Nursing Home Ledger Reads the Inspection File

Field notes

The ledger organizes CMS records across 14,690 active facilities, with fields for survey dates, deficiency descriptions, complaint flags, correction records, revisits, penalties, staffing, chain affiliation, and ownership disclosures. Its release cover sheet reports 619,806 citation rows, 248,794 ownership disclosures, and 308 published tag files. The site also lists recurring deficiency categories, including infection control records spanning 11,947 facilities, while cautioning that database evidence cannot replace a current record check or an in-person visit.