{
  "name": "post-acute-quality-mcp",
  "title": "HealthMesh · Post-Acute Quality MCP",
  "version": "0.1.1",
  "description": "CMS Care Compare quality for post-acute providers, queried live from the CMS Provider Data Catalog: home health agencies, hospices, dialysis facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF) and long-term care hospitals (LTCH). Provider search with star ratings where CMS publishes them, measure-level results with national values and CMS comparison categories, patient/caregiver survey results (HHCAHPS, Hospice CAHPS) and state or national rankings on one measure.",
  "healthmesh_domain": "Quality & Risk",
  "datasets": [
    "QUAL-04"
  ],
  "mcp_endpoint": "https://post-acute-quality.healthmesh.ai/mcp",
  "transport": "Streamable HTTP (stateless, JSON responses)",
  "authorization": "none",
  "auth_mode": "off",
  "docs": "https://github.com/HendrikK/healthmesh/tree/main/servers/post-acute-quality-mcp#readme",
  "contact": "hendrik.kleine@gmail.com",
  "data_source": {
    "name": "CMS Care Compare post-acute datasets (Provider Data Catalog DKAN datastore API): Home Health Care Agencies + HHCAHPS, Hospice General Information + Provider Data + CAHPS, Dialysis Facility Listing, IRF and LTCH General Information + Provider Data, with national datasets",
    "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/",
    "license": "U.S. Government work, public domain",
    "refresh": "live API (24 h edge cache); CMS refreshes post-acute data quarterly"
  },
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "pac_search_providers",
      "title": "Search post-acute providers (Care Compare)",
      "description": "Searches CMS Care Compare post-acute providers for one setting: home_health (~12,500 agencies), hospice (~6,700), dialysis (~7,500 facilities), irf (~1,200 inpatient rehabilitation facilities) or ltch (~310 long-term care hospitals), by name, city, state, ZIP, ownership and minimum star rating. Returns each provider's CCN (used by the other tools), address, ownership, certification date and the CMS star rating where one exists: home health quality of patient care stars (half stars), dialysis five-star, hospice family caregiver survey (CAHPS) summary star. IRF and LTCH have no CMS star rating."
    },
    {
      "name": "pac_get_provider_measures",
      "title": "Post-acute provider quality measures",
      "description": "Returns CMS Care Compare quality measures for one post-acute provider: value, national value, CMS comparison category (better / no different / worse), confidence limits, numerator/denominator, footnotes and measurement period. home_health: timely care, functional improvement, pressure ulcers, falls, discharge to community, potentially preventable readmission/hospitalization, Medicare spending, plus HHCAHPS survey. hospice: HOPE/HIS process measures (H_001..H_008), visits in last days, Hospice Care Index (H_012), patient mix, plus Hospice CAHPS. dialysis: five-star, SMR/SHR/SRR/STrR, infections, transplant waitlisting, ED ratios, Kt/V, fistula/catheter. irf/ltch: CAUTI/CDI/CLABSI SIRs, falls, function at discharge, PPR readmission, discharge to community, MSPB, vaccination, ventilator measures. Optional measure_code narrows to one measure."
    },
    {
      "name": "pac_compare_providers",
      "title": "Compare or rank post-acute providers on one measure",
      "description": "Ranks the providers of one setting in a state or city (or the nation) on one Care Compare measure, or compares 2-50 specific CCNs, best first using the measure's direction (sort can override). Accepts measure codes as returned by pac_get_provider_measures: IRF/LTCH/hospice measure codes (e.g. I_019_02, L_021_01, H_012_00) or exact variables (I_017_01_PPR_PD_RSRR), Hospice CAHPS codes (SUMMARY_STAR_RATING, RATING_TBV, RECOMMEND_TBV), home health codes (HH_DTC, HH_PPR, HH_TIMELY_CARE, HHCAHPS_SUMMARY_STAR, HHCAHPS_RECOMMEND) and dialysis codes (DF_FIVE_STAR, DF_SMR, DF_SHR, DF_SIR). Providers without a value are listed after ranked ones (rank null)."
    },
    {
      "name": "pac_describe_dataset",
      "title": "Describe post-acute datasets",
      "description": "Lists the CMS Provider Data Catalog datasets behind each post-acute setting (provider list, measures, national, survey) with live row counts and CMS modified dates, the star rating available per setting and the measure codes this server understands."
    }
  ]
}