Two nursing homes on the same street can be worlds apart.

Choosing care for a parent is hard enough without decoding star ratings. Enter a ZIP and get the homes near you ranked and compared, with the safe ones surfaced and the ones to look at twice flagged.

CMS 5-star ratings, in plain English Staffing and abuse flags, not just the headline Ranked by distance from your ZIP

The rating tells one story. The neighbors tell another.

Medicare rates every certified nursing home one to five stars, but families rarely see them side by side, and the differences are stark. In one Chicago neighborhood, a five-star home and a one-star home with a recent abuse citation sit less than a mile apart. Knowing which is which, before a stressful tour, is the whole job.

A shortlist you can trust, and the questions to ask.

Medicare's Care Compare has the data, but it's built to look up one home at a time. This turns it into a single report you can read at the kitchen table with the family.

Every home near you, ranked

The Medicare-certified nursing homes closest to your ZIP, sorted by distance, side by side.

All four CMS ratings

Overall, health-inspection, staffing, and quality, not just the headline star that hides the rest.

Staffing hours per resident

The single best day-to-day predictor of care, in numbers, so a thinly-staffed 4-star can't hide.

Abuse and fine flags

Any home with a recent CMS abuse citation or a fine is flagged, so nothing surprises you later.

What the ratings really mean

Which ratings are objective inspections and which are partly self-reported, so you read them right.

What to ask on a visit

The specific questions about staffing, turnover, and nights and weekends that a rating can't answer.

Honest about the data

A guide, not a guarantee.

We'd rather you trust this because it's straight with you. CMS star ratings are genuinely useful, but they're a starting point, not a verdict: the health-inspection rating (from unannounced on-site surveys) is the most objective, staffing hours predict day-to-day care better than the headline star, and the quality-measure rating leans partly on what the home reports about itself. Ratings also lag real changes and update quarterly. The report tells you all of that, so you weight the numbers correctly and then trust your own visit.

A ZIP is all it takes.

Step 1

Enter your ZIP

Or the ZIP where your parent lives, or where you're looking.

Step 2

We pull Medicare's data

Every certified home nearby, with its current CMS ratings and inspection record.

Step 3

You get the PDF

Ranked, compared, flagged, and explained, in seconds.

Two nursing homes on the same street can be worlds apart.

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