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62.8% Of U.S. For-Profit Nursing Homes Changed Ownership During COVID-19 Pandemic

September 11, 2026

A study published in March 2026 that was designed to examine relationships between facility and resident characteristics to ownership change in U.S. nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., between March 2020 to March 2023) reported that of the 9,256 for-profit nursing homes with an organiz[...]

Nursing Home Capacity Has Dropped Twice As Fast Since The Pandemic

March 8, 2026

The number of licensed skilled nursing facility (SNF – nursing home) beds declined by 2.5% from 2019 to 2024, while operating capacity declined by 5.0% over the same time period. A recently published study found that the estimated operating capacity based on maximum census counts declined 5% b[...]

Study Finds Quality Of Florida Nursing Home Care Declined After Change To Private-Equity Ownership

November 28, 2025

Between 2019 and 2024, 425 nursing homes in Florida (over 60% of Florida’s total nursing homes) changed ownership, with at least one-third of these sold to private equity investors. In 2019, 29 of Florida’s total nursing home facilities reported ownership changes. In 2020, the number of owne[...]

Study: Nursing Home Physician Patient Volume Not Significant Factor For Postacute Care Outcomes

September 30, 2025

A study published on August 15, 2025 on JAMA Network Open entitled “Clinician Volume and Outcomes Among Patients Admitted to Nursing Homes for Postacute Care” found that nursing home physician or advanced practitioner panel size was not associated with higher rates of rehospitalization, [...]

National Bureau of Economic Research Finds Nursing Homes Strategically Respond To Inspections

September 22, 2025

Nursing Homes In The United States U.S. nursing homes housed more than 1.2 million patients in 2024 and incurred spending of $193 billion in 2022, which is equivalent to one-seventh of the national expenditures on the hospital sector and 4 percent of national medical spending. As baby boomers contin[...]

Study: Major Underreporting Of Fall And Pressure Ulcer Injuries In U.S. Nursing Homes

September 5, 2025

The results of a study that were published in 2023 that investigated the question, “To what extent are nursing home characteristics associated with reporting rates of major injury falls and pressure ulcers on the Nursing Home Care Compare (NHCC) website?” that involved 13, 179 nursing [...]

Study Finds Delays In Nursing Home Inspections Lead To Quality Decline

August 30, 2025

In a research article published in June 2025 entitled, “Do Inspection Delays Lead to Quality Decline? Evidence from U.S. Nursing Homes,” the researchers analyzed an 8-year panel dataset from 2016 to 2024 and found: “longer delays significantly increase health deficiency citations�[...]

Residents Of Bankrupt Nursing Homes More Likely To Suffer Physical Restraints And Bedsores

July 18, 2025

Nursing homes are a $200 billion industry in the U.S. There are more than 15,000 nursing homes in the United States that employ about 1.4 million staff and provide services to more than 1.3 million residents daily. Total debt in the U.S. healthcare sector doubled between 2019 and 2024. Moody’s rat[...]

Private Equity Nursing Homes

June 20, 2025

A report from April 2025 entitled Private Equity is Continuing to Acquire – and Bankrupt – Nursing Homes found: If you or a loved one suffered injuries (or worse) while a resident of a nursing home in the United States due to nursing home neglect, nursing home negligence, nursing home ab[...]

9 In 10 Nursing Homes Have Staffing Levels Below Expectations

May 13, 2025

The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) issued a report on May 2, 2025 entitled, “LTCCC Alert: Nine in 10 Nursing Homes Fall Short of Expected Staffing, New Federal Data Show (Q3 2024)” in which it found, based on its analysis of the most recent payroll-based journal (PBJ) data re[...]

Study: People With Dementia More Likely To Be Admitted To Low-Quality Nursing Homes

January 10, 2025

A research article first published on October 29, 2024 entitled “Impact of skilled nursing facility quality on Medicare beneficiaries with dementia: Evidence from vacancies” concluded: “People living with dementia are less likely to be admitted to high-rated nursing homes than peop[...]

Study Finds Nursing Homes That Upcoded Residents’ Conditions Resulted In More Preventable Conditions, More Hospitalizations, And More Deaths

December 31, 2024

The abstract to a study published in October 2024 entitled Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry states: “Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) systems that provided excess rehab therapy just above revenue thresholds quickly begin upcoding previously unidentified com[...]

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