California nursing homes with union staff allegedly receive lower federal quality ratings than non-unionized facilities, ...

Medicare’s nursing home rating system is designed to help consumers compare nursing homes, identify quality differences, and spot areas of concern. While Medicare usually doesn’t cover long-term ...

Medicare’s nursing home ratings are one tool people can use to evaluate potential long-term care facilities. While they offer insight into staff levels and performance on health and quality ...

Staffing instability can influence a nursing home’s care quality star rating, though it is not one of the measurements used by CMS to calculate the metric, according to a study published Dec. 16 in ...

Quality ratings are useful when they capture important and durable aspects of overall performance. They are less useful (and can be misleading) when they are excessively volatile, particularly if ...

A new law to improve transparency in nursing home care has taken effect. The law requires nursing homes to prominently display their most recent star ratings for health inspections, staffing and ...