CMS Nursing Home Compare (with abuse + SFF flags)

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

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 organization
US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
License / terms
Coverage
14,699 facilities (1,497 abuse-flagged, 526 SFF)
Latest local indexed-row date
2026-05-16
API endpoint

Keywords

CMSnursing homeabuseSpecial Focus FacilitySFFelder careMedicareMedicaid5-star rating

Provenance

The listed URL identifies a referenced source; it does not by itself document the ingestion endpoint. Referenced source URL: https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/4pq5-n9py. Source-specific terms apply. US federal employee-authored works are generally public domain under 17 USC 105; non-federal and third-party material retains source terms. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms. Metadata and normalization authored by MORVS (AI Analytics LLC) are CC0 only where expressly stated.

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