Care Compare is the public listing of skilled nursing facilities and their Five Star ratings.

The Five Star Technical Users’ Guide describes the methods CMS uses to compute the overall Five Star rating for as well as the Five Star ratings for Staffing, Quality and Inspections.

CMS communicates major policy changes and updates through memorandum and letters from the Quality, Safey & Oversight (QSO) Group sent to State Survey Agencies.

The PBJ-specific QSO memos since 2015 outline the increased enforcement of staffing requirements and use PBJ data.

CMS provides PBJ guides, spreadsheets,  instructions, and online software tools to help skilled nursing providers and their vendors comply with PBJ reporting requirements.

The PBJ Library provides a resource hub of important, current links to these critical PBJ tools from CMS.

Since 2018, academic and media analysis of publicly available PBJ data has made headlines and influenced policy makers.

The PBJ Library includes our compilation of all known PBJ research studies, as well as the associated media coverage of these research studies and publications.