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Urban/Rural

Urban/Rural

Description

Number of Nursing Homes, 2026 (Urban/Rural)

Data Source

Nursing Homes Including Rehab Services (NHIRS)

Nursing Home Quality Ratings
Nursing Home Capacity
Staffing Levels And Turnover
Health And Fire Safety Inspections
Quality Measures (Mds And Claims-Based)
Ownership And Certification
Penalties And Enforcement
Snf Quality Reporting And Value-Based Purchasing
Urban/Rural Distribution
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Calculation Methodology

  1. 1
    From the CMS Provider Information dataset, read monthly provider information files and extract the state column (State) and the Urban column for each facility record. The Urban column is available from October 2025 onwards, where Urban=Y indicates an urban location and Urban=N indicates a rural location. Exclude records where state is AS, GU, MP, PR, or VI.
  2. 2
    Aggregate the number of nursing home facilities by state and urban/rural classification for each month where the Urban column is present.
  3. 3
    Calculate the yearly mean of monthly counts per state and location type to produce annualized counts.

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Number of Nursing Homes, 2026 (Urban/Rural)

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