About Nursing Home Match
Nursing Home Match is an independent, non-commercial directory that helps families find and compare nursing homes using official quality ratings. We cover nursing homes across the United States (using the CMS Five-Star Quality Rating System) and Australia (where these facilities are called “residential aged care homes”, using Star Ratings from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing).
United States data
US ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Care Compare “Provider Information” dataset, which covers every Medicare- or Medicaid-certified nursing home. It is published as public-domain government data and refreshed monthly. The overall 1-to-5 star rating combines three sub-ratings: Health Inspections, Staffing, and Quality Measures.
Australia data
Australian ratings come from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, published via GEN Aged Care Data (AIHW) as the Star Ratings Quarterly Data Extract, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). We have modified the data for presentation — including filtering, sorting, aggregation, ranking, and visual display — but rating values themselves are unchanged from the source extract.
Independence
Nursing Home Match is an independent directory. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operating in partnership with the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Australian Government, the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, AIHW, or any nursing-home provider. We do not use government logos. References to government data are made solely to attribute the source of the underlying datasets.
How the ratings work
Both systems produce an overall 1-to-5 star rating built from sub-categories:
- Health inspections / Compliance — regulatory inspection history and deficiencies.
- Staffing — nurse and care-staff hours per resident per day.
- Quality measures — clinical indicators (pressure injuries, falls, hospitalisations).
- Resident experience — survey-based, AU only.
Important disclaimer
Ratings shown reflect the most recent extract we have imported. For the very latest information, always check Medicare.gov Care Compare (US) or My Aged Care (AU) before making care decisions.