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Care quality
Provider performance, patient outcomes, and accreditation — how care is delivered and where it slips.
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- How fast do nursing homes fix what surveyors cite? 28.5 days for the harmful ones
Across 415,849 corrected CMS nursing home health deficiencies, the mean time from survey to documented correction is 32 days — but the harm-level citations, Severity G and above, close faster, in 28.5 days. The more severe the finding, the quicker the fix. Texas and Illinois correct in about two weeks; Washington, D.C. takes nine.
2026-06-04 · 14 min - Why 14% of skilled nursing facilities had a quality drop in Q1
Across 5,148 SNFs in Q1 2026, the composite quality score declined by an average of 0.06 points — but the decline was not evenly distributed. Facilities that changed ownership in the prior twelve months accounted for a disproportionate share of the slide.
2026-05-12 · 8 min
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