About Care Considered
Choosing care for an aging parent is one of the hardest, highest-stakes decisions a family makes — usually in a hurry, often in crisis, and surrounded by sites trying to sell them something. Care Considered exists to give families the same official quality data the government collects, organized so it's actually usable, with no sales pitch and no sponsored rankings.
What we do
We bring together every Medicare-certified home health agency, hospice, nursing home, and inpatient rehabilitation facility in the country — with their official CMS quality ratings, patient and family-caregiver survey scores, staffing levels, inspection and penalty records, and service areas — in one place you can search by ZIP or browse by state. We also publish original research computed from that data, designed to be cited.
Where our data comes from
Every rating, score, and statistic comes from the CMS Provider Data Catalog (data.cms.gov) — the same public files behind Medicare's own Care Compare tool — refreshed quarterly, with population figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. We compute our rankings and reports directly from those files and state the methodology and data vintage on every page. We do not collect our own reviews, and we never adjust a provider's numbers.
How we stay independent
No provider pays to be listed, ranked, or rated on Care Considered. Every Medicare-certified provider appears automatically, and rankings come solely from official CMS measures. If we ever carry advertising, it will be clearly labeled and will never influence listings, ratings, or research. That separation is the entire point of the site.
Who writes it
Vince Czaplyski, founder and editor.
Vince Czaplyski is the founder of Own the Answer Inc. and the editor of Care Considered. His professional background includes a longtime career as a captain for a major international airline and later as a captain for various private aviation clients. He has published over 200 aviation articles for such major publications as AOPA Pilot, Airways and Air & Space/Smithsonian.
He created Care Considered because choosing care for an aging parent is one of the hardest decisions a family makes, usually under time pressure. The official quality data on home health agencies, hospices, nursing homes and rehab facilities is published by Medicare, but it is scattered across many files and nearly impossible for a family to access and interpret when they actually need it.
Care Considered presents this information in a user-friendly way that will, we hope, help families make better-informed care decisions.
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How every figure is sourced and what we compute ourselves is set out on the Methodology page; every CMS load is logged on Data updates. Corrections go through the contact form.
Who publishes it
Care Considered is published by Own the Answer Inc., an independent publisher. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by CMS, Medicare, or any care provider. See our Terms of use for the full disclosures.
More from the publisher
Own the Answer Inc. publishes other free, data-first reference directories built the same way — public records, plain language, no pay-to-rank: Career Training Path (accredited trade and career schools, with federal outcome data) and GetFundedUSA (small-business grants, SBA lenders, and free business counseling by state).
Not advice
Care Considered is information for a decision — not the decision. Nothing here is medical, legal, or financial advice, and no site can tell you which provider is right for your family. Use the data, ask the questions in our FAQ, talk to the providers and your doctor, and verify current details on Medicare Care Compare before arranging care.
Questions, corrections, or press inquiries? Reach us through the contact details in the footer — we're glad to help reporters and researchers with custom data cuts.
