April and July 2011 Changes to Nursing Home Compare

The purpose of this memorandum is to describe changes that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will make to the Nursing Home Compare website http://www.medicare.gov/ on April 23, 2011 and on July 21, 2011. CMS is soliciting comments about these website changes. CMS will be evaluating the website in a systematic way, including seeking comments from stakeholders and visitors to the site. Based on these evaluations, CMS will continually making revisions to the website in the future.