# Care Facility Ratings Scraper (CMS) (`scrapemint/care-facility-ratings-scraper`) Actor

Medicare Care Compare quality ratings for US care facilities: nursing homes, hospitals and home health agencies by name, state or city, with overall star rating, health-inspection, staffing and quality ratings, deficiencies, fines and ownership. No API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapemint/care-facility-ratings-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ken M](https://apify.com/scrapemint) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 facility rows

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Care Facility Ratings Scraper (CMS)

Medicare's official quality ratings for US care facilities - nursing homes, hospitals and home health agencies - as structured data. The star ratings and inspection records behind Medicare's Care Compare tool, searchable by name, state or city in bulk. No API key, no login, no browser.

### What you get

One row per facility:

- name, CMS certification number, full address, city, state, ZIP, county
- **overall star rating** (1 to 5)
- for **nursing homes**: health-inspection rating, staffing rating, quality-measure rating, certified beds, average residents per day, total fines in dollars, ownership
- for **hospitals**: overall rating, hospital type, emergency services, ownership
- for **home health agencies**: quality-of-patient-care star rating, ownership

```json
{
    "facilityType": "nursing_homes",
    "state": "CA",
    "minRating": "4"
}
```

### Ways to search

- **facilityType** - nursing homes (fullest ratings), hospitals, or home health agencies
- **facilityName** - name contains (partial, case-insensitive)
- **state / city** - sweep an area
- **minRating** - only facilities at or above a star rating

### Who uses this

- **Families and elder-care advisors**: compare nursing homes and agencies by quality, not marketing.
- **Health systems and payers**: benchmark facilities and competitors across a market.
- **Senior-living operators and investors**: market research and acquisition screening by rating and ownership.
- **Elder-law attorneys and journalists**: staffing, deficiency and fine records as evidence and data.

Pairs with our Healthcare Provider Leads (the provider directory) and Doctor Payments Scraper for a fuller healthcare picture.

### Pricing

A small fee per facility row. Searches that match nothing are free note rows, and the first 2 rows of every run are free.

### Notes

- Source: CMS Care Compare / provider-data, official Medicare data, refreshed by CMS. Each row links to Medicare's Care Compare site.
- A rating reflects CMS's most recent published data; some facilities (especially newer home health agencies) carry no rating yet and appear with a null rating.
- Ratings and deficiencies are regulatory history, not a statement about current care on any given day.

# Actor input Schema

## `facilityType` (type: `string`):

Which kind of Medicare-certified facility to look up. Nursing homes carry the fullest ratings (overall, health inspection, staffing, quality).

## `facilityName` (type: `string`):

Filter to facilities whose name contains this text. Partial, case-insensitive. Leave empty to sweep by state.

## `state` (type: `string`):

Two-letter state code ("CA", "TX"). Use alone to pull a whole state, or with a name/city.

## `city` (type: `string`):

Filter to one city (exact, case-insensitive). Optional.

## `minRating` (type: `string`):

Only facilities with at least this overall star rating (1 to 5). Leave as Any for all.

## `maxRows` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many facilities.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "facilityType": "nursing_homes",
  "state": "CA",
  "minRating": "0",
  "maxRows": 50
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "state": "CA",
    "maxRows": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapemint/care-facility-ratings-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "state": "CA",
    "maxRows": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapemint/care-facility-ratings-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "state": "CA",
  "maxRows": 50
}' |
apify call scrapemint/care-facility-ratings-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrapemint/care-facility-ratings-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/dTmPy1SnCFjd1IgMw/builds/04lZvI8RPQa8duPMo/openapi.json