Design For Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System: Technical Users Guide Revised August 1, 2016
On August 1, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released this document providing a comprehensive description of the design for the Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System. The rating system features an Overall Quality Rating of one to five stars based on facility performance for three types of measures, each of which has its own five-star rating: health inspections; staffing; and measures based on minimum data set and claims-based quality measures . . .
