Care: doctors, hospitals and nursing homes
check_careReturns clinicians from the federal NPI registry (CMS) for a name (last name, first name, state) or a specialty in a city or state: credential, specialty, state license number, practice address and phone, whether the record is active, and whether they opted out of Medicare. The registry is not a quality rating and does not show insurance networks. For hospitals and nursing homes, returns Medicare's ratings in a US city or ZIP code, highest rated first. Nursing homes include overall, health-inspection, staffing and quality stars, total fines, Medicare's abuse icon and stale inspections. Hospitals include the overall star rating, emergency services and safety measures better or worse than national. Each row includes a Medicare Care Compare link. Applies to questions about a clinician in the federal registry, or Medicare ratings for hospitals and nursing homes in a US place. Not medical advice; the person chooses their care.
Tool call template
This tool declares no required parameters. Add optional parameters from the input schema as needed.
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"name": "check_care"
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}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| zip | No | Hospitals and nursing homes: 5-digit ZIP code instead of city and state | |
| city | No | ||
| kind | No | clinician (doctor, nurse practitioner, therapist and others), hospital or nursing_home; clinician when a name or specialty is sent | |
| name | No | Part of a hospital's or nursing home's name, to check one place | |
| limit | No | ||
| state | No | Two-letter state | |
| last_name | No | Clinician's last name | |
| specialty | No | Clinician specialty, e.g. 'pediatrics', 'dermatology', 'family medicine', 'psychologist' | |
| first_name | No | Clinician's first name |