The Newsweek Best Nursing Home award was based on a combination of reputation survey scores and clinical data provided by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Reputation Survey: Newsweek invited about 46,000 medical experts (registered nurses, nursing home managers and administrators, licensed practical nurses / licensed vocational nurses, nursing assistants, therapists and physicians) to an online survey. Additionally, experts from all over the US could participate in the survey of the Best Nursing Homes by State on newsweek.com. The distribution of participations was 42% managers/administrators, 31% registered nurses, 19% LPN, LVN and nursing assistants, 8% therapists and physicians).

CMS Clinical Data: Newsweek utilized monthly performance data for each nursing home provided by The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). On the CMS Nursing Home Compare website (medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare) an overall ranking of one to five stars is assigned based on a nursing home’s performance on three separate measures: health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. All three domains have their own star ratings from one to five stars. Newsweek modified the CMS approach by redistributing the assignment of the underlying measures to a 10-point score instead of 5 stars to allow for a finer evaluation of a nursing home performance. In addition, an awarded nursing home must have achieved a minimum of 5 out of a maximum of 10 points in all three measures, so that only nursing homes that show at least a satisfactory level of performance in all sub-areas are awarded. 

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