About For The Patient
ForThePatient.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publishing independent quality scores for all 48,000+ Medicare-certified healthcare facilities in the United States — hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis centers, home health agencies, hospices, inpatient rehab, and long-term care.
Our mission is to empower patients with transparent, data-driven information so they can choose where to receive care.
How we're different
Zero industry funding. No facility revenue, no pharma donations, ever.
Compulsory data only. We use government-mandated reporting from CMS — never self-reported quality claims.
Complete methodological transparency. Every formula is public.
Exponential recency decay. Our scores surface current quality, not historical averages.
Our scoring
Each facility receives a composite score from 1.0 to 10.0, built from 4–5 weighted components specific to that facility type. Every component is derived from public CMS datasets and runs through the same percentile-ranking machinery.