CMS Nursing Home Compare (with abuse + SFF flags)

Dataset · US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · primary source ↗

Every Medicare/Medicaid-certified US nursing home (14,699 facilities) with the CRITICAL compliance flags: abuse_icon (1,497 facilities with confirmed abuse citations in the last 12 months) and special_focus_status (526 SFF / SFF-candidate facilities — the worst-performing 5%). Includes corporate chain affiliation for parent-org KYC. ProPublica + the Nursing Home Inspect project built reporting empires on this exact dataset.

Source agency
US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
14,699 facilities (1,497 abuse-flagged, 526 SFF)
API endpoint

Keywords

CMSnursing homeabuseSpecial Focus FacilitySFFelder careMedicareMedicaid5-star rating

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/4pq5-n9py. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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