Tools · CMS Nursing Home Compare · March 2026
Nursing home tools
Free, no-sign-up tools that let you work directly with CMS nursing-home quality data, compare states side by side, or look up any facility's full record.
- 14,703
- Certified facilities
- 53
- States & territories
- 3.0 / 5
- Average CMS overall rating
- $480.1M
- Federal fines on record
The national picture
Before you search, here is where all 14,572 rated U.S. nursing homes fall on the CMS 1–5 star scale, the curve every tool below works against.
U.S. nursing homes by CMS overall star rating
Interactive tools
- Compare Nursing Care by State Pick any U.S. states and compare nursing-home quality side by side, CMS overall, health, staffing and quality star ratings, nurse hours, turnover and share of 5-star homes, with a shareable link.
- Search Nursing Homes Look up any of the 14,703 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified facilities by name, city, ZIP, or county, then open its full CMS record, ratings, staffing, deficiencies, and penalties.
Ranked data explorers
Curated views of the same CMS dataset, ranked and grouped so you can start from a shortlist instead of a blank search box.
- Best-rated nursing homes Five-star facilities, ranked.
- Lowest-rated nursing homes One- and two-star facilities to scrutinize.
- Most-penalized nursing homes Facilities by federal civil money penalties.
- States by average rating How each state compares on CMS stars.
- Browse by state Every state, with its facilities and averages.
About these tools
Every figure these tools display is read live from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare program, the Provider Information, Health Deficiencies, MDS Quality Measures, and Penalties files, published quarterly at data.cms.gov. PlainNursing refreshes within 30 days of each release and does not alter the underlying records. CMS overall star ratings are force-curved within each state, so they are best read against in-state peers; see our methodology for the full sourcing and computation detail.