Health and Disability

By Charles Ornstein and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, Updated Aug. 14, 2012

Use this tool to search over 20,000 nursing home inspection reports, most completed since January 2011 and encompassing nearly 118,000 deficiencies. | Related Story: Search Nursing Home Inspection Reports With Our New Interactive Tool.

Search Nursing Home Deficiency Reports

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Search Nursing Home Inspection Reports With Our New Interactive Tool

by Charles Ornstein and Lena Groeger, ProPublica

We’ve made it easy to search nearly 118,000 deficiencies found during government inspections at 14,565 nursing homes nationwide.

Tipsheet: How to Use Nursing Home Inspect

by Charles Ornstein

A collection of tips, sample searches, and details about how to get the best results from your inspection report searches.

Deficiencies by Severity

Click on a bar to narrow your search by severity.

(What do the severity ratings mean?)

3,829

B

3,654

C

66,899

D

30,827

E

6,730

F

3,880

G

317

H

13

I

773

J

680

K

177

L

Severity Scores

least seriousmost serious

ABCDEFGHIJKL

Serious Deficiencies by State

"K" and "L" deficiencies by state.

Click on a bar to see all deficiences in that state.

183

TX

78

NY

59

OK

45

KY

45

SC

43

AR

38

LA

37

IL

35

TN

30

FL

27

CA

26

IN

19

GA

19

WV

15

WI

14

MS

14

WA

14

MI

13

AL

13

OH

11

NJ

8

MN

8

CO

7

NM

6

DC

6

UT

4

VI

4

NC

4

PA

4

MT

4

NH

3

AZ

3

AK

3

PR

2

KS

2

SD

2

NE

2

MO

2

CT

2

MD

1

IA

1

VA

1

ME

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