Nursing Home Compare has detailed information about every Medicare and Medicaid nursing home in the country. A nursing home is a place for people who can’t be cared for at home and need 24-hour nursing care. These are the official datasets used on the Medicare.gov Nursing Home Compare Website provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These data allow you to compare the quality of care at every Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country, including over 15,000 nationwide.

Context

This official dataset from the Medicare.gov Nursing Home Compare website allows for comparison of over 15,000 Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing homes in the country.

Content

Separate data collections include:

• Deficiencies, including fire safety, health, and inspection cycle types

• Ownership details, including ownership percentage

• Penalties, including filing date, fee, and payment date

• Provider details, including non or for profit status, staff ratings, and survey scores

• Quality MSR (Minimum Savings Rate) claims, including adjusted and observed scores

• MDS (Minimum Data Set) quality measures, scored on a quarterly basis

• State averages, including total number of quarterly deficiencies, and nurse staffing hours

• Survey summaries for each nursing home

Inspiration

• How would you determine what the top ten best nursing homes in the country are? The least?

• Which states have the best level of nursing home care? The least?

• In general, what are the most common types of complaints and deficiencies?

Acknowledgements

This dataset was collected by Medicare.gov, and the original files can be accessed here.

Minimum Data Set Frequency

  Description

The Minimum Data Set (MDS) Frequency data summarizes health status indicators for active residents currently in nursing homes. The MDS is part of the Federally-mandated process for clinical assessment of all residents in Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes. This process provides a comprehensive assessment of each resident's functional capabilities and helps nursing home staff identify health problems. Care Area Assessments… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HHS-Official/minimum-data-set-frequency.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Nursing Homes This feature layer, utilizing data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), displays the locations of nursing homes in the U.S. Nursing homes provide a type of residential care. They are a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living. Per CMS, "Nursing homes, which include Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) and Nursing Facilities (NFs), are required to be in compliance with Federal requirements to receive payment under the Medicare or Medicaid programs. The Secretary of the United States Department of Health & Human Services has delegated to the CMS and the State Medicaid Agency the authority to impose enforcement remedies against a nursing home that does not meet Federal requirements." This layer includes currently active nursing homes, including number of certified beds, address, and other information. Bridgepoint Sub-Acute and Rehab Capitol HillData downloaded: September 1, 2025Data source: Provider InformationData modification: This dataset includes only those facilities with addresses that were appropriately geocoded.For more information: Nursing homes including rehab servicesSupport documentation: Nursing Home Data DictionaryFor feedback, please contact: ArcGIScomNationalMaps@esri.com Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Per USA.gov, "The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides health coverage to more than 100 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. The CMS seeks to strengthen and modernize the Nation’s health care system, to provide access to high quality care and improved health at lower costs."

A nursing home is commonly referred to as a skilled nursing facility, long term care (LTC) facility, or rest home, and may have a different standardized name throughout the United States, but is most commonly referred to as a nursing home. A nursing home traditionally offers 24-hour (skilled) nursing to the elderly or to disabled patients having a variety of medical conditions who require personal care services above that of an assisted living but do not require hospitalization. The personal care services provided may or may not include, but are not limited to: skilled nursing, long term inpatient care, room and board, meals, laundry, and assistance with: dressing, grooming, getting in and out of bed, medications, bathing, and toileting. For purposes of this dataset, an assisted living facility is defined as a facility where the elderly, who are not related to the operator, reside and receive care, treatment, or services. Although not at the level of a nursing home, the services are above the level of an independent living community. They may include several hours per week of supportive care, personal care, or nursing care per resident. Generally, an assisted living facility offers help in daily living (laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc.) and personal assistance (bathing, eating, clothing, etc.). Many assisted living facilities offer assistance with medication and a lesser level of nursing care than what is offered at a nursing home. Assisted living facilities may be regulated by size restrictions depending on which type of assisted living facility it is considered to be in the state in which it exists. For example, Adult Family Homes in Wisconsin have between 3-4 elderly residents while Community Based Residential Facilities have 5 or more. Almost every state has different terminology to describe their version of the assisted living facility system. The structures in which assisted living facilities exist are varied as well. Depending on the type, an assisted living facility may operate out of a personal residence or a nursing home style structure, and it may be set up as apartment style living or as a campus setting in a continuing care retirement community. Multiple assisted living facilities may exist at one location or may be co-located with nursing homes and/or other similar health care facilities. If a facility is licensed by a state and holds multiple licenses, it is represented once in this dataset for each license, even if the licenses are for the same location. This dataset does not include retirement communities, adult daycare facilities, or rehabilitation facilities. Nursing Homes that are operated by and co-located with a hospital are also excluded because the locations are included in the hospital dataset. Records with "-DOD" appended to the end of the [NAME] value are located on a military base, as defined by the Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI) military installations and military range boundaries. "#" and "*" characters were automatically removed from standard fields populated by TechniGraphics. Double spaces were replaced by single spaces in these same fields. Text fields in this dataset have been set to all upper case to facilitate consistent database engine search results. All diacritics (e.g., the German umlaut or the Spanish tilde) have been replaced with their closest equivalent English character to facilitate use with database systems that may not support diacritics. The currentness of this dataset is indicated by the [CONTDATE] field. Based on this field, the oldest record dates from 09/22/2009 and the newest record dates from 01/08/2010.

