Adviniacare Newburyport
A nursing home in Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950
180 Low Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950. (978) 465-5361.
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The short answer
Record last released by CMS on Oct 28, 2026.
- 3of 5 CMS’s overall rating
- 4 health citations at the latest inspection cycle Massachusetts average: 6.4
- 3.30 nurse hours per resident per day Massachusetts average: 3.94
- 5 fines in the last three years (needs attention)
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean8
- Star ratings
- CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
- Scope and severity (A to L)
- CMS grades each nursing home deficiency with a letter. A to C: no actual harm, with potential for minimal harm. D to F: no actual harm, but potential for more. G to I: actual harm. J to L: immediate jeopardy. Within each band, the letter rises as more residents were affected or could be: one or a few, a pattern, or widespread. Source: CMS, nursing home scope and severity grid (State Operations Manual, chapter 7).
- Nurse staffing hours
- The hours registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and nurse aides worked, per resident per day, from the payroll records each home sends CMS. Source: CMS, Payroll-Based Journal.
- Fines and payment denials
- A fine (civil money penalty) is money CMS makes a nursing home pay when it falls short of federal rules. A payment denial means Medicare and Medicaid stop paying for new admissions until the home meets the rules again. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.430 and 488.417.
- Immediate jeopardy
- CMS’s most serious finding: the place’s failure to meet a rule caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment or death to someone in its care. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 489.3.
- Capacity
- The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
4 health citations at the latest inspection cycle
The Massachusetts average is 6.4.
Last standard inspection Sep 18, 2025.
Most serious in three years: immediate jeopardy to health or safety (K), at a standard inspection on Nov 7, 2023
CMS, Provider Information, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
When those citations happened
17 citations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2025. Most serious: actual harm (G). The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
All 67 citations in the last three years
Grouped by inspection, newest first. Each carries CMS grades each nursing home deficiency with a letter. A to C: no actual harm, with potential for minimal harm. D to F: no actual harm, but potential for more. G to I: actual harm. J to L: immediate jeopardy. Within each band, the letter rises as more residents were affected or could be: one or a few, a pattern, or widespread. Source: CMS, nursing home scope and severity grid (State Operations Manual, chapter 7)., from A, the least serious, to L, the most. 4 came from complaint inspections.
CMS, Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
Sep 18, 2025: standard inspection4 citations
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Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
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Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident’s health.
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Provide for the safe, appropriate administration of IV fluids for a resident when needed.
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Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Oct 10, 2024: standard inspection9 citations
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Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
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Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
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Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident’s needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
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Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
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Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
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Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
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Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
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Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
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Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Jan 31, 2024: complaint inspection4 citations
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Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident’s needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
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Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
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Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
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Provide timely, approved x-ray services, or have an agreement with an approved provider to obtain them.
Nov 7, 2023: standard inspection50 citations
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Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
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Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
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Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently.
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Establish a governing body that is legally responsible for establishing and implementing policies for managing and operating the facility and appoints a properly licensed administrator responsible for managing the facility.
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Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program for all new and existing staff members.
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Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
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Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
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Honor the resident’s right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
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Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
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Honor the resident’s right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
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Immediately tell the resident, the resident’s doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
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Honor the resident’s right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.
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Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
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Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
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Permit a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.
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Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident’s needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
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Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
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Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
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Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
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Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
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Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
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Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident’s health.
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Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
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Ensure that the resident and his/her doctor meet face-to-face at all required visits.
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Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
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Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident’s well being.
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Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
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Ensure that the facility has sufficient staff members who possess the competencies and skills to meet the behavioral health needs of residents.
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Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
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Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
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Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
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Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
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Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
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Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
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Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
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Employ sufficient staff with the appropriate competencies and skills sets to carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service, including a qualified dietician.
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Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
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Have a plan that describes the process for conducting QAPI and QAA activities.
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Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.
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Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
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Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.
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Designate a qualified infection preventionist to be responsible for the infection prevent and control program in the nursing home.
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Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program that includes effective communications for direct care staff members.
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Ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents.
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Give their staff education on dementia care, and what abuse, neglect, and exploitation are; and how to report abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
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Conduct mandatory training, for all staff, on the facility’s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program.
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Include as part of its infection prevention and control program, mandatory training that includes written standards, policies, and procedures for the program.
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Provide training in compliance and ethics.
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Provide behavior health training consistent with the requirements and as determined by a facility assessment.
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Post nurse staffing information every day.
Is it certified, and in good standing?
- Certified for Medicare and Medicaid since Jul 31, 1989.
- Not on CMS’s special focus list.
- No abuse icon from CMS.
- No change of ownership in the last 12 months.
- CMS lists its ownership as for profit, limited liability company.
- 111 certified beds.
CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
Has it been fined or penalized?
- 5 fines in the last three years, $322,104 in all.
- No Medicare payment denials in the last three years.
- 4 citations in the last three years came from complaint inspections.
CMS, Penalties and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
| Date | Kind | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 2024 | Fine | $82,856 |
| Feb 20, 2024 | Fine | $2,279 |
| Feb 12, 2024 | Fine | $1,899 |
| Jan 22, 2024 | Fine | $3,418 |
| Nov 7, 2023 | Fine | $231,652 |
Who does the caring?
