Tools designed to help families researching a nursing home are obscure and often criticized by industry experts over their reliability and accuracy. The Care Compare website maintained by the ...

Only about 10% of nursing homes receive an overall 5-star rating under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Five-Star Quality Rating System.

DON turnover plays an outsize role in nursing home quality and should be better emphasized in government quality ratings, ...

Nursing home ratings are one of the many sources of information available to families looking for the right destination for loved ones. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, recently ...

In 2025, ratings were determined by nurse staffing, patient outcomes and whether steps known to be effective in avoiding harm and improving health were built into nursing home routines.

The number of NY nursing homes with lowest fed rating spiked 40% since 2019, as state, federal measures aimed at improving care struggled.

Staffing instability can influence a nursing home’s care quality star rating, though it is not one of the measurements used by CMS to calculate the metric, according to a study published Dec. 16 ...

A new law to improve transparency in nursing home care has taken effect. The law requires nursing homes to prominently display their most recent star ratings for health inspections, staffing and ...

In the middle of August 2025, residents of Advena Living of Clay Center were evacuated by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) due to quality of living issues. According to ...

A NY nursing home will pay $12 million to resolve allegations that its owners defrauded Medicaid and understaffed to the point of neglect.

The number of NY nursing homes with lowest fed rating spiked 40% since 2019, as state, federal measures aimed at improving care struggled.