Payroll Based Journal Employee Detail Nursing Home Staffing

  Description

The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Employee Detail Nursing Home Staffing dataset provides information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis. The data include a system generated employee identification number, work date, job type and employment status, and hours worked for each nursing home employee. Note: This full dataset contains more records than most… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HHS-Official/payroll-based-journal-employee-detail-nursing-home.

Comprehensive dataset containing 25,416 verified Nursing home businesses in United States with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Skilled Nursing Facility Cost Report

  Description

The Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Cost Report dataset is a public use file that provides select measures from the skilled nursing facility annual cost report. This data includes provider information such as facility characteristics, utilization data, cost and charges by cost center (in total and for Medicare), Medicare settlement data, and financial statement data organized by CMS Certification Number.

  Dataset… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HHS-Official/skilled-nursing-facility-cost-report.

The 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Facilities (NSRCF) is a first-ever national probability sample survey that collects data on U.S. residential care providers, their staffs and services, and the people they serve. It is designed to provide national estimates of the number of residential care facilities operating in the United States, the number of residents receiving care, and the characteristics of both the facilities and their residents. NSRCF was conducted between March and November 2010. All residential care facilities that participated in the survey were places that were licensed, registered, listed, certified, or otherwise regulated by the state and that had 4 or more licensed, certified, or registered beds, provided room and board with at least two meals a day, around-the-clock on-site supervision, and help with personal care such as bathing and dressing or health related services such as medication management. These facilities served a predominantly adult population and had at least one current resident. Facilities licensed to serve the mentally ill or the developmentally disabled populations exclusively were excluded from the survey.

Note: This web page provides data on health facilities only. To file a complaint against a facility, please see: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/FileAComplaint.aspx

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Center for Health Care Quality, Licensing and Certification (L&C) Program licenses and certifies more than 30 types of healthcare facilities. The Electronic Licensing Management System (ELMS) is a CDPH data system created to manage state licensing-related data and enforcement actions. This file includes California healthcare facilities that are operational and have a current license issued by the CDPH and/or a current U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) certification.

To link the CDPH facility IDs with those from other Departments, like HCAI, please reference the "Licensed Facility Cross-Walk" Open Data table at https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/licensed-facility-crosswalk. Facility geographic variables are updated monthly, if latitude/longitude information is missing at any point in time, it should be available when the next time the Open Data facility file is refreshed.

Please note that the file contains the data from ELMS as of the 11th business day of the month. See DATA_DATE variable for the specific date of when the data was extracted.

Map of all Health Care Facilities in California: https://go.cdii.ca.gov/cdph-facilities

Evaluating Health Home Care Quality

CMS Core Set and Health Home SPA Measures

By Health Data New York [source]

About this dataset

This dataset provides comprehensive measures to evaluate the quality of medical services provided to Medicaid beneficiaries by Health Homes, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Core Set and Health Home State Plan Amendment (SPA). This allows us to gain insight into how well these health homes are performing in terms of delivering high-quality care. Our data sources include the Medicaid Data Mart, QARR Member Level Files, and New York State Delivery System Inform Incentive Program (DSRIP) Data Warehouse. With this data set you can explore essential indicators such as rates for indicators within scope of Core Set Measures, sub domains, domains and measure descriptions; age categories used; denominators of each measure; level of significance for each indicator; and more! By understanding more about Health Home Quality Measures from this resource you can help make informed decisions about evidence based health practices while also promoting better patient outcomes

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How to use the dataset

This dataset contains measures that evaluate the quality of care delivered by Health Homes for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). With this dataset, you can get an overview of how a health home is performing in terms of quality. You can use this data to compare different health homes and their respective service offerings.

The data used to create this dataset was collected from Medicaid Data Mart, QARR Member Level Files, and New York State Delivery System Incentive Program (DSRIP) Data Warehouse sources.

In order to use this dataset effectively, you should start by looking at the columns provided. These include: Measurement Year; Health Home Name; Domain; Sub Domain; Measure Description; Age Category; Denominator; Rate; Level of Significance; Indicator. Each column provides valuable insight into how a particular health home is performing in various measurements of healthcare quality.

When examining this data, it is important to remember that many variables are included in any given measure and that changes may have occurred over time due to varying factors such as population or financial resources available for healthcare delivery. Furthermore, changes in policy may also affect performance over time so it is important to take these things into account when evaluating the performance of any given health home from one year to the next or when comparing different health homes on a specific measure or set of indicators over time

Research Ideas

• Using this dataset, state governments can evaluate the effectiveness of their health home programs by comparing the performance across different domains and subdomains.
• Healthcare providers and organizations can use this data to identify areas for improvement in quality of care provided by health homes and strategies to reduce disparities between individuals receiving care from health homes.
• Researchers can use this dataset to analyze how variations in cultural context, geography, demographics or other factors impact delivery of quality health home services across different locations

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. Data Source

License

See the dataset description for more information.