3.30 nurse hours per resident per day
The Massachusetts average is 3.94.
CMS publishes staffing about four months after the fact.
CMS, Provider Information and State and US Averages. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
| Measure | This home | Massachusetts average |
|---|---|---|
| Nurse hours per resident per day | 3.30 | 3.94 |
| Of which registered nurses | 0.58 | 0.66 |
| At weekends | 3.07 | 3.52 |
| Nursing staff turnover | 39.3% | 37.6% |
| Registered nurse turnover | 44.4% | 42.7% |
| Administrators who left | 0 | Not given |
Who owns it?
- Ma Holdco Op LLC owns 100% directly since Dec 27, 2022.
- Ma5 Pointe Manager LLC and Pointe Group Care LLC and Pointe Property LLC run it.
- 20 owners or officers are people: Benjamin Berkowitz (owns a share through other companies, 60%); Jennifer Spector (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Jennifer Spector (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Barbara A Tomolonius (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Barbara A Tomolonius (on the governing body (managing control)); Barbara A Tomolonius (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Caterina M Labella (runs it (operational or managerial control), 0%); Caterina M Labella (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Benjamin Berkowitz (runs it (operational or managerial control), 0%); Benjamin Berkowitz (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Joe Joseph (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Joe Joseph (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Steven Turofsky (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Steven Turofsky (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Raymond Talamona (on the governing body (managing control)); Raymond Talamona (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Stephen P Cynewski (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Stephen P Cynewski (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Naftali Wilhelm (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Naftali Wilhelm (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)).
- Part of Adviniacare (14 homes in CMS’s data).
- No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
- No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.
CMS, All Owners. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly.
CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
| Organisation | Role | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ma Holdco Op LLC | Owns 5% or more directly | 100% | Dec 27, 2022 |
| David A Berkowitz Revoc Tr David Berkowitz Ttee | Owns a share through other companies | 19.5% | Dec 27, 2022 |
| Yosef Meystel Declaration of Tr of Yosef Meystel Ttee | Owns a share through other companies | 19.5% | Dec 27, 2022 |
| Frederick S Frankel Trust | Owns a share through other companies | 1% | Dec 27, 2022 |
| Ma5 Pointe Manager LLC | Runs it (operational or managerial control) | 0% | Dec 27, 2022 |
| Ma5 Pointe Manager LLC | Additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home) | Apr 10, 2025 | |
| Pointe Group Care LLC | Runs it (operational or managerial control) | Dec 27, 2022 | |
| Pointe Group Care LLC | Additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home) | Apr 10, 2025 | |
| David A Berkowitz Revoc Tr David Berkowitz Ttee | Additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home) | Dec 27, 2022 | |
| Pointe Property LLC | Runs it (operational or managerial control) | Dec 27, 2022 | |
| Yosef Meystel Delta Trust | Additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home) | Dec 27, 2022 | |
| David A Berkowitz Delta Trust | Additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home) | Dec 27, 2022 | |
| 180 Low St LLC | Additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home) | Apr 10, 2025 | |
| Yosef Meystel Declaration of Tr of Yosef Meystel Ttee | Additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home) | Dec 27, 2022 | |
| Curis Services LLC | Additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home) | Dec 27, 2022 |
How do residents fare?
- CMS rates its quality measures 2 of 5 (Massachusetts average 3.3).
CMS, Provider Information and State and US Averages. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
| Measure | Rating |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 3 of 5 |
| Health inspections | 3 of 5 |
| Staffing | 2 of 5 |
| Quality measures | 2 of 5 |
How does it compare nearby?
- Among the 12 nearest homes, within 10.9 miles, this one had the 7th most health citations at the latest inspection cycle (4; the middle value was 4.5).
CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
| Place | Miles away | Citations, latest cycle |
|---|---|---|
| Adviniacare Newburyport This nursing home | 4 | |
| Port Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center | 0.6 | 8 |
| The Mansion at Brigham | 1.5 | 9 |
| Maplewood Center | 2.9 | 7 |
| Mill Town Health and Rehabilitation | 3.6 | 24 |
| Lakeview House Skld Nrsg and Residential Care Fac | 8.0 | 2 |
| Baker-Katz Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Ctr | 8.8 | 4 |
| Penacook Place, Inc. | 9.3 | 2 |
| Aspen Hill Rehabiliation & Healthcare Center | 9.5 | 5 |
| Oxford Rehabilitation & Health Care Center | 9.6 | 13 |
| Oceanside Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation | 9.7 | 4 |
| Haverhill Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center | 10.9 | 0 |
What the record doesn’t say
- Complaints that didn’t lead to a citation aren’t published.
- Inspections reach CMS’s data about six weeks after they happen, and staffing about four months after.
- CMS publishes the inspectors’ full written findings in a separate monthly file, which isn’t loaded yet.
- Fines and Medicare payment denials are the only enforcement CMS publishes; state licence actions aren’t included.
Sources
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Provider Information (4pq5-n9py).
Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Health Deficiencies (r5ix-sfxw).
Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Penalties (g6vv-u9sr).
Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, All Owners (afe44b85-cc6d-40d7-b5df-00ae8910d1d2).
Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, State and US Averages (xcdc-v8bm).
Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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