New York State's Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI) annually ranks Medicaid-certified nursing facilities into performance quintiles based on quality, compliance, and efficiency measures. The data includes Facility Name, Quintile, Points, Measure Full Name, and geographic details like County and NYS Senate Districts. Published by health.data.ny.gov, the dataset was last updated on December 30, 2025.
Use Cases
- Rank facility performance by Quintile and Points to identify top and bottom performers across regions.
- Analyze geographic disparities in care quality using County, Region, and NYS Senate Districts columns.
- Investigate specific quality metrics by linking Measure Full Name with a facility's Numeric or Character Value.
- Track facility identity changes over time by comparing Current Facility Name with historical Facility Name.
Strengths
- Includes multiple performance dimensions: Quality, Compliance, and Efficiency, as indicated by the Points and Measure ID Number columns.
- Provides granular geographic context with columns for County, City, Region, and NYS Senate Districts.
- Offers longitudinal potential with a Measurement Year column, suggesting annual updates.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- health.data.ny.gov
- Collection Method
- Annual quality and performance evaluation project based on the previous calendar year's data, incorporating health inspection survey deficiencies.
- Time Range
- Beginning 2012
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-12-30 19:07:06; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- New York State, USA