BH-AIRS™ — Facility Health Index
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Advanced Healthcare Management
Play It OutSIMULATED
CMS Star What-If ·  Powered by  Blue Hen

What would it take to move this facility's stars?

Drag any lever and the stars recalculate using CMS's own scoring tables — the same value→points tables and star cut points CMS publishes, verified below against this facility's published ratings. Left side: what you'd change. Right side: what CMS would do with it. Nothing you do here changes any real data — play freely.

▲ These actions could help the score

The three easiest wins, ranked by real CMS payoff per unit of effort — click “show me” to see one play out below.

▼ These could hurt the score

Where is most fragile — the smallest slips that cost real points or stars.

Health Inspection — the anchor

The overall star STARTS here. CMS weights the last three surveys — the newest counts half. 's current weighted score is (lower is better; the 5★ bar is ≤). Ask: what if the next survey comes in at…
Next survey — deficiency points
no change

Staffing

Only moves the overall at the extremes: 5★ adds a star, 1★ subtracts one. sits at of 380 points — 5★ needs .

Quality — long-stay residents

Long-stay measure points sum to the long-stay block (max 1,150). Together with short-stay it sets the QM star — 5★ adds a star to the overall.

Quality — short-stay & rehab

Six short-stay measures, rescaled to the same 1,150-point block per CMS's rules.

The stars, recalculated

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Simulated
Overall = Health Inspection star, +1 if Staffing is 5★ (−1 if 1★), +1 if Quality is 5★ (−1 if 1★). A 1★ inspection caps how far the others can lift it.
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What you changed

  • Nothing yet — drag a lever.

One-click plays

Read this before quoting a simulated star: Simulations score against today's cut points — CMS regrades on a curve every quarter (our data refreshes monthly). Quality measures average over four quarters, so real-world gains phase in over ~a year; this shows the destination. Readmissions, ER visits and hospitalizations come from claims — only real operational change moves them. Simulated stars are planning tools, never quotable ratings.