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Check any nursing home against Medicare's own data.

Star ratings hide a lot. Enter a ZIP and we pull Medicare.gov's published quality data for nearby nursing homes and translate it into plain English (“cited for medication errors,” not an F-tag number), so you can see what the ratings actually mean before you ever tour.

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Ratings, translated

What a 2-star health inspection actually means for daily life, in sentences, not code numbers.

Staffing, the real signal

Nurse hours per resident per day, side by side with the state average, one of the strongest predictors of quality.

Deficiencies in plain English

"Cited for medication errors", not F-tag numbers. Every citation explained in human terms.

Red flags surfaced

Abuse citations and major penalties get an unmissable banner, the only red you'll ever see on this site.

Honest scope: Medicare's dataset covers nursing homes comprehensively. Assisted living is regulated state by state with no unified federal data, so for assisted living we'll say that plainly and give you our facility tour checklist instead, which surfaces what ratings can't.

Not sure a facility is even the right question yet? Start with the free assessment. It tells you what level of care fits first.

Data: Medicare.gov Care Compare via the CMS Provider Data Catalog (data.cms.gov), keyless public data. We translate the public record into plain English; we never rate facilities ourselves or invent claims about any specific facility. Ratings and figures are Medicare's own.

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