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What changed — Nursing homes under CMS Special Focus Facility oversight: current SFFs, candidates, graduates and terminations, by CMS certification number

The change history of Nursing homes under CMS Special Focus Facility oversight: current SFFs, candidates, graduates and terminations, by CMS certification number: Which US nursing homes are in the CMS Special Focus Facility (SFF) programme, which are candidates for it, which have graduated and which have left Medicare and Medicaid altogether. Each record is one facility, identified by its six-digit CMS certification number (provider number), carrying the facility name, address, city, state, ZIP and phone exactly as CMS prints them, which of the four tables it appears in, the date of its most recent inspection, whether that inspection met the graduation criteria, and how many months it has been an SFF. Answers 'is this nursing home a special focus facility', 'which nursing homes in Ohio are on the SFF list', 'how long has this home been under enhanced oversight', 'which homes graduated from the SFF program', and 'which nursing homes were terminated from Medicare'. CMS publishes this as a single PDF that is overwritten every month, with no archive index, no per-facility page and no statement of what changed, so a month-stamped question — and people search month-stamped, see the autocomplete evidence in state/territories/nursing-home-special-focus-facilities.json — has no published answer at all.

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No changes yet since the initial snapshot of . This register is re-checked against its sources on a schedule; a date appears below only when records were added or their values changed, so a quiet stretch means the register itself was quiet, not that nobody looked.

We keep the current verified state of each record, not the value it replaced — so each entry says which records changed and what they now state, never what they said before. Machine subscribers: poll changes.xml (Atom) or changes.json instead of re-fetching the dataset.

— Initial snapshot — 1,927 records

The first verified snapshot: every record was new on this date. The full register is on the dataset page.

… and 1,907 more records on this date. The full current state of every record is in data.json.