An independent directory of post-operative recovery houses. No facility pays to be here, we have not inspected any of them, and this page explains exactly what that means for how much you should trust it.
Search for a plastic surgery recovery house in Miami, Dallas or Los Angeles and you get individual houses' own marketing, a surgeon's referral page, and general-purpose review sites. There is no comparison layer — nowhere that puts the nightly rate, the real multi-night total, the nursing arrangement and the room type side by side.
That gap matters more here than in most categories, because of who is searching. People book these stays from another state, sight unseen, for two to four thousand dollars, with a fixed surgery date and while frightened. That is close to the worst possible conditions for making a careful comparison, and the market has not built anything to help.
Four axes, chosen because they are the ones that actually change the decision and because they can be stated accurately from what facilities publish.
The total, not the nightly rate. Nobody books one night after surgery, so a nightly rate is a misleading unit. Every listing shows an estimated seven-night cost beside it, plus the add-on pricing we could find. This regularly reverses the apparent ranking: the cheapest rate in a metro often produces the highest bill once nursing and transport are added.
Who is actually in the building. This market advertises "24-hour care" for at least three different arrangements — a nurse sleeping on site, a caregiver or aide on site, and someone reachable by phone. We treat those as separate facts and never merge them. A listing says "nurse on site" only where the source says nurse; a caregiver is labelled as a caregiver and explicitly noted as not a nurse; on-call is not counted as on site at all. If you are choosing a house because you are worried about the first two nights, this is the distinction you are shopping for.
Private or shared. A quote frequently turns out to be for a shared room when you assumed private. Room type is on every listing.
Included versus billed. Meals, airport transport, surgeon transport, lymphatic sessions and guest fees are included at some facilities and extra at others, and that difference is worth more than the rate gap between them.
Facilities' own published information — websites, listed rates, published service descriptions — plus public review data where it exists. It lives in a spreadsheet, and the site is generated from it, so every page is built from the same source rather than hand-edited. Each listing has its own permanent URL.
Fields are left empty rather than estimated. If a listing does not show a rating, we did not find one; if it does not show a nurse credential, the facility did not state one. An empty field means we do not know, never that the answer is no.
The original plan for this site was to lead on licence verification: check every facility against its state registry and publish a badge. We designed that feature, started the research, and then pulled it before launch. Two reasons, both worth being open about.
First, maintenance. A licence is a fact about a particular week. Keeping licence records current across twenty metros by hand is a substantial ongoing job, and a "verified" badge that had quietly gone stale would be worse than no badge at all — it would be actively misleading at the exact moment someone was relying on it.
Second, accuracy. Licensing for these facilities varies enormously by state, and in many states there is no licence category for them whatsoever. A badge reading "unlicensed" would be a meaningless accusation in one state and the most important fact on the page in another. Getting that wrong in either direction is unacceptable — unfair to a legitimate business in the first case, dangerous to a reader in the second.
So we do not publish licence badges. What we do instead is tell you to ask. The red flags guide includes the licence question and what to do with the answer, and checking a number yourself with your state's health agency takes a couple of minutes and is the highest-value thing you can do with them. We would rather point you at the check than imply we have done it for you. If we build the verification layer later, it will arrive with dates, sources and a stated refresh cadence, or not at all.
If you are seeing a banner at the top of the page about demo data, the listings below it are fictional placeholders built to demonstrate the interface — invented names prefixed "DEMO:", 555 phone numbers, example.com websites. They are not real businesses and nothing about them should be relied on. They disappear from every page as soon as real researched listings replace them.
We will get things wrong — rates change, services change, facilities open and close. If something here is wrong about a facility, whether you run it or stayed at it, tell us and we will fix it. Corrections are free and always will be; there is no version of this where accuracy is something a business pays for. Send a correction →