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Nursing Home Ratings by State

Browse 14,693 Medicare-certified nursing homes with CMS Five-Star Quality Ratings, inspection data, and staffing information, sourced directly from CMS Care Compare, without proprietary ratings or editorial scores. This page uses 14,693 Medicare-certified nursing-home records from CMS Care Compare, with NPPES context where available. Every figure is traceable in the methodology.

14,693
Nursing Homes
53
States & Territories
107
Avg. Beds
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Texas 1177
133,403 beds · Avg rating: 2.6/5
★★★☆☆
California 1165
114,990 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Ohio 922
81,107 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Florida 694
84,517 beds · Avg rating: 3.3/5
★★★☆☆
Illinois 667
85,157 beds · Avg rating: 2.6/5
★★★☆☆
Pennsylvania 656
83,064 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
New York 594
111,493 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Indiana 507
48,888 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Missouri 487
50,043 beds · Avg rating: 2.5/5
★★★☆☆
Michigan 422
44,005 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
North Carolina 419
43,850 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Iowa 388
25,198 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Georgia 356
39,494 beds · Avg rating: 2.7/5
★★★☆☆
New Jersey 348
51,022 beds · Avg rating: 3.3/5
★★★☆☆
Massachusetts 341
40,961 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Minnesota 338
24,064 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Wisconsin 323
24,758 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Tennessee 303
34,613 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Kansas 296
18,094 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Virginia 289
32,648 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Oklahoma 283
27,475 beds · Avg rating: 2.7/5
★★★☆☆
Kentucky 267
25,352 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Louisiana 266
32,316 beds · Avg rating: 2.5/5
★★★☆☆
Alabama 224
26,504 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Arkansas 221
24,167 beds · Avg rating: 3.5/5
★★★☆☆
Maryland 221
27,307 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Colorado 210
19,757 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Mississippi 202
17,496 beds · Avg rating: 2.8/5
★★★☆☆
Washington 193
18,781 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Connecticut 191
22,696 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
South Carolina 187
19,594 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Nebraska 180
13,711 beds · Avg rating: 2.8/5
★★★☆☆
Arizona 140
15,984 beds · Avg rating: 3.4/5
★★★☆☆
Oregon 128
10,600 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
West Virginia 123
10,717 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Utah 97
8,379 beds · Avg rating: 3.3/5
★★★☆☆
South Dakota 96
5,848 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Idaho 80
6,099 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Maine 78
5,830 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
New Hampshire 73
7,326 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
North Dakota 72
4,909 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Rhode Island 72
8,190 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
New Mexico 68
6,919 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Nevada 66
7,235 beds · Avg rating: 3.3/5
★★★☆☆
Montana 60
4,997 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Delaware 44
4,717 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Hawaii 43
4,248 beds · Avg rating: 3.7/5
★★★★☆
Wyoming 36
2,938 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Vermont 33
2,951 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Alaska 20
815 beds · Avg rating: 3.5/5
★★★☆☆
District of Columbia 17
2,485 beds · Avg rating: 3.4/5
★★★☆☆
Puerto Rico 9
299 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Guam 1
40 beds · Avg rating: 2.0/5
★★☆☆☆

About CMS Five-Star Ratings

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rates every Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing home on a scale of 1 to 5 stars across multiple dimensions:

  • Overall Rating - Combined score based on all three areas below
  • Health Inspection - Based on on-site inspections over the last 3 years
  • Quality Measures - Clinical outcomes (falls, infections, pressure ulcers, etc.)
  • Staffing - Nurse and aide staffing hours relative to residents

Data is updated monthly from the CMS Provider Information dataset. A 5-star rating means the facility performs much above average; 1 star means much below average.

Methodology

Every facility on this hub is identified by its six-digit CMS Certification Number (CCN) and pulled from the CMS Five-Star Quality Rating System, Nursing Home Provider Information (Feb 2026 release). The Overall star is a CMS-calculated composite of three components, Health Inspection, Quality Measures, and Staffing, each published on the same 1–5 scale. Staffing hours come from the payroll-based-journal (PBJ) feed that CMS audits against facility payroll records; deficiency counts are drawn from Rating Cycle 1 (most recent completed standard survey) of the CMS-2567 inspection record.

CMS refreshes the dataset monthly and suppresses any metric that would re-identify individual residents. PlainDoctor publishes these figures exactly as CMS releases them, no custom weighting, no proprietary rankings. See the full methodology for sourcing, pipeline, and limitations.

Compiled from official public sources by the editorial process.