Nursing homes that are certified by Medicare - Opens in a new window and Medicaid - Opens in a new window regularly report clinical information for each of their residents to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS assigns nursing homes a quality of resident care star rating based on their performance on 16 measures. These measures reflect, on average, how well nursing homes cares for their residents. Information is listed for 2 groups of residents:
- Short-stay residents - those who spent 100 days or less in a nursing home
- Long-stay residents - those who spent over 100 days in a nursing home
