Checking a Facility

Inspection reports, cited deficiencies, staffing data, and star ratings: the public record on a nursing home or agency, read before the tour.

Checking a Facility September 14, 2026 Nursing Home Staffing Data: How to Check It Before a Tour Care Compare publishes one quarterly average per home. The payroll file underneath it holds all 90 days, and one five-star home fell 40 percent on weekends. 14 min read
Checking a Facility August 22, 2026 Nursing Home Five Star Rating: What It Is Made Of Two Texas homes, both rated three stars: one had zero deficiencies and 95% nurse turnover. How CMS builds that number, and what it leaves out. 12 min read
Checking a Facility August 21, 2026 CMS F Tag Scope and Severity: Reading Form 2567 A D and a G look alike on an inspection report and mean entirely different things. What the F-number, the SS= letter, and the right column tell you. 16 min read

About this section

Yasmin Delacroix writes The Care Binder about the documents that arrive when an older parent moves — admission packets, care-level reassessment letters, survey reports full of F-tags, Medicare notices with deadlines printed halfway down the second page. She is not a lawyer, a nurse, or a financial planner, and no page here says where anyone should live. Each guide quotes the document itself, names the regulation or contract clause it comes from, and marks the date a deadline starts running.

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Every guide cites the agency, statute, or document it was checked against, and carries the date it was checked. Rules change — if something here is out of date, tell us and it gets corrected.