indicator
Average Residents
Average Residents
Description
Nursing Homes Are an Important Part of the Long-Term Care System, 2023 (Average Residents)
Data Source
Nursing Homes Including Rehab Services (NHIRS)
Calculation Methodology
- 1From the CMS Provider Information dataset, read monthly provider information files and extract the state column (
Provider State(January–May) /State(June–December)) and the average residents column (Average Number of Residents per Day) for each facility record. Exclude records where state is AS, GU, MP, PR, or VI. Coerce the residents column to numeric, treating non-parseable entries as missing. - 2Sum the average number of residents per day across all facilities with valid data, grouped by state, for each month.
- 3Calculate the yearly mean of monthly totals per state to produce an annualized sum of average daily residents.
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Nursing Homes Are an Important Part of the Long-Term Care System, 2023 (Average Residents)
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