Nursing homes

SeniorCareRating.com includes 14,700 CMS-certified nursing homes across 53 states and territories, built from the official CMS Provider Data Catalog. CMS publishes an overall star rating for 14,568 of them; the rest are shown as not rated rather than as a zero.

CMS publishes an overall five-star rating plus three component ratings — health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. The overall rating is calculated by CMS from those components. A star rating is a CMS summary of past data, not a judgment about a facility's current condition. We show each rating exactly as CMS publishes it and never add a rating of our own.

No. We report CMS-reported facts — star ratings, inspection citations, federal penalties, payment denials, staffing signals, care measures, and ownership — without adding any rating, score, ranking, or opinion. Where we calculate context, such as a county average, we label it as calculated and not a CMS rating.

The site is rebuilt from CMS source files, so every page reflects a dated snapshot rather than a live feed; the current nursing-home data was refreshed 2026-07-17. CMS data can lag current conditions, so confirm anything decision-critical with CMS Care Compare, your state survey agency, and the facility directly.

CMS certifies the same buildings under both Medicare (skilled nursing facility) and Medicaid (nursing facility) programs, and most certified providers appear in one CMS file. In everyday use, “skilled nursing facility” usually refers to short-term rehabilitation after a hospital stay, while “nursing home” usually refers to longer-term residential care. The CMS records on this site cover both.