- inspection
- Health inspections feed one of the three rating domains, alongside staffing and quality measures
- regulator
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — the federal agency behind nursing-home quality rating
- reports
- Nursing Home Care Compare (Medicare.gov) — an overall one-to-five-star rating per nursing home, plus domain ratings
US
What Retirement Home Beacon covers about US.
From our comparison tables
- mechanism
- Medicare explicitly does not pay for long-term (custodial) care — it is distinct from the skilled nursing facility care Medicare does cover for a limited period; Medicaid or private long-term care insurance are the named alternatives
- recovery
- Not established by the cited source
- threshold
- Not established by the cited source — Medicaid eligibility is state-specific and not detailed on this page