How to find out who owns a nursing home
Every Medicare-certified nursing home files its owners and managers with CMS, and CMS publishes the filing. CMS's ownership file lists all 14,690 certified homes, and 68.9% of homes are listed as part of a chain, so the name on the sign may not be the company behind the home.
The short version: find the home's six-character CCN, read its ownership filing role by role, and then search the owners' names across other homes. The filing distinguishes people and companies with a 5% or greater ownership stake from those with operational or managerial control, and both matter.
Doing it yourself, free
- Find the home on Medicare's Care Compare and note its CCN, the CMS Certification Number. It survives renaming, so it is the key for everything that follows.
- Open the home's ownership filing. CMS publishes it for every certified home in its nursing home provider data, one row per person or organization per role.
- Read the roles. The rows that answer “who owns it” are the ones whose role ends in OWNERSHIP INTEREST, direct or indirect, with or without the 5% threshold. The one that answers “who runs it” is OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL, filed for 12,229 homes. The full list of roles, with how many homes file each, is below.
- Note whether each owner is an individual or an organization. Where an organization owns the home, the people and companies behind it appear under the indirect ownership roles, if the home has filed them.
- Search the owner names across every other home. Our free owner lookup does this and shows each of those homes' star rating, citations and fines.
- Check the chain. CMS's provider file names the chain a home belongs to and how many homes that chain has; CMS also publishes chain performance measures.
- Ask the home directly who owns the building and who manages the care, and whether either has changed recently.
Ownership roles, as CMS writes them
How many certified homes file at least one entry under each role, and how many entries there are in total.
| Role | Homes | Entries |
|---|---|---|
| OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | 12,229 | 56,744 |
| CORPORATE OFFICER | 9,597 | 23,955 |
| ADP OF THE SNF | 9,274 | 72,201 |
| 5% OR GREATER DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST | 8,384 | 13,047 |
| CORPORATE DIRECTOR | 5,534 | 25,704 |
| W-2 MANAGING EMPLOYEE | 3,953 | 5,421 |
| 5% OR GREATER INDIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST | 3,950 | 13,559 |
| MANAGING CONTROL - GOVERNING BODY | 3,369 | 12,575 |
| INDIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST | 2,127 | 8,439 |
| DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST | 2,013 | 3,446 |
| INDIVIDUAL IS AN OWNER, PARTNER OR TRUSTEE OF ANY ADP OF THE SNF | 1,868 | 4,254 |
| 5% OR GREATER MORTGAGE INTEREST | 1,234 | 1,857 |
| 5% OR GREATER SECURITY INTEREST | 1,104 | 1,721 |
| TRUSTEE OF THE SNF | 917 | 3,498 |
| CONTRACTED MANAGING EMPLOYEE | 814 | 1,163 |
| Ownership Data Not Available | 658 | 658 |
| GENERAL PARTNERSHIP INTEREST | 330 | 510 |
| LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTEREST | 320 | 700 |
249,452 entries across 14,690 homes. 8,384 homes name at least one direct owner with a 5% or greater stake. 113 homes are flagged by CMS as having changed ownership in the last 12 months.
What an ownership filing can't tell you
- Percentages are often missing. 10,262 of the 38,491 ownership-interest entries (26.7%) say “no percentage provided”.
- Names are as filed. The same person or company can be spelled differently from one home's filing to the next, so a search by name can miss a match or join two different owners.
- It is self-reported to CMS, and a change of owner can take time to appear in the published file.
- Some filings are empty. 658 homes carry CMS's line “Ownership Data Not Available”.
- Ownership is not a verdict on care. The filing tells you who to ask about; the inspection record tells you what to ask.
For a shortlist of homes, the Nursing Home Record puts each home's owners next to the other homes they run and those homes' records.
Every figure on this page, and where it came from
Every number above is recomputed from the loaded records each time this page is built. Last rebuilt 2026-09-28.
| Dataset | Dataset ID | Captured |
|---|---|---|
| CMS Care Compare - Nursing Home Ownership | NH_Ownership_Aug2026.csv | 2026-09-14 |
| CMS Care Compare - Nursing Home Provider Information | NH_ProviderInfo_Aug2026.csv | 2026-09-14 |
CMS Care Compare provider data, loaded in full and reconciled against the publisher's own row count.
Questions people ask
Is nursing home ownership information public?
Yes. Every Medicare-certified nursing home reports its owners and managing parties to CMS, and CMS publishes them in its nursing home provider data, alongside the inspection files.
How do I find other nursing homes run by the same owner?
Search the owner's name across every home's ownership filing. Our free owner lookup does that and lists each matching home with its record. Check spellings: the same owner is not always written the same way.
What does operational or managerial control mean?
It is the role CMS's ownership file uses for a person or organization with operational or managerial control over the home. That can be a management company that does not own the home, which is why the role is worth reading alongside the owners. 12,229 homes file at least one such entry.
How many nursing homes are part of a chain?
10,116 of the 14,690 certified homes (68.9%) are listed by CMS as part of a chain.