🏥 CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

Collect nursing home ratings, inspection results, staffing data, and compliance penalties from the official CMS Care Compare database. Perfect for healthcare researchers, consultants, and families comparing facilities. No coding required. Download 47 data fields per facility as CSV, Excel, or JSON. Monitor rating changes, analyze staffing hours, track fines, and identify compliance trends across all 14,700+ US nursing homes.

The CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper collects comprehensive quality metrics and operational data from the CMS Provider Data catalog for all US nursing homes, with up to 47 fields per facility, supporting filter-based searches by state, city, ownership, and quality ratings.

✨ What Does It Do

• 📊 Overall Rating - Track five-star quality ratings to identify top-performing and struggling facilities
• 🏥 Health Inspection Rating - Access compliance scores from state health inspections to assess regulatory adherence
• 👥 Staffing Rating - Compare staffing levels and hours per resident across facilities to evaluate care quality
• 📈 Quality Measure Rating - Review clinical outcomes and resident health metrics to benchmark care performance
• 💰 Total Penalties & Fines - Monitor enforcement actions and financial penalties to identify facilities with compliance issues
• 🔍 Facility Details - Collect provider names, certification numbers, bed counts, ownership types, and location data for comprehensive facility profiles

🔧 Input

• Max Items - Users can collect up to 100 results per run on the free plan. Extended plan users can set any limit up to 1,000,000
• State - Filter by US state using 2-letter codes (e.g. CA, TX, NY). Leave blank to search all states
• City - Narrow results to a specific city (e.g. Los Angeles, Houston)
• ZIP Code - Filter by postal code for location-specific searches
• Provider Name - Search by nursing home name. Supports partial matches to find all facilities with keywords in their name
• CMS Certification Number - Look up a specific facility using its unique 6-digit CCN identifier
• Overall Rating - Filter by five-star overall quality rating (1-5)
• Health Inspection Rating - Filter by state inspection rating (1-5)
• Quality Measure Rating - Filter by clinical outcomes rating (1-5)
• Staffing Rating - Filter by staffing level rating (1-5)
• Ownership Type - Filter by facility ownership (for-profit, non-profit, government)

Example input:

{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "state": "CA",
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "overallRating": "4",
  "ownershipType": "For profit - Corporation"
}

📊 Output

Each nursing home includes up to 47 data fields covering ratings, staffing, penalties, location, and facility details. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

🏥 Provider Name	🆔 CMS Certification Number	📍 City
🌍 State	📮 ZIP Code	📞 Phone Number
⭐ Overall Rating	🔍 Health Inspection Rating	📈 Quality Measure Rating
👥 Staffing Rating	💰 Total Fines Amount	⚖️ Total Penalties Count
🛏️ Certified Beds	🏢 Ownership Type	🔗 Provider URL
📋 Administrator Name	📧 Administrator Email	💼 Ownership Information
👨‍⚕️ Licensed Beds	🏨 Medicare Certified Beds	♿ Medicaid Certified Beds
🎯 Continuing Care Beds	🏃 Residents 90+ Days	👶 Residents <90 Days
👥 Total Resident Count	👩‍⚕️ RN Hours Per Resident	💊 Licensed Practical Nurse Hours
🛎️ CNA Hours Per Resident	👨‍⚕️ Physical Therapist Hours	🎯 Occupational Therapist Hours
💬 Speech Therapist Hours	🔬 Clinical Assessment Hours	📊 Deficiency Count
⚠️ Severe Deficiency Count	👮 Fire Safety Violation Count	🏥 Serious Bodily Injury Count

💎 Why Choose the CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper?

Feature	Our Actor	Similar Tools
Filter by 10+ criteria (state, city, rating, ownership)	✔️	❌
Access complete 47-field dataset per facility	✔️	Partial
No authentication or sign-up required	✔️	❌
Support all 14,700+ US nursing homes	✔️	❌
Export to CSV, Excel, and JSON	✔️	✔️
Collect up to 100 items per run	✔️	❌
Collect up to 1,000,000 items per run	✔️	❌
Real-time CMS Provider Data access	✔️	❌
Staffing hours and quality metrics included	✔️	Partial
Penalty and fine information	✔️	❌
Residential proxy support available	✔️	❌
Easy filtering by compliance metrics	✔️	❌

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your input
3. Run It: Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Now you can export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📊 Healthcare Researchers - Compare staffing levels and quality metrics across 500+ facilities in your region to publish benchmark studies and identify best practices
• 💼 Care Facility Consultants - Monitor compliance penalties for clients weekly to flag emerging violations and advise on regulatory improvements before state inspections
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Care Advocates - Track facility ratings by zip code to recommend top-rated nursing homes to families searching for safe, quality care in their area

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and collect your first 100 results for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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