After waiting more than nine months, skilled nursing providers are getting their first look at updated and unfrozen quality measures that are likely contributing to lower star ratings sector-wide.

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 ...

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 ...

The government's 'star' ratings for nursing homes are misleading, new research finds How reliable are guides to nursing homes, really? Right now there are about 1.4 million Americans living in nearly ...

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 ...

A Scripps News analysis found hundreds of nursing homes continue to maintain or display high ratings despite also being found to have had a serious incident at their facility in the last three years.