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About Nursing Home Violations
- 14,690
- Nursing homes coveredall homes with Medicare or Medicaid certification
- 418,947
- Health citationsover the last three inspection cycles, complaint visits included
- October 8, 2026
- The CMS release usedupdated every month
Who Publishes This Site?
Fairmont Records Inc., 1201 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 2000, Atlanta, GA 30361, United States, publishes Nursing Home Violations.
Federal nursing home inspection files become pages a family can read here. They show the citations each home received, how serious each one was, the fines, and who owns it.
Where the Records Come From
All figures come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Care Compare files. Those files cover the 14,690 nursing homes that hold Medicare or Medicaid certification. Monthly updates refresh the files, and the site gets rebuilt from each release.
These files are public: CMS nursing home provider data.
Definitions of the Terms
- Citation
- During a visit, an inspector found the home had broken this rule. Several citations can come out of a single visit.
- Harm
- G, H and I severity letters: a resident was in fact harmed.
- Immediate danger
- J, K and L severity letters: the failure led to serious injury or death, or was likely to. They count toward the harm or danger total.
- Special Focus Facility
- CMS inspects such a home more often because of serious problems over a long period. It has no overall star rating on Medicare.
- Special Focus candidate
- For that program, CMS has this home on its shortlist. Its record is similar, but it has not been chosen.
- Abuse icon
- CMS gives a home this mark when it was cited for abuse that hurt a resident within the past year. The mark also applies when abuse could have harmed a resident in each of the last two years.
- Stars
- Based on inspections, staffing, and quality measures, Medicare assigns a rating from 1 to 5. Not every home receives a rating.
The Way We Count
CMS gives each citation a severity letter, from A to L. Where a resident suffered harm, the letters are G, H and I; J, K and L show immediate danger of death or serious injury. Every citation lettered G to L goes into the "harm or danger" counts.
For every home, citations include the last three standard inspections plus complaint inspections, all in one CMS file; the oldest date back to March 2017. The CMS penalties file is the source for fines; it keeps about three years, with the oldest from September 2023.
When CMS names a home a Special Focus Facility or candidate, or gives it the abuse icon, the home is "flagged". Select a home's name to open its full record.
Only the CMS files are used to build the records. What a home's record shows is not influenced by the advertising law firm.
| Result for residents | One or a fewFew | A patternPattern | Widespread |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immediate danger | J | K | L |
| Harm | G | H | I |
| No harm, risk of more than minimal harm | D | E | F |
| No harm, risk of minimal harm | A | B | C |
Corrections
When a figure here differs from Medicare Care Compare for that home and release, email office@nursinghomeviolations.org with the page and the home's name. After checking it against the CMS file, we fix our error. Only CMS, or the state that did the inspection, can change a finding inspectors made.
The Phone Number and the Message Form
Legal advice is not provided by Nursing Home Violations. A call to the number on this site, or a message sent through it, by itself does not make anyone your lawyer. Usually through a written agreement, a lawyer accepts a case by agreeing to represent you.
When you call 1-833-892-8135 or send the message form, your call or message goes to a law firm that pays to advertise on this site. This site is a lead generator: it is paid for that advertising, not for any case result.
Each call is recorded, so the person you speak with has an accurate record of the conversation.
- What it costs
- The fee is a share of any recovery; case costs are handled on their own. The fee is usually a contingency fee: part of whatever money is recovered, often about a third, and no fee is owed if there is no recovery. Costs for records, experts, and the like are separate; the written agreement spells out who pays them when the case is lost.
About Medical Information
No part of this site is medical advice. These records report what federal inspectors found and do not diagnose any person. When someone is in danger right now, call 911.
Contact
Send an email to office@nursinghomeviolations.org.
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