Guides to the CMS record
Last reviewed:
Each guide explains one part of the record that CMS keeps for a nursing home. The guides use the CMS documents that the data sources page lists. The guides explain the record and give no advice.
- How to read the inspection record of a nursing homeThe parts of a citation, the three types of inspection, survey cycles, correction dates.
- What an F-tag is, and how scope and severity workThe number of the requirement, the letter from A to L, and the points that CMS gives to each letter.
- What the CMS star ratings measureHow CMS calculates the four ratings, and what is not in them.
- What happens after a nursing home is citedCorrections, revisits, disputes, penalties and the Special Focus Facility program.