Nursing Home Database

Public documentation for the Nursing Home Database Model Context Protocol server. It exposes US nursing facility search, detail, ownership, and owner portfolio data to AI assistants and other MCP clients.

Website: nursinghomedatabase.com
Contact: Contact page

MCP endpoint

Transport	Streamable HTTP (JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTPS)
URL	https://mcp.nursinghomedatabase.com/mcp
Auth	None required for discovery and tools (public access)

Send a standard MCP session: initialize → notifications/initialized (optional; may receive HTTP 204) → tools/list → tools/call as needed.

Tools

After tools/list, you will see tools such as:

Tool	Purpose
search_facilities	Search facilities by name, geography, filters, or distance from a free-form address
get_facility	Get one facility by CMS provider number or site slug
get_facility_ownership	Ownership records for a facility
search_owners	Search owners by name
get_owner	Owner portfolio by web_owner slug
get_data_freshness	Dataset freshness metadata

Exact parameters and schemas are returned in the tools/list response (inputSchema per tool).

search_facilities highlights

search_facilities supports the usual location and rating filters plus address-based distance search.

• address: free-form origin address, for example 150 Corporate Woods Drive, Magnolia, TX 77354
• radius_miles: optional positive number; defaults to 25 when address is provided
• sort=distance: sorts nearest results first when using address-based search

If the supplied address cannot be resolved to a valid location, the API returns an address-specific validation error rather than a generic internal failure.

MCP Registry

This server is listed in the official MCP Registry as com.nursinghomedatabase/mcp.

• Registry metadata for clients and automation: server.json in this repository.
• Search API: https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers?search=com.nursinghomedatabase

REST API (same backend)

JSON discovery APIs are also available under the main site, for example:

• GET https://www.nursinghomedatabase.com/api/v1/nh/capabilities
• GET https://www.nursinghomedatabase.com/api/v1/nh/... (see site documentation)

MCP and REST share the same underlying data layer.

For REST callers, the facilities endpoint now supports:

• GET https://www.nursinghomedatabase.com/api/v1/nh/facilities?address=150+Corporate+Woods+Drive,+Magnolia,+TX+77354
• GET https://www.nursinghomedatabase.com/api/v1/nh/facilities?address=150+Corporate+Woods+Drive,+Magnolia,+TX+77354&radius_miles=10
• GET https://www.nursinghomedatabase.com/api/v1/nh/facilities?address=150+Corporate+Woods+Drive,+Magnolia,+TX+77354&radius_miles=10&sort=distance

Example: Cursor / IDE config

Add a Streamable HTTP MCP server pointing at the URL above, for example:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nursing-home-database": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.nursinghomedatabase.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Adjust field names to match your client’s MCP configuration format.

Repository contents

File	Description
server.json	Published MCP Registry manifest (name, version, remote URL)
README.md	This file

There is no application source code in this repository; the MCP is implemented in the Nursing Home Database production environment.

License and data

Data is derived from public CMS and related sources; use is subject to the terms published on nursinghomedatabase.com. For licensing or bulk use, use the site contact form.