# CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🔎🏥 (`delectable_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper-low-cost`) Actor

Scrape CMS Care Compare nursing home ratings 🔎🏥 with a powerful healthcare data scraper.

Extract nursing home names, overall ratings, staffing ratings, inspection scores, locations, phone numbers, and more from URLs.

Ideal for healthcare research and structured health datasets 📊🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper-low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Jobs, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

<p align="center"> <img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper" width="100%"> </p>

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### CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper 🏥⭐📊

The CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper is a powerful and scalable Apify Actor designed to extract structured nursing home rating data directly from CMS Care Compare (Medicare.gov).

It enables healthcare research, compliance monitoring, investment analysis, and public health benchmarking using official CMS data.

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### 🎯 What This Scraper Does

Simply provide one or more CMS Care Compare search URLs and the scraper handles everything automatically.

✅ Extracts nursing home listings from CMS Care Compare

✅ Intercepts CMS responses

✅ Collects structured facility & rating data

✅ Supports pagination and multi-page scraping

✅ Applies maxItemsPerUrl limits

✅ Outputs clean, ready-to-use datasets

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### 📊 Data Extracted

🏥 Facility Information

| Field                    | Description              |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------ |
| 🆔 providerId            | CMS provider identifier  |
| 🏥 name                  | Nursing home name        |
| 🏢 legalBusinessName     | Registered business name |
| 🏷 ownershipType         | Ownership type           |
| 📍 addressLine1          | Street address           |
| 🏙 addressCity           | City                     |
| 🗺 addressState          | State                    |
| 📮 addressZipcode        | ZIP code                 |
| ☎️ phone                 | Phone number             |
| 🛏 numberOfCertifiedBeds | Certified beds           |
| 📏 distance              | Distance from search     |
| 🌍 lat / lon             | Coordinates              |

⭐ Ratings Data

| Field                     | Description             |
| ------------------------- | ----------------------- |
| ⭐ overallRating           | Overall CMS rating      |
| 🏥 healthInspectionRating | Inspection rating       |
| 📊 qmRating               | Quality measures rating |
| 👩‍⚕️ staffingRating      | Staffing rating         |
| 🛌 longStayQMRating       | Long-stay quality       |
| ⏱ shortStayQMRating       | Short-stay quality      |

⚠️ Compliance & Safety

| Field                                | Description         |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------- |
| 💰 numberOfFines                     | Regulatory fines    |
| 🚫 numberOfPaymentDenials            | Payment denials     |
| ⚠️ citedForAbuse                     | Abuse citations     |
| 📢 numberOfFacilityReportedIncidents | Reported incidents  |
| 📄 numberOfSubstantiatedComplaints   | Verified complaints |

👩‍⚕️ Staffing & Inspection Metrics

| Field                                     | Description          |
| ----------------------------------------- | -------------------- |
| 📅 ratingCycleOneStandardHealthSurveyDate | Last inspection date |
| ⚠️ ratingCycleOneTotalHealthDeficiencies  | Deficiencies count   |
| 🔁 nursingStaffTurnover                   | Staff turnover rate  |
| 👩‍⚕️ registeredNurseTurnover             | RN turnover rate     |
| ⏳ nurseStaffHoursWeekend                  | Nurse hours/weekend  |
| ⏳ registeredNurseHoursWeekend             | RN hours/weekend     |

🏢 Chain Information

| Field                                 | Description           |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------- |
| 🏢 chainName                          | Chain name            |
| 🆔 chainId                            | Chain ID              |
| 🏨 numberOfFacilitiesInChain          | Total facilities      |
| ⭐ chainAverageOverall5StarRating      | Avg rating            |
| 🏥 chainAverageHealthInspectionRating | Avg inspection rating |

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### 🛠 How to Use

1️⃣ Configure Input

Provide one or multiple URLs:

```
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&state=NY",
    "https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&state=CA"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerUrl": 50
}
```

2️⃣ Run the Actor

• Call CMS Care Compare API

• Extract structured JSON data

• Paginate through results

• Normalize facility ratings

• Build structured dataset

3️⃣ Export the Dataset

Download your results in multiple formats:

✅ JSON

✅ CSV

✅ Excel

✅ XML

✅ HTML

***

### ⚙️ Input Configuration

#### 📥 Input Example

```
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&state=NY",
    "https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&state=CA"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerUrl": 50
}
```

#### Input Fields

| Field                   | Type    | Description                      |
| ----------------------- | ------- | -------------------------------- |
| `keywords`              | array   | YouTube search keywords          |
| `domainemail`           | array   | Email domains to filter          |
| `maxemails_per_keyword` | integer | Max emails collected per keyword |

***

### 📤 Output Example

```
{
  "providerId": "123456",
  "name": "Sunrise Care Center",
  "addressCity": "New York",
  "addressState": "NY",
  "overallRating": 4,
  "healthInspectionRating": 3,
  "qmRating": 5,
  "staffingRating": 4,
  "numberOfFines": 0,
  "numberOfSubstantiatedComplaints": 2
}
```

***

### 📊 Output explanation

🏥 Healthcare Research

📊 Public Health Analytics

⚖️ Compliance Monitoring

🏢 Investment Analysis

📉 Quality Benchmarking

📍 Geographic Facility Comparison

***

### 🌍 Why Use This Scraper?

🚀 Official CMS data source

⚡ Fast structured extraction

📊 Multi-page scraping support

🏥 Complete nursing home dataset

🔎 Compliance & safety insights

🤖 Automation-ready

***

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is an independent solution and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CMS or Medicare.gov.

***

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay per events subscription model**.

You only pay for **successful runs**.

💳 **Price:** $1.99 / 1000 results

***

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# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

One or more CMS Care Compare search URLs (NursingHome, Physician, Hospital, HomeCareAgencies, etc).

Examples:
• https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome\&page=1\&city=New%20York\&state=NY\&zipcode=\&radius=25\&sort=closest
• https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=Physician\&page=1\&city=Texas%20City\&state=TX\&zipcode=\&radius=15\&sort=closest

⚠️ URLs must be from medicare.gov.

## `maxItemsPerUrl` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of records to collect per search URL. Set to 0 for no limit.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxies to use for requests to medicare.gov.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Washington&state=DC&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerUrl": 40,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `nursing_homes` (type: `string`):

No description

## `ratings_summary` (type: `string`):

No description

## `by_source` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Washington&state=DC&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerUrl": 40,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper-low-cost").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "urls": ["https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Washington&state=DC&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest"],
    "maxItemsPerUrl": 40,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper-low-cost").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Washington&state=DC&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerUrl": 40,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper-low-cost --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,delectable_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper-low-cost"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/3c8PzkstkEC9kq5PT/builds/iZnS9sGOdemKbbx0R/openapi.json