Medicare assigns star ratings to nursing homes. Learn how to use these ratings when making care decisions.

After waiting more than nine months, skilled nursing providers are getting their first look at updated quality measures that are likely contributing to lower star ratings sector-wide.

The Medicare nursing home rating system can offer useful information about the quality of a given facility. Learn how it works, what the ratings mean, and how to use them.

A Scripps News analysis found hundreds of nursing homes continue to maintain or display high ratings despite also being found to have had a serious incident at their facility in the last three years.

Despite tracking detailed quality statistics on its nursing homes for years, the Department of Veterans Affairs has concealed these measures from the public — leaving veterans without critical ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday dropped a pair of surprise memos that will have an immediate effect on one-fifth of all nursing homes’ ratings and give consumers more ...

In its update in April to Nursing Home Compare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave its lowest star rating for staffing — one star on its five-star scale — to 1,638 homes. Most ...

Of the 11 nursing homes inspected and rated by Medicare located in the Twin Tiers, only two received “above average” ratings. five were rated “below average”, one received one star out of ...

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 ...

Here are five things to know: 1. To compile the list, S. News assessed more than 15,000 nursing homes nationwide using data from CMS’ Nursing Home Compare and ranked each facility on a scale of ...

Here are the worst-rated nursing homes in South Carolina for 2025, according to federal rankings. Several were cited for abuse.