Facilities

Nursing home ratings, staffing and penalties

The federal government rates every certified nursing home in the country and publishes how many nurse hours each one actually delivers per resident. The data is public and almost unreadable in its native form. We put each home's numbers next to its state average so they mean something, and we charge nothing to read them.

  • Homes published84
  • States covered2
  • Certified homes in those states350
  • Data releaseJune 2026

We also read the staffing files for every nursing home in the country. See the national staffing study for what weekend cover and turnover look like across all 50 states.

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Browse by state

Each state page carries the averages its homes get measured against: how the stars are distributed, what nurse staffing runs, and how many homes have been fined.

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    Arizona

    42 homes published across 2 cities. CMS certifies 140 statewide.

    3.41of 5 stars

    State average across the 139 homes CMS rates

  • Illustration of the Colorado high plains in low warm light: dry golden grass in the foreground, red brick buildings and dark evergreens at the foot of the hills, and layered blue ranges behind them with snow on the far peaks, under a pale cream sky.

    Colorado

    42 homes published across 2 cities. CMS certifies 210 statewide.

    3.15of 5 stars

    State average across the 208 homes CMS rates

What we publish, and what we don't

Every figure here comes from the CMS Provider Data Catalog. We do not inspect, rate or rank nursing homes ourselves, and we take no money from any facility listed.

Methodology ยท Every source we use

  • A home publishes at 10 of 12 fields

    CMS has to have published at least 10 of the 12 fields these pages are built from. A home whose ratings are all blank is a stub, and a stub helps nobody.

  • Every number is compared, not just listed

    A rating of 3 stars means nothing on its own. Each home's figures sit next to its state average, which is the comparison CMS publishes the data for and almost nobody makes.

  • Coverage grows one state at a time

    We hold 2 states today. Our other dataset covers what senior care costs metro by metro, taken from prices operators publish themselves, and it is on the cost pages. Both are free to cite.