{"id":"us-nursing-home-ratings","title":"CMS Nursing Home Overall Ratings by State (United States)","description":"Average CMS Care Compare overall star rating (1–5) for Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes, aggregated by US state, from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Lets you compare nursing-home quality and facility counts across states.","url":"https://geraclinic.com/data/us-nursing-home-ratings","coverage":"United States — Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes","spatialCoverage":"United States","temporalCoverage":"2026","rowCount":53,"rowUnit":"states / territories","provenance":{"source":"CMS Care Compare — Nursing homes including rehab services (Provider Information)","sourceUrl":"https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/4pq5-n9py","publisher":"U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)","licence":"U.S. Government Works / Public Domain","licenceUrl":"https://www.usa.gov/government-works","attribution":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Care Compare, 'Nursing homes including rehab services - Provider Information' dataset (4pq5-n9py), file NH_ProviderInfo_Jun2026.csv, downloaded 27 June 2026 from https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/4pq5-n9py (CMS metastore 'modified' date 2026-06-01). US federal government work - public domain.","asOf":"2026","modified":"2026-06-01"},"methodology":"Facility-level CMS Care Compare overall star ratings are averaged within each US state to produce the state mean overall rating, and facilities are counted per state. Inputs are the published CMS provider-information file; no facilities are excluded or weighted.","keyFigures":[{"label":"Certified facilities","value":"14,570"},{"label":"National avg overall rating","value":"3.01 / 5"},{"label":"States & territories","value":"53"},{"label":"Reference year","value":"2026"}],"columns":[{"name":"state","description":"US state or territory"},{"name":"facilities","description":"Number of certified nursing homes in the state"},{"name":"avgOverallRating","description":"Mean CMS Care Compare overall star rating (1–5)"}],"sampleRows":[{"state":"Texas","facilities":1165,"avgOverallRating":2.71},{"state":"California","facilities":1153,"avgOverallRating":3.17},{"state":"Ohio","facilities":911,"avgOverallRating":3.22},{"state":"Florida","facilities":691,"avgOverallRating":3.28},{"state":"Illinois","facilities":663,"avgOverallRating":2.56},{"state":"Pennsylvania","facilities":653,"avgOverallRating":3.01}],"notice":"sampleRows is a verbatim sample, not the full snapshot. Open data re-published by GeraClinic; cite the original publisher above."}