Source
CMS Hospital Quality Compare · vintage 2026 · refresh cadence: quarterly
CMS-certified inpatient facilities within service radius
Direction of better
Higher values are better. Used to rank candidate towns/properties; higher score = stronger fit.
Unit
Values are reported in count.
Where the data lives
Tables: municipality_metrics
Columns: hospitals_10mi
Input field: hospitals_10mi
JSON-LD example
Every value emitted by ValiFit (in /api/v1, MCP responses, on-page JSON-LD) carries a propertyID set to this metric_id, so AI clients can resolve it back here in one round-trip.
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"propertyID": "town.hospitals_10mi",
"name": "Hospitals within 10 mi",
"value": 8,
"unitText": "count",
"additionalProperty": [
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "composite",
"value": "Health"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "level",
"value": "city"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "direction",
"value": "higher_better"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "source_year",
"value": "2026"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "fha_safe",
"value": true
}
],
"valueReference": {
"@type": "QuantitativeValue",
"additionalType": "https://valifit.com/catalog/metric",
"identifier": "town.hospitals_10mi",
"sameAs": "CMS Hospital Quality Compare"
},
"mentions": [
{
"@type": "Dataset",
"@id": "https://valifit.com/sources/cms-hospital-quality",
"identifier": "CMS_HOSPITAL",
"name": "CMS Hospital Quality Compare",
"url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/initiatives/hospital-quality-initiative",
"sameAs": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/initiatives/hospital-quality-initiative",
"creator": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "CMS"
},
"temporalCoverage": "quarterly",
"dateModified": "2026-04-01"
}
]
}For programmatic access
GET /api/v1/catalog/metrics?id=town.hospitals_10mi
MCP tool: get_catalog with id="town.hospitals_10mi"