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CMSNursing facilitiesUpdated 2026-04-01

Care Compare Nursing Homes

Five-star quality ratings, staffing scores, health inspection scores for Medicare-certified nursing homes. Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · 2026-04-01

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14,630
certified facilities
As of 2026-04-01
CMS · 2026-04-01
2024–2026
Temporal coverage
Refreshed quarterly
CMS · 2026-04-01
Location
FHIR resource
FHIR R4 · care-compare-nh/v1
Fonteum methodology

FHIR Location · Sample record

What a record looks like in the API response.

Sample record
{
  "resourceType": "Location",
  "id": "loc-015009",
  "_source": "cms-care-compare-nh",
  "_methodology": "care-compare-nh/v1",
  "name": "Burns Nursing Home, Inc.",
  "extension": [{ "url": "overallRating", "valueInteger": 4 }]
}

Every record carries _source, _methodology, a snapshot date, and a confidence tier. All fourteen provenance fields survive export and API delivery.

cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FONTEUM_KEY" \
  "https://api.fonteum.com/fhir/r4/Location?_source=nursing-homes" \
  | jq '._source, ._methodology, .meta.tag'

Fields in this record

What each field in the Location record means.

Every field below is taken from the live FHIR Location record above. Provenance fields (_source, _methodology, and the snapshot date) travel with each record through export and API delivery; identity fields key the record across federal datasets; data fields carry the measured values.

Field-level documentation for Care Compare Nursing Homes
FieldTypeRole
resourceTypestringIdentity
idstringIdentity
_sourcestringProvenance
_methodologystringProvenance
namestringData
extensionarrayData

Dataset facts

Dataset facts for Care Compare Nursing Homes
FieldValue
AgencyCenters for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCMS · 2026-04-01
CategoryNursing facilities
Records14,630 certified facilitiesCMS · 2026-04-01
Temporal coverage2024–2026
Refresh cadenceQuarterly
Freshness SLAWithin 48h of quarterly CMS release
Last synced2026-04-01Updated 2026-04-01
FHIR resourceLocation
Methodologycare-compare-nh/v1
MeasuredFive-star overall, staffing, and health inspection ratings per Medicare-certified nursing home
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Citations

  1. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — Care Compare Nursing Homes (upstream source)
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