CMS Nursing Home Compare — Star Ratings & Staffing Scraper

Extract the complete CMS Nursing Home Compare provider directory — over 14,700 Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes in the United States — with the official 5-star ratings, staffing hours per resident per day, health-inspection deficiency outcomes, ownership type, chain affiliation, abuse flags, special-focus status, and full facility contact info.

This is the regulator-grade data set the federal government uses to rank long-term care facilities. It is the gold standard for any business, attorney, family member, or researcher trying to evaluate, compare, or sell to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).

Data fields

Field	Description
ccn	CMS Certification Number — primary facility identifier
providerName, legalBusinessName	Facility name and legal owner name
address, city, state, zipCode, county	Location
phone	Facility telephone
ownershipType	For profit / Non profit / Government, plus structure (Corporation, LLC, Individual, etc.)
providerType	Medicare, Medicaid, or both
certifiedBeds	Number of CMS-certified beds
avgResidentsPerDay	Average daily census
firstApprovedDate	Date first approved for Medicare/Medicaid
overallRating	CMS overall 5-star rating
healthInspectionRating, staffingRating, qmRating	Component star ratings
longStayQmRating, shortStayQmRating	Long-stay vs short-stay quality measure ratings
specialFocusStatus	Special Focus Facility / SFF candidate designation
abuseIcon	CMS abuse icon flag
sprinklersInAllRequiredAreas	Fire safety
chainName, chainId, chainFacilityCount, chainAvgOverallRating	Ownership chain
totalNurseStaffingHoursPerResidentPerDay	Total nurse hours / resident / day
rnStaffingHoursPerResidentPerDay, nurseAideStaffingHoursPerResidentPerDay	Component staffing
totalNursingStaffTurnoverPct, rnTurnoverPct, administratorsLeftCount	Workforce stability
changedOwnershipLast12Months, ccrc, inHospital, urban	Operational context

How to scrape CMS nursing home data

1. (Optional) Set state, city, county to scope a region.
2. (Optional) Set minOverallRating to filter by quality (e.g. 4+ stars).
3. (Optional) Enable specialFocusOnly for the worst-performing CMS-flagged facilities.
4. (Optional) Enable abuseIconOnly for facilities currently flagged for abuse.
5. (Optional) Set chainName to find facilities owned by a specific chain.
6. (Optional) Set ownershipType to filter by For profit, Non profit, Government, etc.
7. Set maxResults (0 = unlimited).
8. Click Start.

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.003 per nursing home record. Pulling the full directory (~14,700 facilities) costs about $44. Most users run state- or chain-scoped pulls of a few dozen to a few thousand records.

Input example

{
  "state": "FL",
  "minOverallRating": 4,
  "ownershipType": "Non profit"
}

Output example

{
  "ccn": "015009",
  "providerName": "BURNS NURSING HOME, INC.",
  "city": "RUSSELLVILLE",
  "state": "AL",
  "zipCode": "35653",
  "phone": "2563324110",
  "ownershipType": "For profit - Corporation",
  "certifiedBeds": 57,
  "overallRating": 2,
  "healthInspectionRating": 2,
  "staffingRating": 4,
  "qmRating": 4,
  "totalNurseStaffingHoursPerResidentPerDay": 4.04877,
  "totalNursingStaffTurnoverPct": 41.9
}

Use cases

• B2B sales to SNFs: medical supply, food service, EHR / billing software, infection-control consultants, agency staffing, capital projects — segment by ownership type, chain, or rating tier.
• Elder-law and personal-injury attorneys: identify facilities with abuse flags, low staffing, or special focus status.
• M&A / private-equity targeting: chain-level rollups by state with rating and staffing context.
• Family decision-support apps: compare facilities in a ZIP code by star rating and staffing.
• Health policy research / journalism: nationwide analysis of staffing turnover, ownership churn, deficiency patterns.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? CMS refreshes Nursing Home Compare monthly. Each run hits the live API.

Can I get historical ratings? This Actor returns the current snapshot. For longitudinal analysis, run periodically and snapshot.

Are inspection-citation details included? Component scores and deficiency counts are included. Citation-level F-tags require a sibling CMS dataset; we can build that on request.

Legal

Data sourced from data.cms.gov — the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services public Provider Data Catalog. All records are public by federal statute. No authentication bypass; no scraping of personally identifying resident data — this Actor returns facility-level records only.