About Us

Finding the right nursing home shouldn't feel like detective work. Families deserve transparent, trustworthy data when making one of the most important care decisions of their lives.

That's why we built nursinghomedata.org. We've developed proprietary analysis methods that transform complex Medicare inspection reports, staffing records, and quality metrics into clear, actionable insights. Our goal is simple: help you find safe, high-quality care for your loved ones.

We start with data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which inspects every nursing home in America. But raw government data isn't enough. We've built custom scoring models that weigh inspection severity, staffing ratios, clinical outcomes, and enforcement patterns to surface quality signals that aren't obvious from CMS star ratings alone. The result is our proprietary Trust Score, a refined metric that helps you compare facilities with confidence.

We do not accept advertising, sponsorships, or paid placements from nursing homes or healthcare facilities.

Every ranking, rating, and recommendation on this site is based solely on publicly available CMS data. No facility can pay to improve their listing, boost their ranking, or remove negative information. What you see is what the data shows.

We do work with lawyers and ecosystem service providers who help seniors navigate care options, placement decisions, and advocacy. These partnerships allow us to offer free personalized help to families (see our Get Help page), while maintaining complete editorial independence in how we analyze and present facility data.

Our foundation is CMS.gov data (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), the federal agency responsible for nursing home oversight. CMS publishes comprehensive datasets including overall star ratings, health inspection findings, staffing levels, quality measures, enforcement actions, and ownership information.

But we don't just republish government data. We've developed our own analytical frameworks to process these datasets:

• Weighted scoring algorithms that account for inspection severity, not just pass/fail
• Staffing quality indicators that go beyond simple RN hour counts
• Outcome correlation models that identify facilities with consistently better resident results
• Enforcement pattern analysis to flag facilities with repeat violations
• Peer comparison benchmarks that show how facilities rank within their state and nationally

We refresh our models monthly when CMS releases new data. Learn more about our proprietary Trust Score methodology on our Methodology page.

We're a small, independent research team focused on making senior care data accessible and understandable. Our backgrounds span data science, healthcare policy, and consumer advocacy.

We started this project after watching friends and family struggle to evaluate nursing homes during urgent, stressful situations. The data existed (thanks to Medicare's transparency requirements), but it was scattered across spreadsheets, buried in PDFs, and impossible to compare. We built the tool we wished had existed.

Today, we maintain profiles for over 14,000 nursing homes nationwide, covering every Medicare and Medicaid certified facility in the United States. We're continually improving our analysis methods, adding new data dimensions, and building features that make care decisions easier.

For families seeking care advice: Visit our Get Help page to tell us what you're looking for. We'll research options and send you our honest recommendations.

For facilities: If you believe any information on your listing is inaccurate or contradicts the official CMS data, please email us at listings@nursinghomedata.org with documentation. We review all data corrections and update listings when evidence supports a change.

For press inquiries or partnership opportunities: Email listings@nursinghomedata.org. We're always interested in collaborations that help more families access quality care information.