The Care File: Nursing-home records without the bureaucratic fog

Field notes

The directory groups facilities by state and exposes counts, average overall ratings, and abuse-flag counts before a visitor opens an individual record. Its explanatory layer distinguishes citation letters A–L, identifies G–I as actual resident harm and J–L as immediate jeopardy, and explains that staffing figures come from submitted payroll records and are case-mix adjusted. The site says its source data is refreshed monthly and that citation translations supplement, rather than replace, CMS records.