Consumers who are considering
placing a loved one in a nursing home have important questions about nursing
home safety and quality. Fortunately, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
have created Nursing Home Compare, which is an online database that contains
quality data for all nursing homes certified under Medicare and Medicaid.
Nursing Home Compare provides a star-ratings system of nursing home characteristics
such as health inspections, staffing, quality measures, and overall quality.
Consumers can use Nursing Home Compare to make a side-by-side comparison of the
star ratings for up to three different nursing homes.
Map view showing star-ratings
for nursing homes in northern Kentucky (filtered by state), and rollover windows
for nursing home address and nursing home characteristics star-ratings
HealthLandscape created the Nursing Home Explorer to provide
a user-friendly spatial visualization tool for Nursing Home Compare data for nursing
homes in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Each nursing home is displayed as a
red, yellow, or green point on the map based on its overall quality star-rating,
allowing users to quickly compare the quality of neighboring nursing homes. When
a user moves their mouse over a point, the nursing home name, address, and the star-ratings
for the nursing home’s staffing, health inspections, quality measures, and
overall ratings are displayed in windows on the screen. Users are able to
filter the selection of nursing homes displayed on the map by ownership,
provider type, or state, and have the option to view the data displayed on the
map in a table format. In the Stats tab, users can examine the correlation
between nursing home characteristics and community demographic and health data
for the county in which the nursing home is located. The Nursing Home Explorer is a very useful tool for quickly comparing multiple nursing homes in
Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, and provides an important spatial visualization
component for Nursing Home Compare data.
Stats view showing correlation between overall
star-ratings for nursing homes and percent Age 65 & older below 100% of federal poverty level
at the county level (for the county in which the nursing home is located) in
Kentucky
To access the Nursing Home Compare
Explorer, see http://www.healthlandscape.org/NursingHomeExplorer/map.cfm
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For more information about Nursing Home Compare, see http://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/About/What-Is-NHC.html
