About
About CareSentinel
CareSentinel is an independent service that compiles the public CMS Care Compare record for U.S. nursing homes — the federal survey, deficiency, penalty, and ownership record, as published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — and presents it without alteration or judgment.
What CareSentinel is
A faithful copy of the public federal record, organized so a family can actually read it. Every facility page restates what CMS has published — the inspection citations, the penalties, the ownership file — dated to the exact federal data release it came from. CareSentinel computes no score of its own: there is no CareSentinel rating, ranking formula, or risk model anywhere on this site, and that is by design (see our methodology). What CMS published is what you see.
Data & methodology
Every figure traces to a public CMS Care Compare source, loads as a single dated snapshot, and carries a visible “Record as of” month on the page. The full account — which CMS datasets we ingest, CMS’s own definitions for every term we display, how snapshots are versioned, and how to reproduce any figure yourself on medicare.gov — lives at /methodology.
Legal-advertising compliance
CareSentinel is a legal-advertising service structured for ABA Model Rule 5.4. It is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. It does not evaluate, recommend, or vouch for any attorney’s qualifications; participating attorneys independently evaluate every prospective matter and keep full professional independence. CareSentinel’s compensation is a flat advertising fee — never a share of case revenue, never a contingency split, never a referral fee.
Who operates this, and the standard we hold
CareSentinel is operated by Nodal Logics LLC, a Wyoming company. The standard we hold ourselves to is fidelity: we add no characterization of our own to the federal record — no spin toward alarm, and no softening either. When we fall short of that standard — if a page misstates what the CMS file for its snapshot month actually says — we want to know: records@caregiverhelpnow.com, and the correction protocol on /methodology says exactly how corrections are handled.
If you’re here about a loved one
Plainly: CareSentinel is an independent service that lets you read a nursing home’s public federal record and, if you choose, put an inquiry on file to be connected with a participating attorney. If you’re matched with a participating attorney, CareSentinel is paid an advertising fee. We are independent of CMS, Medicare, HHS, and every other government agency; we are not a nursing home, and we are not a government complaint line. Everything you read here is the public CMS record — the same record anyone can verify on medicare.gov.
Contact
- General & methodology questions
- records@caregiverhelpnow.com
- Data corrections & facility disputes
- records@caregiverhelpnow.com — protocol at /methodology
- Law-firm partnership
- Partner program
Independence & affiliations
CareSentinel is independent of every government agency whose data it compiles, and of every facility it lists. Figures come from public federal data; the federal record can understate what actually occurred, and inspection findings are point-in-time survey results — not a determination that any specific resident was harmed. The full disclosures appear in the footer of every page.