About SeniorCareRating.com

The data families need when choosing care is already public — but it is spread across large government files, published in raw formats, and hard to read without knowing which fields matter. Most sites that repackage it go the other way and add a score: their own ranking, grade, or “best of” list layered on top of the government’s numbers.

We do the opposite, deliberately. We report what CMS reports and stop there. There is no SeniorCareRating rating, score, grade, or ranking anywhere on this site. CMS star ratings are shown exactly as CMS publishes them, missing values are shown as missing rather than as zero, and every figure carries the date of the CMS data it came from. Where we calculate something for context — an average across a county, say — we label it as calculated and not a CMS rating.

That restraint is the point. A star rating is a government summary of past data, not a verdict on a facility today, and we would rather hand you the record and the caveat than an opinion dressed up as a verdict.

Nursing-home ratings, inspection deficiencies, federal penalties, staffing signals, care measures, and ownership records come from the CMS Provider Data Catalog (the data behind Medicare’s Care Compare). Home health agency star ratings, patient-outcome measures, services, and ownership type come from the CMS Home Health Care Agencies dataset.

We rebuild the site from those source files, so pages reflect a dated snapshot rather than a live feed — CMS data can lag current conditions, and we say so on every page. Our methodology explains exactly what we use and how we organize it; Data & sources lists the datasets and when each was last refreshed.

SeniorCareRating.com is free to use and is funded by advertising. Ads are kept separate from CMS data: an advertiser can never buy a placement inside a facility or agency listing, can never change how a provider’s records are shown, and can never influence what this site reports. An advertisement is not an endorsement. See our advertising & sponsorship policy for the full terms, and our privacy policy for how ad cookies are handled.

If a page looks inaccurate or out of date, we want to know — see Contact & corrections. Because we reproduce CMS records rather than author them, a correction usually means either our snapshot is stale or the underlying CMS record itself needs fixing at the source; the contact page explains how to tell which, and what we can do about each.

For the authoritative and most current record, always confirm with Medicare’s Care Compare, your state survey agency, and the provider directly.

SeniorCareRating.com is owned and operated by an Illinois limited liability company. It is an independent publication with no affiliation with, sponsorship from, or endorsement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare.gov, or any nursing home, home health agency, or ownership group listed on this site.

We do not sell leads, we do not accept payment from providers for placement or removal, and we do not offer care-placement services — so nothing on this site is steering you toward a provider who paid to be there.