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    • Facility-Level Minimum Data Set Frequency

    Metadata Updated: January 29, 2026

    The Facility-Level Minimum Data Set (MDS) Frequency dataset provides information for active nursing home residents on topics, such as race/ethnicity, age, or marital status; discharge dispositions; hearing, speech, and vision; cognitive patterns; mood; functional abilities and goals; bladder and bowel; active diagnoses; health conditions; swallowing/nutritional status; oral/dental status; skin conditions; medications; special treatments, procedures, and programs; restraints and alarms; and participation in assessment and goal setting.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://data.cms.gov/resources/facility-level-minimum-data-set-frequency-methodology

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date February 3, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 29, 2026
    Data Update Frequency R/P3M

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 3, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 29, 2026
    Publisher Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cms.gov/data-api/v1/dataset/d086edc0-4953-4fb9-a663-b35526371add/data-viewer
    Data First Published 2025-12-09
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-28
    Category Medicare
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P3M
    Bureau Code 009:38
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://data.cms.gov/resources/facility-level-minimum-data-set-frequency-data-dictionary
    Harvest Object Id 1cdcfc0c-b153-437d-a677-8168d3bf4a5a
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://data.cms.gov/quality-of-care/facility-level-minimum-data-set-frequency
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Program Code 009:000
    Related Documents https://data.cms.gov/resources/facility-level-minimum-data-set-frequency-methodology
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a67949c8dfb297ae3fb1135ae92fb004dbf542ccca0fe83366af3cf3686133a3
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2023-10-01/2025-12-31

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