Nursing Home Inspect
Record Type
DataSet
Source
ProPublica
Source URL
Description
ProPublica used three different data sets: a listing of all Medicare-certified nursing homes, a database with inspection violations and penalties, and a database containing the deficiency report narratives. ProPublica merged spreadsheets containing findings from routine inspections and those identified during complaint visits and kept only health violations, not fire safety violations. ProPublica used each home’s unique identification code to match penalties imposed to the dates of their corresponding inspections to display that data together for each home.
MEDLINE Search Strategy
Keywords
Health Facility Environment; Nursing Homes; Quality of Health Care
Purpose
Nursing Home Inspect allows users to easily compare the nursing homes in each state in a variety of areas: the number of deficiencies cited by regulators in the past three inspection cycles (roughly three years); the number of serious deficiencies per home (that is, deficiencies in which patients were put at immediate jeopardy of harm); the amount of fines imposed; and how often the government has suspended payments to the home for new patients, another type of penalty.
Record Originator
InfoPac
UI
2539
Date Revised
Jan. 8, 2018, 10:56 a.m.