Nursing Home Deficiency Citations (CMS Health Inspections)
We turn CMS's Health Deficiencies dataset into clean, filtered JSON: every health deficiency citation published for a US nursing home, across the last three inspection cycles. One record is a single citation: which facility, which survey, which F-tag, CMS's plain-English definition of that tag, the scope and severity, and whether it was corrected.
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- Size
- 418,344 citations (three inspection cycles)
- Refresh
- Monthly
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Who uses this
Elder-law and nursing home abuse attorneys
Screen a defendant facility or build its citation history, filtering to immediate-jeopardy findings by state.
Long-term care liability underwriters and reinsurers
Pull a CCN or provider-name pattern to price a facility or a chain against its full three-cycle citation record.
Request data for your team →Nursing home brokers, lenders and REIT analysts
Run diligence on a facility before a sale or refinance.
Request data for your team →Senior placement services and care advisors
Vet homes for a family, using the linked Care Compare page on every record.
Researchers, journalists and state agencies
Study enforcement patterns, tag frequency, or how quickly deficiencies get corrected.
Request data for your team →Sample records
Real records from the source, shown with a subset of the fields. Ask us which fields and delivery options are available.
Download privacy-safe CSV sample ↓| ccn | providerName | surveyDate | deficiencyTag | severity | isImmediateJeopardy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 015114 | SHADESCREST HEALTH CARE CENTER | 2024-02-09 | F-0657 | No actual harm with potential for minimal harm | false |
| 015124 | CLAY COUNTY NURSING HOME | 2022-03-16 | F-0582 | No actual harm with potential for minimal harm | false |
| 015009 | BURNS NURSING HOME, INC. | 2023-03-02 | F-0851 | No actual harm with potential for minimal harm | false |
Sample rows taken from the CMS Provider Data Catalog on 2026-08-23, shown in the actor's output shape.
Fields
The most used fields in each record. Contact us to confirm the available fields and delivery format.
- ccn
- CMS Certification Number identifying the facility
- providerName
- Facility name
- state
- Two-letter state postal code
- surveyDate
- Date of the survey that produced this citation
- deficiencyTag
- CMS F-tag for the citation, e.g. F-0656
- deficiencyDescription
- CMS's plain-English definition of that tag
- severity
- Decoded severity level from CMS's scope/severity grid
- isImmediateJeopardy
- True if the scope/severity code is J, K or L
How it works
1
Request this dataset
Tell us the geography, record count, and filters you need. We will confirm source availability and delivery options.
2
Filter to what you need
- •states: two-letter postal codes, exact
- •ccns: CMS Certification Numbers, exact
- •providerNameContains: case-insensitive substring on facility name
- •surveyDateFrom / surveyDateTo: ISO date range on the survey date
- •scopeSeverityCodes: letters A to L, exact (J, K, L is immediate jeopardy)
- •tagPrefix / tagNumbers: filter to specific F-tag numbers
- •inspectionCycles: 1, 2 or 3, where 1 is the most recent cycle
- •surveyKind: any, standard, complaint or infectionControl
- •maxResults: 1 to 50000, your cost cap
- •includeRaw: attach the original CMS columns under their raw names
3
Agree on delivery
We will confirm the available file formats and delivery options with you before any order.
Pricing
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This dataset is not yet available for self-service on Apify. Contact us to discuss current availability, delivery, and a custom quote.
Request a custom quote →Source, refresh, and licence
- Source
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Health Deficiencies, CMS Provider Data Catalog
- Size
- 418,344 citations, counted 2026-08-23
- Refresh
- Monthly
- Licence
- US Government work, public domain (https://www.usa.gov/government-works), per the parent CMS catalog licence; the Provider Data Catalog sub-catalog publishes no per-dataset licence field of its own
- Attribution
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Questions buyers ask
How do I look up nursing home inspection results and violations by state?
This dataset is not yet available for self-service on Apify. Contact us to confirm which published source records, filters, and delivery options are currently available.
What do nursing home scope and severity codes mean?
CMS grades every deficiency with a letter from A to L: severity rises from A-C (no actual harm, potential for minimal harm) through D-F (potential for more than minimal harm), G-I (actual harm) to J-L (immediate jeopardy), and within each band the scope is Isolated, Pattern or Widespread. Every record carries the letter plus the decoded severity and scope text and an isImmediateJeopardy boolean.
Is this the CMS-2567 statement of deficiencies?
No. CMS does not publish the surveyor's facility-specific narrative in this dataset; what you get is the tag cited and CMS's standard definition of that tag. Request the 2567 itself from the state survey agency.
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We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The actor reads the public dataset linked above and adds no data of its own.