ProPublica Updates Nursing Home Inspect Database

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP
Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare

“ProPublica has updated “Nursing Home Inspect,” our database that helps you find problems that inspectors identified in more than 15,000 U.S. nursing homes, to make it easier to search government reports and browse serious issues. We’ve added new data, a redesigned user interface and advanced search features.

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We have expanded the database’s search capabilities, adding advanced search features that allow users to search reports in multiple states or territories, filter by type of inspection report, focus on inspections within a date range, and look specifically at reports with certain kinds of issues, also called “deficiencies.” These filters will allow journalists and others to quickly identify problematic homes in their searches, and will make it easier for curious researchers to ask advanced questions of the data.”

The above notification can be viewed here.

Here’s a sample of what you’ll find when you access Nursing Home Inspect:

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