CMS
Daily Nurse Staffing →RN, LPN, and CNA hours per resident-day across Medicare-certified nursing facilities.
Care Compare Nursing Homes
Five-star quality ratings, staffing scores, health inspection scores for Medicare-certified nursing homes. Source:
FHIR Location · Sample record
What a record looks like in the API response.
{
"resourceType": "Location",
"id": "loc-015009",
"_source": "cms-care-compare-nh",
"_methodology": "care-compare-nh/v1",
"name": "Burns Nursing Home, Inc.",
"extension": [{ "url": "overallRating", "valueInteger": 4 }]
}Every record carries _source, _methodology, a snapshot date, and a confidence tier. All fourteen provenance fields survive export and API delivery.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FONTEUM_KEY" \ "https://api.fonteum.com/fhir/r4/Location?_source=nursing-homes" \ | jq '._source, ._methodology, .meta.tag'
Fields in this record
What each field in the Location record means.
Every field below is taken from the live FHIR Location record above. Provenance fields (_source, _methodology, and the snapshot date) travel with each record through export and API delivery; identity fields key the record across federal datasets; data fields carry the measured values.
| Field | Type | Role |
|---|---|---|
resourceType | string | Identity |
id | string | Identity |
_source | string | Provenance |
_methodology | string | Provenance |
name | string | Data |
extension | array | Data |
Dataset facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Agency | |
| Category | Nursing facilities |
| Records | |
| Temporal coverage | 2024–2026 |
| Refresh cadence | Quarterly |
| Freshness SLA | Within 48h of quarterly CMS release |
| Last synced | 2026-04-01Updated 2026-04-01 |
| FHIR resource | Location |
| Methodology | care-compare-nh/v1 |
| Measured | Five-star overall, staffing, and health inspection ratings per Medicare-certified nursing home |
| Upstream source | data.cms.gov → |
Get access
How to reach this dataset.
API access is operator-approved during the pilot. Reviewed within one business day. No charge during the pilot period.
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