US News Finds 18% of Nursing Homes Rated High-Performing
U.S. News & World Report's Nov. 10 ranking evaluated 14,669 nursing homes using publicly available CMS data, finding that 1,018 facilities, or 18%, were rated high performing in both short-term rehabilitation and long-term care. Another 1,615 facilities were high performing in one category but not both, 62% rated as expected, and the bottom 20% rated as evaluated. The rankings used quality metrics spanning staffing levels, antipsychotic drug use, health deficiencies, hospitalizations and ED visits. Top-performing facilities had 19% fewer ED visits, 21% fewer hospital readmissions, and 19% more total staffing per resident per day than the national average. California had the most high-performing homes (293), followed by Florida (191) and Pennsylvania (170), while several states had as few as five.