🏥 Nursing Home Compare Scraper

🚀 Export every Medicare-certified US nursing home in seconds.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 . 📊 50 fields per record . 15,000+ facilities . All 50 US states + DC + territories

Bulk-export the entire Medicare Nursing Home Compare dataset. Star ratings, inspection scores, staffing data, ownership, sprinkler coverage, abuse flags, all in one flat table sourced directly from data.cms.gov.

Filter by state, city, or facility name. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, or RSS.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Health-care analysts	Compare facilities, quality measures, ownership patterns.
Long-term-care researchers	Track inspection trends, staffing ratios.
Investors & operators	M&A targeting, chain analysis, market mapping.

📋 What the Medicare Nursing Home Compare Scraper does

• Pulls every available record from the public Medicare Nursing Home Compare source.
• Normalizes fields into a flat, analysis-ready table.
• Streams results to a dataset you can download as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or RSS.
• Runs on-demand or on a schedule.

💡 Why it matters: the public Medicare Nursing Home Compare interface is paginated and slow to scrape by hand. This actor gives you the whole dataset in minutes.

🎬 Full Demo

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⚙️ Input

Provide the filters you need. Leaving filters empty returns the whole catalog.

{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "state": "CA"
}

{ "maxItems": 100 }

⚠️ Good to Know: free users are capped at 10 records per run. Upgrade to scale up to 1,000,000 records.

📊 Output

Field	Description
🏥 title	Provider / facility name.
🔗 url	Medicare Care Compare detail URL.
🆔 id	CMS Certification Number (CCN).
📍 state	US state code.
🏙️ citytown	City / town.
✉️ zip_code	ZIP code.
☎️ telephone_number	Phone number.
🏢 ownership_type	Ownership category (for-profit, non-profit, government).
⭐ overall_rating	Overall Medicare star rating (1-5).
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601 timestamp of capture.
❌ error	Error message when a record cannot be parsed (else null).

Sample record:

{
  "title": "Redlands Healthcare Center",
  "url": "https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/details/nursing-home/055001",
  "id": "055001",
  "state": "CA",
  "citytown": "Redlands",
  "zip_code": "92373",
  "ownership_type": "For profit - Limited Liability company",
  "overall_rating": "3",
  "number_of_certified_beds": "78",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-25T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Always-fresh data, on demand.
• No login or API key required.
• CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, RSS exports.
• Pay only for what you use.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Speed	Cost	Maintenance
Manual copy-paste	Slow	Free	High
Custom script	Medium	Dev time	High
This Actor	Fast	Pay-per-use	Zero

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit.
2. Open the actor page and click Try for free.
3. Set your filters (or leave defaults).
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download results as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

💼 Business use cases

Market research

Map the competitive landscape in seconds.

Lead generation

Build a targeted prospect list from filtered records.

Content & SEO

Power data-driven articles, landing pages, and comparison tools.

Compliance & monitoring

Track changes to public records over time.

🔌 Automating Medicare Nursing Home Compare Scraper

Wire the actor into Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, or Google Drive via the Apify integrations panel.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Academic research

Reproducible datasets for peer-reviewed work.

Personal projects

Side projects, dashboards, hobby analyses.

Non-profit

Civic tech, transparency, open data.

Experimentation

Train ML models, benchmark prompts, test ideas.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is this legal? Yes. Only publicly available data is collected.

Do I need an account on Medicare Nursing Home Compare? No.

Do I need an API key? No.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes, via Apify Scheduler.

What output formats are supported? CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, RSS.

How fresh is the data? Live at the moment of each run.

Is there a free tier? Yes, 10 records per run on the free plan.

Can I filter by location? Yes, via the state/city inputs.

What if a record is missing fields? The actor leaves them null and never fabricates data.

Who do I contact for help? Open our contact form.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, AWS S3, Webhooks, REST API.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Medicare Nursing Home Compare. Only publicly available data is collected.