Care Considered › Data updates
Each CMS release we load, and each change to the site's method, in date order. Newest first.
New Methodology page documenting every CMS file used, what we compute, and how corrections work. All sitemap URLs submitted to Bing via IndexNow. Publisher and editor now identified on every page.
Provider pages are now submitted to Google only when they carry a differentiating record: home health agencies with both a CMS quality star and a patient-survey star; hospices with a family-survey (CAHPS) star; nursing homes with a special-focus status, abuse icon or Medicare payment denial; rehab facilities with at least one CMS better/worse-than-national measure. All other pages remain online and reachable from their state hubs.
Duplicate CCN records now canonicalize to one survivor; thin state hubs excluded from the sitemap; nearby-provider links added to every provider page; sitemap split into per-collection files.
Nursing Home Compare and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility files from the August 2026 CMS Provider Data Catalog release. Nursing Home Accountability Report and Inpatient Rehabilitation Report recomputed.
Home Health Compare and Hospice Compare files from the July 2026 release: 12,460 agencies and 6,669 hospices. Home Health Quality Report and Hospice Care Report recomputed.
Upcoming: CMS refreshes Care Compare quarterly (next home health / hospice release expected October 2026; nursing home and rehab November 2026). See Methodology for how each file is used.
