Independent · Official records · No referral fees

Before you place them, read the file.

Every Medicare-certified nursing home, home-health agency and hospice in the United States has one page here: survey history, recorded deficiencies with the official tag and severity code, penalties, staffing, quality measures and the ownership chain — reproduced from CMS, dated, and linked to the official record on every line.

State-licensed assisted living is being added state by state, as each agency's inspection records are verified against the published documents. We do not rate, rank or recommend, and we take no referral fees.

14,680
nursing homes
19,033
home-health agencies and hospices
94K
surveys on file
419K
recorded deficiencies
What is in a file

Survey history

Every standard, complaint and infection-control survey, with the official Statement of Deficiencies linked — never a dash where the agency published a report.

Deficiencies as recorded

Every citation with the agency's own tag, description and scope/severity code. We add a plain-English class — paperwork, standard, or harm — so a records citation never looks like an injury.

The ownership chain

Direct and indirect owners as reported to CMS and the state, and the other facilities they operate — so you can read the operator's record, not just the building's.

How to read deficiencies

Look at the pattern and the correction, not the count.

CMS grades each nursing-home deficiency from A to L: the letter combines how many residents were affected with how serious the outcome was. Most citations are D or E — no actual harm, but a rule was not followed. We keep the official letter on every line and add one of three classes beside it.

Paperwork
A–C. Potential for minimal harm. Records, postings, policies.
Standard
D–F. No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. The majority of citations.
Harm
G–L. Actual harm (G–I) or immediate jeopardy (J–L). Read these in full.