Terms of Use

Welcome to HealthRankings.com (“HealthRankings,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). These Terms of Use explain the rules and limitations that apply when you use this website. By accessing or using HealthRankings, you agree to these Terms.

If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use this website.

Informational Use Only

HealthRankings is an informational website. We organize public healthcare data to make it easier to compare facilities and providers. We are not a healthcare provider, insurer, nursing home, referral agency, government agency, legal advisor, or financial advisor.

Nothing on HealthRankings should be treated as medical advice, legal advice, financial advice, or a recommendation to choose or avoid any specific facility.

No Facility Endorsements or Recommendations

HealthRankings does not recommend, endorse, certify, inspect, or rank facilities based on personal judgment. Nursing home comparisons and ordering are based on public CMS data and visible sorting rules, not paid placement or a proprietary endorsement.

Users should verify current information directly with the facility, CMS Care Compare, state agencies, and other appropriate sources before making care decisions.

Public Data and Limitations

HealthRankings uses public healthcare datasets, including public CMS nursing home data. This data may include facility names, addresses, CMS ratings, staffing information, inspection data, ownership, certified beds, and related public information.

Important limitations of this data include:

• Public data may be delayed, incomplete, inaccurate, or changed after publication.
• Facility conditions may change between reporting periods.
• Some fields may be unavailable for certain facilities.
• HealthRankings may transform, summarize, group, sort, or reformat source data for readability.
• HealthRankings does not independently inspect facilities or verify current conditions.

For more information on where our data comes from, see our Data Sources page.

No Guarantee of Accuracy

We work to present information clearly and carefully, but we do not guarantee that any information on the site is complete, accurate, current, error-free, or suitable for a particular purpose.

Use HealthRankings as a starting point for research, not as the sole basis for a care, medical, legal, or financial decision.

User Responsibilities

You are responsible for how you use information on HealthRankings.

• Verify current information before making decisions.
• Consult qualified professionals when appropriate.
• Do not submit sensitive personal information through general forms.
• Do not misuse the site, interfere with its operation, or attempt unauthorized access.

Contact Forms and User Submissions

If you submit a message, correction request, facility feedback, or other content through HealthRankings, you are responsible for the information you provide.

Please do not submit medical records, Social Security numbers, insurance information, or other sensitive personal health information through general contact forms.

By submitting information, you give HealthRankings permission to review, use, and respond to the submission for site operation, correction review, support, or related purposes.

Corrections and Data Feedback

We may review correction requests or data feedback, but we are not obligated to make changes unless we determine a correction is appropriate. In many cases, users should first verify the underlying source data from CMS or another official source.

Acceptable Use

When using this site, users may not:

• Use the site for unlawful purposes
• Attempt to disrupt, overload, scrape abusively, or interfere with the site
• Attempt to access systems or data without authorization
• Submit false, misleading, harmful, spammy, or malicious content
• Use the site to harass, defame, or harm others
• Copy large portions of the site in a way that violates applicable law or harms site operation

Intellectual Property

The HealthRankings website design, organization, text, summaries, formatting, graphics, code, and branding are owned by HealthRankings or its licensors, except for public-domain or third-party source data.

Public government data remains subject to the terms and rights that apply to the original source.

Users may link to HealthRankings pages and may use brief excerpts with attribution, but may not copy or republish substantial portions of the site in a misleading or harmful way.

Third-Party Links

HealthRankings links to third-party websites, including government websites such as CMS and Medicare.gov. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party websites, their content, their privacy practices, or their availability.

Advertising, Affiliates, and Sponsored Content

HealthRankings may display advertising, include affiliate links, or offer sponsored placements in the future. If we do, paid relationships will be disclosed where appropriate.

Paid relationships will not change public CMS-derived ratings shown on HealthRankings.

Availability and Changes to the Site

We may update, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the website at any time. We may also update pages, remove outdated information, add new datasets, or change how information is presented.

Disclaimers

The site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, HealthRankings disclaims warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, HealthRankings and its owners, operators, partners, service providers, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or similar damages arising from or related to your use of the website or reliance on information on the website.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these limitations may not apply to you.

Indemnification

You agree to be responsible for any claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses arising from your misuse of the site, violation of these Terms, or violation of applicable law.

Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and, where applicable, the laws of the state in which HealthRankings is operated, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page will reflect the latest version. Continued use of the site after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

Contact Us

For questions about these Terms, please contact us through our contact page.