People have flocked to Yelp, seeking restaurant information and reviews. Now, the company hopes those customers will come there for healthcare data, too.

Yelp announced that more than 25,000 hospitals, nursing homes and dialysis clinics in the United States that are listed on the site will include additional data, provided by ProPublica, a New York-based nonprofit, and Medicare.gov.

Many hospital listings will now include emergency room wait times, whether hospital staff is friendly, and whether hospital rooms are quiet. For nursing homes, Yelp lists information including how many free beds are currently available and whether the federal government has fined that place for not meeting certain standards.

The update will only be on desktop for now, but will be coming to its mobile app soon, according to the company.

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"Now the millions of consumers who use Yelp to find and evaluate everything from restaurants to retail will have even more information at their fingertips when they are in the midst of the most critical life decisions, like which hospital to choose for a sick child or which nursing home will provide the best care for aging parents," Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman wrote in a company blog post on Wednesday.

According to Yelp, 6% of all businesses checked out by users fall under the health category, so Yelp's push for more useful information is a relevant one.

The company's announcement follows last week's rough earnings, when it slashed its earnings outlook for the rest of the year due to slower growth in sales staff and the elimination of its brand advertising — effectively its display advertising — product.

Last week's disappointing news sent Yelp's stock plunging 28% the day after. (It rebounded slightly in the days following.) That's probably why Stoppelman ended on an optimistic note at the end of his note about new rollout, outlining hopes to expand the ProPublica partnership, as well as add more restaurant health scores in the U.S.

Yelp may be down, Stoppelman all but acknowledges, but it's far from out.