In Nursing Homes: CMS Should Make Ownership Information More Transparent for Consumers, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) notes the importance of ownership information, reporting that for-profit and chain-owned nursing facilities often have less staff and provide poorer care to residents. The GAO finds that that Care Compare provides timely information about nursing home ownership, but does not meet the GAO’s five other criteria for presenting meaningful data to consumers. The federal website is not written in plain language, does not highlight important patterns, is not easy to use, and fails to identify either the purpose and value of the information or the information’s key strengths and limitations.