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    • Payroll Based Journal Daily Nurse Staffing

    Metadata Updated: October 7, 2025

    The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing datasets provide information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis. The View Data link above includes the hours staff are paid to work each day, for each facility, aggregated by staff reporting category.  Examples of reporting categories include Director of Nursing, Administrative Registered Nurses, Registered Nursing, Administrative Licensed Practice Nurses, Licensed Practice Nurses, Certified Nurse Aides, Certified Medication Aides, and Nurse Aides in Training. There are also other non-nurse staff categories provided in the data such as Respiratory Therapist, Occupational Therapist, and Social Worker. The datasets also include a facility’s daily census calculated using the Minimum Data Set (MDS) submission.

    Access & Use Information

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

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    http://data.cms.gov/resources/payroll-based-journal-methodology-0

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date October 7, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date October 7, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P3M

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date October 7, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date October 7, 2025
    Publisher Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2025-10-07
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Medicare
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P3M
    Bureau Code 009:38
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    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 http://data.cms.gov/resources/payroll-based-journal-daily-nurse-staffing-data-dictionary
    Harvest Object Id 5d26cf9f-07ab-4286-937a-c4bce71cce59
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL http://data.cms.gov/quality-of-care/payroll-based-journal-daily-nurse-staffing
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Program Code 009:000
    Related Documents http://data.cms.gov/resources/payroll-based-journal-methodology-0
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4f8b5bf561ab9b2b55f86002586e5e82f7e23f9baf99e03fcb07ce68aa75b70a
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2017-01-01/2025-03-31

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