Facility-level fields (overall/health/staffing/quality star ratings, certified beds, residents, ownership type, staffing hours) come from the CMS Care Compare “Provider Information” dataset, published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S. Government public domain).

What it is: point-in-time, facility-level public measures for Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes.
What it is not: a guarantee of current quality, and not medical advice. Ratings can change and may lag recent inspections.
Freshness: each module shows the import date and data period. We refresh on a schedule (see admin → Data sources).
No patient data: we store only facility-level public fields — never symptoms, diagnoses, medications, member IDs, or patient records.

Questions to ask a facility: current staffing levels, recent inspection results, ownership, and how they’ve addressed any past deficiencies.

Ownership data and the ownership explorer

The ownership explorer visualizes how facilities and their reported owners are connected, using the CMS Care Compare “Ownership” dataset.

Source-reported relationships: an edge means the source dataset reports that owner for that facility. It does not imply control, management quality, common operation, or any wrongdoing.
Connected facilities: facilities are “connected” when they report the same owner name. Names are matched after light normalization, so closely-spelled variants may not always link.
Bounded view: large owners can be associated with many facilities; the graph loads an initial set and lets you expand for more.

Report a data issue

Public data can be out of date or contain errors. If something looks wrong — a misattributed owner, an outdated relationship, or a facility mismatch — please contact us with the facility name and what you observed, and we’ll review it against the source. We do not alter official source records; we correct how they are matched and displayed.