U.S. News & World Report recently released its 2022-2023 nursing home ratings, which revealed major differences in its assessments compared with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) star rating system. The media company found that only a small portion of the nation’s 15,000 nursing homes were high performing in short- or long-term rehabilitation, and only a few hundred were high performing in both.

The data team is making their figures available to journalists who want to conduct their own analysis of facilities in their state or community.

While CMS’s most recent ratings show 4,261 short-term and 5,080 long-term facilities received five stars, the U.S. News analysis found only 1,658 homes were high performing in short-term rehabilitation, 1,103 homes were high performing in long-term care and 335 were high performing in both. In one example, 25 homes that CMS called “five star,” U.S. News rated as only one out of five. And more than 3,600 nursing homes received four or five stars from CMS, but only one, two or three out of five from the U.S. News.