Columns

File: health-home-quality-measures-beginning-2013-1.csv | Column name | Description | |:--------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------| | Measurement Year | The year in which the data was collected. (Integer) | | Health Home Name | The name of the health home. (String) | | Domain | The domain of the measure. (String) | | Sub Domain | The sub domain of the measure. (String) | | Measure Description | A description of the measure. (String) | | Age Category | The age category of the patient. (String) | | Denominator | The denominator of the measure. (Integer) | | Rate | The rate of the measure. (Float) | | Level of Significance | The level of significance of the measure. (String) | | Indicator | The indicator of the measure. (String) |

Acknowledgements

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The Community Nursing Home (CNH) database contains a list of all Community Nursing Home facilities under local contract to Veterans Health Administration (VHA). CNH facilities are not managed by VA. Instead, CNH facilities are private or public facilities licensed by the state where they provide the patient services. Each day all Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) that have a contract with a CNH enter information about the CNH into the Fee Basis module of Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture. This information is sent via MailMan to the VA Austin Information Technology Center where it is collected in a queue. A quarterly batch process is run on the queue. VAMCs that have sent invalid data or VAMCs that have contracts and did not send data are notified. Valid data is processed and used to update the database. Quarterly reports are sent to the CNHs, VAMCs, Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), Geriatrics & Extended Care Strategic Health Care Group, and VA Central Office (VACO).

The Long-Term Care Facility Characteristics, CMS Form 671, dataset provides information submitted by nursing homes on the CMS Form 671 collected during annual surveys. The data include information about resident census, ownership, dedicated special care units, facility characteristics, and staffing. Note: Annual surveys are conducted every 9 to 15 months. Additionally, some states are experiencing delays in conducting annual surveys, resulting in longer periods of time since the last annual survey. As such, some of the data included in these files may not be up to date.

This dataset contains quarterly data on non-nurse staffing levels in nursing homes, as reported through the Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) system. It includes daily hours that non-nurse staff are paid to work, along with the facility's daily census derived from Minimum Data Set (MDS) submissions. The dataset is designed to provide verifiable staffing information for non-nurse roles in nursing facilities. It's important to note that this dataset is very large and requires database or statistical software to handle effectively.

Source Organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Data Collection System: Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) system

Purpose of Data Collection:
To obtain verifiable and standardized daily non-nurse staffing information from Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing homes. This data is used for:

• Comprehensive staffing analysis in nursing homes, covering roles beyond nursing staff.
• Contributing to quality assessments and potentially value-based purchasing programs.
• Enhancing oversight and enforcement of staffing standards across all roles.
• Public transparency and research into the broader spectrum of nursing home staffing.

Data Scope:
Daily staffing levels reported by nursing homes for non-nurse staff, including:

• Hours paid for various non-nurse staff roles (e.g., therapists, social workers, activities staff, etc.).
• Employee and contract staff hours for non-nurse roles.
• Daily facility census (derived from MDS submissions).
• Facility characteristics (location, Medicare Provider Number, etc.).

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period:
Quarterly data, updated approximately four times per year. Check the CMS Data website for the latest data quarters.

Accessibility:
Publicly available on the CMS Data website.

Intended Use:
This dataset is valuable for understanding the roles of non-nurse staff in nursing homes. It can be used for research on:

• Analyzing non-nurse staffing trends.
• Investigating the impact of non-nurse staffing on quality of care and resident outcomes.
• Developing staffing models that consider the contributions of all staff roles.
• Informing policy related to comprehensive staffing in nursing facilities.

Information on quality and performance measures for groups of nursing homes that share common individual or organizational owners, officers, or entities with operational/managerial control.The Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset provides select quality and performance measures from Care Compare for groups of nursing homes that share common individual or organizational owners, officers, or entities with operational/managerial control. The data include measures such as average health and staffing star ratings, staffing measures, average quality star ratings, select enforcement remedies, claims-based and Minimum Data Set (MDS) measures, average Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (SNF QRP) metrics, and COVID-19 vaccination rates.

The Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Enrollments dataset provides enrollment information of all SNF 's currently enrolled in Medicare. This data includes information on the SNF's legal business name, doing business as name, organization type and address.

From the project Web site: "To date, the Long-Term Care COVID Tracker is the most comprehensive dataset about COVID-19 in US long-term care facilities. It compiles crucial data about the effects of the pandemic on a population with extraordinary vulnerabilities to the virus due to age, underlying health conditions, or proximity to large outbreaks.

The dataset compiles all currently available information of COVID-19 cases and related deaths in long-term care facilities—nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and other care homes—and tracks both residents and staff."

This dataset is about news. It has 1 row and is filtered where the keywords includes Nursing home care-United States. It features 10 columns including source, publication date, section, and news link.

Nursing home facility data were downloaded from the NYS Dept. of Health website. For more information on nursing home facilities, visit http://www.health.state.ny.us/facilities/nursing/index.htm. The nursing home facility data were last updated April, 2019.

This dataset shows the the America Best Nursing Homes in 2023 issued by the Newsweek and Statista.