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Nursing Home Ratings by State

Browse 14,710 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. According to CMS Nursing Home Care Compare and the National Provider Identifier Registry, covering more than 14,000 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes with over 1 million certified beds and Five-Star Quality Ratings issued since December 2008 you can search and compare here, every figure traces to its source in our methodology.

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Texas 1177
133,557 beds · Avg rating: 2.8/5
★★★☆☆
California 1162
114,992 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Ohio 922
81,578 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Florida 694
84,457 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Illinois 669
85,382 beds · Avg rating: 2.5/5
★★★☆☆
Pennsylvania 658
83,452 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
New York 596
111,620 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Indiana 507
48,983 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Missouri 487
50,029 beds · Avg rating: 2.5/5
★★★☆☆
Michigan 423
44,034 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
North Carolina 419
43,901 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Iowa 391
25,403 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Georgia 356
39,633 beds · Avg rating: 2.7/5
★★★☆☆
New Jersey 348
50,940 beds · Avg rating: 3.3/5
★★★☆☆
Massachusetts 341
40,961 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Minnesota 339
24,213 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Wisconsin 323
24,831 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Tennessee 304
34,614 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Kansas 297
18,212 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Virginia 289
32,623 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Oklahoma 284
27,504 beds · Avg rating: 2.7/5
★★★☆☆
Kentucky 269
25,430 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Louisiana 266
32,253 beds · Avg rating: 2.4/5
★★☆☆☆
Alabama 224
26,504 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Arkansas 221
24,129 beds · Avg rating: 3.3/5
★★★☆☆
Maryland 220
27,475 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Colorado 210
19,734 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Mississippi 202
17,473 beds · Avg rating: 2.6/5
★★★☆☆
Washington 194
18,838 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Connecticut 191
22,761 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
South Carolina 187
19,684 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Nebraska 179
13,718 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Arizona 140
16,023 beds · Avg rating: 3.5/5
★★★☆☆
Oregon 128
10,619 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
West Virginia 123
10,711 beds · Avg rating: 2.8/5
★★★☆☆
South Dakota 97
5,917 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Utah 97
8,381 beds · Avg rating: 3.3/5
★★★☆☆
Idaho 80
6,098 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Maine 78
5,828 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
New Hampshire 74
7,371 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
North Dakota 73
4,994 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Rhode Island 73
8,231 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
New Mexico 68
6,916 beds · Avg rating: 2.8/5
★★★☆☆
Nevada 66
7,235 beds · Avg rating: 3.1/5
★★★☆☆
Montana 61
5,075 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Delaware 44
4,709 beds · Avg rating: 3.3/5
★★★☆☆
Hawaii 42
4,248 beds · Avg rating: 3.6/5
★★★★☆
Wyoming 36
2,938 beds · Avg rating: 3.0/5
★★★☆☆
Vermont 34
2,994 beds · Avg rating: 2.9/5
★★★☆☆
Alaska 20
815 beds · Avg rating: 3.5/5
★★★☆☆
District of Columbia 17
2,485 beds · Avg rating: 3.5/5
★★★☆☆
Puerto Rico 9
299 beds · Avg rating: 3.2/5
★★★☆☆
Guam 1
40 beds · Avg rating: 1.0/5
★☆☆☆☆

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 PlainDoctor editorial team.