Nursing Home Database is answering right now. Last checked 48 min ago. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 31 Mar 2026.
MCP server for US nursing facility search and ownership lookup (NursingHomeDatabase).
Uptime history
47 days of history · worst day 96%
47 days agonow
98.1%
Uptime 24h
53 of 54 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
657 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 31 Mar 2026
What changed 22
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 7 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
11 Sep
5 tool descriptions were rewritten
get_facility, get_facility_ownership, get_owner and 2 more
11 Sep
2 tools appeared
compare_facilities, get_facility_changes
11 Sep
a tool changed the parameters it asks for
search_facilities
11 Sep
a tool changed version
7 Sep
6 tool descriptions were rewritten
get_data_freshness, get_facility, get_facility_ownership and 3 more
7 Sep
5 tools changed the parameters they ask for
get_facility, get_facility_ownership, get_owner and 2 more
7 Sep
a tool changed version
7 Sep
a tool appeared
list_file_dates
Nursing Home Database does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 98.9% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 48 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://mcp.nursinghomedatabase.com/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"url": "https://mcp.nursinghomedatabase.com/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://mcp.nursinghomedatabase.com/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"url": "https://mcp.nursinghomedatabase.com/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"url": "https://mcp.nursinghomedatabase.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 9
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
facility
get_facility
Get one certified skilled nursing facility by CMS CCN (provnum) or web slug. Returns the same decision fields as search_facilities: ratings, nurse hours (HPRD), nurse/RN turnover, weighted inspection score, beds, fines, abuse/SFF flags, and maps deep-links. Use data_as_of as the CMS vintage; do not invent ratings or hours that are missing. Defaults to the latest monthly snapshot; pass filedate from list_file_dates for a prior month.
get_facility_changes
Monitor one skilled nursing facility across two CMS monthly files. Defaults to latest vs the prior snapshot. Returns field-level diffs for stars, nurse hours, turnover, inspection score, abuse icon, fines, and occupancy. Care Compare shows this month only — rerun after the next file.
get_facility_ownership
Get CMS ownership records for one facility — who owns or manages the building. Defaults to the latest CMS monthly snapshot; pass filedate from list_file_dates to query a prior month.
compare
compare_facilities
Compare up to 25 certified skilled nursing facilities by CMS CCN or web slug. Returns the same decision fields as search_facilities (ratings, nurse hours, turnover, inspection score, beds, fines, maps) as a table. Prefer this over looping get_facility against the 60 requests/minute limit.
data
get_data_freshness
Get latest source dataset dates and row counts. For prior months, call list_file_dates and pass filedate to other tools.
facilities
search_facilities
Find certified US skilled nursing facilities near an address or in a city. Filter by star rating, abuse flag, or Special Focus status. Returns ratings, nurse hours (HPRD), nurse/RN turnover, weighted inspection score, beds, fines, straight-line distance_miles, and maps deep-links so you can shortlist more than three homes. distance_miles is crow-flies, not drive time — use maps.google_dir / a mapping service for minutes.
file
list_file_dates
List CMS monthly snapshot dates available in the database (newest first), plus the current filedate and known unpublished months. Use a returned date as filedate on other tools to retrieve a prior month instead of the latest data.
owner
get_owner
Get an owner portfolio by web_owner slug, including facility names, locations, and overall stars. Defaults to the latest CMS monthly snapshot; pass filedate from list_file_dates to query a prior month.
owners
search_owners
Search nursing-home owners by name. Defaults to the latest CMS monthly snapshot; pass filedate from list_file_dates to query a prior month.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://mcp.nursinghomedatabase.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 643 ms | 48 min ago |
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Nursing Home Database — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Nursing Home Database do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_facilities, get_data_freshness, get_facility, get_facility_changes, get_facility_ownership, get_owner and 3 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Nursing Home Database working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 53 of 54 checks got a reply (98.1%), average response time 657 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Nursing Home Database?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Nursing Home Database need an API key?
No. Nursing Home Database completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Nursing Home Database?
It answers our handshake in 657 ms on average, which is faster than 18% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Nursing Home Database open source?
We cannot say either way: 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.