Hearth Record

Home health in North Carolina

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827 home health agencies in North Carolina.

From CMS’s quarterly release of Oct 21, 2026. With North Carolina’s own list of the home health agencies it licenses that Medicare doesn’t certify.

Also listed

DHSR’s home health listing (its Home Health Only and Home Health with Hospice workbooks) holds 211 licensed home health agency offices. 162 of them are in CMS’s files (by Medicare number, name or address) and shown from CMS’s records; 1 is listed here as licensed by North Carolina and not Medicare-certified. Not listed: 48 offices of agencies CMS lists, which North Carolina licenses office by office. DHSR’s Home Care All listing holds 675 home care licences for nursing or therapy at home that aren’t home health or hospice licences. 14 of them are in CMS’s files as home health agencies (by name or address), the same company’s certified office, and shown from CMS’s records; 661 are listed here as home care agencies licensed by North Carolina for skilled care, a kind Medicare doesn’t certify.

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What the words on these cards mean7
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.
Condition-level deficiency
For hospices, home health agencies, hospitals and dialysis facilities, CMS writes deficiencies at two levels. Standard is the usual one; condition-level is the more serious, when a problem is serious enough that the provider doesn’t meet a whole condition of taking part in Medicare. Source: CMS, State Operations Manual.
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.
None on record
The source lists nothing of this kind for the place, over the years its file covers. That is what the record holds, not proof that nothing ever happened. Source: How this site reads each source.
Not published
The source has no such field for this place. It isn’t a zero, and it isn’t a clean record. Source: How this site reads each source.

The list

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    Source:

    CMS, Home Health Care Agencies. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated quarterly.

    North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation, Acute and Home Care Licensure and Certification Section, Home Health Only Facilities; Home Health with Hospice Facilities and Home Care All. Released Oct 6, 2026. Updated monthly.

    Side by side

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    Every line is a fact its source published, in that source’s own words. On a line whose figures can be ordered, the one that leads is marked; that is not a rating, and no line is weighed against another. “Not published” means that state’s file has no such field, which is not the same as a zero.

    How to read a record

    Four things every record does, shown on an example record made up for this guide.

    An example record, made up for this guide

    An example nursing home

    Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

    Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

    11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

    The state average is 14.3.

    Source:

    CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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