About CareScope
CareScope helps families evaluate nursing homes using data published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Every rating and metric on the site comes directly from CMS, the federal agency that regulates and inspects these facilities.
The database covers 14,700+ certified facilities nationwide, rated across quality measures, staffing levels, health inspections, and deficiency citation history. The goal is to give families an honest, unfiltered picture before making one of the hardest decisions they'll face.
What the data covers
Data sources
All data is sourced from CMS and updated when CMS publishes new monthly or quarterly releases.
Five-star quality ratings across health inspections, staffing levels, and quality measures for every Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing home.
Facility details including bed count, ownership type, resident census, and Medicare/Medicaid certification status.
Full inspection history with individual deficiency citations, severity levels, and scope classifications going back multiple survey cycles.
Ownership and management organization records, enabling tracking of facilities under common corporate control.
Free, transparent, no industry sponsorship
CareScope carries no advertising and accepts no funding from nursing home operators, staffing agencies, or senior care industry groups. The ratings shown are CMS's own assessments. We present them as-is, with no adjustments to favor any facility or ownership group.