ALW Care Coordination
Beta ALW Care Coordination is a Care Coordination Agency for California's Assisted Living Waiver (ALW). ALW is a Medi-Cal program that pays for care in an assisted-living home. Beta serves all fifteen counties where ALW operates; the DHCS list of agencies shows Beta under six of them. It is the ALW program of Beta Hospice Care, Inc. DHCS decides eligibility and releases openings. Each home decides its own admissions. Facts about Beta.
Latest waitlist figures
Two sources, kept apart:
- DHCS monthly file. In March 2026, 15,910 people were on the ALW waitlist and 14,831 were enrolled. Read from the DHCS file on October 15, 2026.
- Senate hearing. On August 12, 2026, DHCS told a California Senate budget subcommittee that 17,886 people were on the waitlist and 14,495 were enrolled. DHCS gave an average time to enroll of 11 to 12 months for people moving out of a nursing facility or other institution, and 3 to 4 months for people referred by Adult Protective Services or the Long-Term Care Ombudsman. DHCS gave no ALW average for people applying from the community.
These are averages, not promises. See every month of DHCS counts. Read what DHCS told the Senate. Read the hearing transcript ↗
Chart
Download the chart (PNG) The image updates when a new DHCS month is added. Please link it to the waitlist tracker.
How to cite
ALW waitlist tracker, Beta, from DHCS enrollment and waitlist files, alwbeta.com/data/waitlist
For the hearing figures, cite the hearing itself:
California Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 3 on Health and Human Services, hearing of August 12, 2026, transcript, https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/279907
The data may be reused with attribution under CC BY 4.0 ↗. How we source the figures.
Press contact
Email info@alwbeta.com.