Nursing Home Database Search
Make informed decisions about nursing home options with our comprehensive data and analysis. Our mission is to make CMS nursing home data available and useful—turning official monthly releases into something families, advocates, and researchers can actually navigate.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes a large amount of nursing home data every month, often as bulk tables and files that take technical work to join, interpret, and keep current. Valuable as those files are, most people never benefit from data that sits in downloads and code lists. We ingest and reconcile those federal sources so inspections, ratings, staffing, ownership, and related records show up in one place, in context, and in language you should not need a data analyst to decode.
“Useful” means you can answer practical questions: how a facility compares, how it has changed over time, who is connected across properties, and what the official record says—not just that a row exists in a government table. That same curated picture also powers our lists, reports, and developer and AI interfaces, so humans and software alike draw from a consistent interpretation of CMS—not a one-off scrape of this month’s file names.
For AI Users, Agents, and Developers
Do you use a Generative AI assistant like ChatGPT or Claude or others? If so, you can point your assistant to our MCP server at https://mcp.nursinghomedatabase.com/mcp and have it do the searching for you. Ask your question and use our data to help you find the answers.
- Prefer scripts? Use a public REST API for JSON over HTTPS. Or set up MCP using our setup guide.
- Fair use applies; high-volume or commercial use may need a custom data arrangement.
Lists & Analysis
Turning CMS feeds into insight is ongoing work: each refresh can shift ratings, citations, and staffing. We distill that stream into rankings, movers, and state-level views so the mission behind the data—public transparency about care—shows up in forms you can scan and share. Below are some of the more popular reports.
About Nursing Home Database
The NursingHomeDatabase.com database is a comprehensive collection of information about healthcare providers in the United States. We pull our data primarily from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), the federal agency that regulates and oversees healthcare providers in the United States.
Our database is updated regularly to ensure that we have the most current information available. We also use a variety of quality assurance measures to ensure the accuracy and completeness of our data. This means that you can trust the information you find on NursingHomeDatabase.com to be reliable and up to date.
Data sources and access
We aggregate data from official government sources, primarily the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This ensures that the ratings, inspection reports, and staffing data you see are based on verified federal records. We process that data to make it easier for you to understand and compare different facilities.
For individuals, that work shows up as search, lists, and analysis on this site. For developers and AI systems, we also expose the same curated information through a REST API and MCP server—a stable interface to CMS-derived nursing home data without reverse-engineering bulk monthly releases.