ProPublica: “Nursing Home Inspect” makes it fast and easy to search thousands of recent government inspection reports, find information about specific nursing homes and discover new serious issues found by inspectors. Below are some tips to help you make the most of our database. First, a little background. Nursing homes receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding are subject to inspections to determine whether they are meeting requirements related to medical care, resident rights and safety. The facilities are inspected both routinely and when the government receives a complaint about a home. A nursing home’s failure to meet any of these requirements is called a “deficiency” and is documented in an inspection report. These inspection reports and other nursing home data are compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs a site called Nursing Home Care Compare. Unlike the agency’s site, however, “Nursing Home Inspect” offers an advanced search function that allows you to search across all the reports at once. Also unlike CMS, our app allows searches by keywords, date ranges, states or territories, deficiency seriousness, report types and deficiency categories. So, for example, you can limit your search to finding any nursing home in Louisiana or Texas where inspectors documented serious deficiencies involving choking. Our app also provides summaries of the reports on each nursing home’s page to make them easier to digest. As of today, the underlying database covers nearly 400,000 deficiencies from over 90,000 reports at over 15,000 homes. It is updated monthly to include new data and deficiencies. In addition to allowing you to search reports, the database also provides other information about nursing homes, including fines, whether the home is for-profit or nonprofit, staffing and capacity information, and COVID-19 vaccination information…”