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CMS Nursing Home Overall Ratings by State (United States)

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.

53 states / territories · U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) · U.S. Government Works / Public Domain

Key figures

14,570
Certified facilities
3.01 / 5
National avg overall rating
53
States & territories
2026
Reference year

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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.

How this snapshot is prepared & verified

  1. Source. Retrieved from CMS Care Compare — Nursing homes including rehab services (Provider Information) (U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)), the official publisher, under the U.S. Government Works / Public Domain. Reference period: 2026.
  2. Verbatim capture. Every figure shown here is copied from, or computed directly from, that snapshot — nothing is estimated, rounded away or hand-entered.
  3. Verification. Column values are checked against the published source before release, and the licence and attribution are preserved exactly as issued.
  4. Re-publication. The snapshot is exposed as a citable page plus JSON and CSV downloads so it stays independently verifiable and quotable.

The JSON summary and CSV export contain a verbatim sample of the snapshot with full provenance. The complete dataset is available from the original source linked above.

Sample rows

A verbatim sample from the verified snapshot. Full data is in the JSON summary and on the source page.

statefacilitiesavgOverallRating
Texas1,1652.71
California1,1533.17
Ohio9113.22
Florida6913.28
Illinois6632.56
Pennsylvania6533.01

Provenance

Source:
CMS Care Compare — Nursing homes including rehab services (Provider Information)
Publisher:
U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Coverage:
United States — Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes
As of:
2026
Licence:
U.S. Government Works / Public Domain

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. Re-published by GeraClinic at https://geraclinic.com/data/us-nursing-home-ratings.

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