Look up a nursing home, and put three of them side by side
Medicare inspects every certified nursing home and publishes what the inspectors found — but one home at a time, as a star and a date. This page holds the published record for all 14,690 of them: the four star ratings with CMS’s own footnote where CMS declines to rate, beds, who owns it, nurse hours and staff turnover measured against the median for that state, health citations counted by how much harm inspectors recorded, fire-safety citations, fines and payment denials with their totals, and the date of the last standard survey. Pick up to three homes and read them as one table.
Everything here runs in your browser against files we publish. Nothing you type is sent anywhere and nothing is stored. Figures are the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ as published; the only things computed here are counts and each state’s median, both from those same published figures. A figure CMS does not publish is shown as “not published” — never as zero.
Find a home
Choose a state to list every home in it, or type a name, a town or a six-character CCN. Choosing a second and third home builds the side-by-side table.
What this doesn’t tell you
- It is a copy, and copies go stale. Our files were loaded from the CMS Provider Data Catalog on 14 September 2026. A survey, a fine or a change of owner since then is on Medicare’s site and not here. Medicare’s Care Compare is the live record; check the home there before you decide.
- A citation count is not a severity reading. Thirty citations at “no actual harm” and one at “immediate jeopardy” are different facts about a home, which is why they are counted separately here. The count does not tell you what the citation was about; the inspector’s own text does, and that is in the paid record below.
- Star ratings are CMS’s judgement, not ours. We publish the star and the footnote CMS attaches to it. We do not rate, rank or score any home, and we do not translate CMS’s footnote numbers into wording of our own.
- Staffing is a payroll average, not a snapshot. Hours per resident per day come from CMS’s payroll-based journal over a quarter. A home can be well above the median on paper and short-staffed on the shift your relative is there.
- Assisted living is not here at all. These are Medicare-certified nursing homes. Assisted living and residential care are licensed by states and are not in the federal file.
- Nothing here is medical or legal advice, and no figure here is a recommendation to choose or avoid a home.
What this free tool gives you, and what the $69 record adds
This tool is not a teaser. Every figure above is the finding itself, and nothing is held back to make the paid report look better. What the paid Nursing Home Record adds is the part a count cannot carry:
- The full text of every citation with its scope and severity letter, its tag and its correction date — what inspectors actually wrote, not how many times they wrote something.
- The penalty table: every fine and payment denial with its date and amount, rather than a count and a total.
- Repeat problems: the same deficiency cited in two or more separate inspections, with the dates.
- A printable side-by-side document for up to three homes in one state, built to take to a discharge planner or a family meeting.
- The questions to ask on your visit, drawn from each home’s own citations, staffing and ownership changes.
If the counts above answer your question, you do not need the report. It is for the family that has a shortlist and days, not months, to decide.
The Nursing Home Record · $69 · Who else does this home’s owner run? · What is ordinary for homes in your state
About this lookup
Where does this data come from?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes it in the Provider Data Catalog. This tool reads six of those files: NH ProviderInfo, NH HealthCitations, NH FireSafetyCitations, NH Penalties, NH Ownership and NH SurveySummary. We loaded them into CivicDelta on 14 September 2026 and the tool prints that date beside every figure. The CMS files are the record; we do not add to them.
How is the state median worked out?
We take the published figure for every home in that state where CMS publishes one, sort them and take the middle value (the mean of the two middle values when the count is even). The tool shows how many homes the median was computed from, because CMS does not publish a staffing figure for every home. Homes in different states are never compared against one another’s medians.
Why does a home show “not published” instead of 0?
Because those are different facts. CMS publishes no staffing figure for 402 of the 14,690 homes, and no star rating for some others — it publishes a numbered footnote instead. Printing zero would invent a reading the federal file does not support, so we print what is true: CMS does not publish it.
Is Medicare’s own site better?
For the current state of one home, yes, and we link to it from every result. Care Compare is updated by CMS itself; our copy is a snapshot. What Care Compare does not do is put three homes in one table with their citation counts split by harm level and their staffing set against the state median, which is what this page is for.
Every dataset we hold, with its load date · how a record is checked before it reaches a page
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