PBJ Central helps skilled nursing teams learn PBJ deeply, comply with confidence, and turn their staffing data into a real strategy — not just a quarterly obligation.
Exclusive training, policy resources, and a peer community built for SNF teams.
PBJ Central brings together everything your team needs to get genuinely good at Payroll-Based Journal — from beginner fundamentals to advanced Five Star strategy. Whether you're new to PBJ or want to go deeper, you'll find expert courses, an always-current policy library, and a community of SNF peers who've been doing this since the program launched.
Fundamentals of Payroll-Based Journal
Everything you need to know about how PBJ is set up and managed — the right foundation for your whole team.
Your staffing data has a story. Make sure it's the right one.
Every quarter, SNFs submit staffing hours to CMS — and those numbers directly determine your Five Star staffing rating, your survey risk, and your compliance standing. Most facilities submit and hope. PBJ Central's upcoming PBJ Index tools help you find data errors, see the real impact of your staffing hours, and fix issues before they're locked in.
Find errors fast
Surface data issues across your staffing hours before the quarterly deadline — no more last-minute scrambles.
See your Five Star impact
Understand exactly how your staffing data maps to your current and projected Five Star staffing rating.
Submit with confidence
Know your submission is complete, accurate, and ready — every quarter, not just the ones that feel risky.
Stop treating PBJ as a quarterly obligation. Start treating it as an operational asset.
Every quarter your team spends hours compiling, cleaning, and submitting the same staffing data. PBJ Central helps you do it faster — and get more from it. The data you already collect contains real insight about your staffing patterns, your compliance risk, and your Five Star trajectory. We help you see it.
Simplify the submission.
Cut the time your team spends on quarterly reporting. Find errors faster, fix them once, and build a repeatable process that gets better every quarter.
Elevate the strategy.
Use your PBJ data year-round — not just at deadline. Understand your staffing patterns, anticipate compliance risk, and make better workforce decisions.
The PBJ Central team has trained and supported skilled nursing facilities with Payroll-Based Journal reporting and Five Star staffing since the program launched in 2016. We've helped thousands of SNFs prepare, analyze, and submit PBJ reports — and we've seen firsthand what separates teams that struggle every quarter from teams that use their data with confidence.
