Chapter 5 Nursing Homes

Number of Nursing Homes 20,000 19,100 19,000 18,000 18,000 17,083 16,886 17,000 17,000 16,000 15,700 15,647 15,000 SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics. (1997). Table 1: Number and percent distribution of nursing homes, beds, current residents, and discharges by selected facility characteristics: United States, 1997. Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics. No. 311. Hyattsville, MD: Public Health Service. p. 3. 14,000 13,000 1973-4 1985 1995 1997 1999 2000 2002 Copyright © 2005 by Thomson Delmar Learning. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Number of Nursing Home Beds (select years, 1973-2001) 2,000,000 1,820,800 1,795,388 1,770,900 1,807,285 1,779,924 1,800,000 1,624,200 1,600,000 1,400,000 SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics. (2003). Table 110: Number and percent distribution of nursing homes, beds, current residents, and discharges by selected facility characteristics: United States, 2003. Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics. Hyattsville, MD: Public Health Service. 1,177,300 1,200,000 1,000,000 1973-4 1985 1995 1997 1999 2000 2001 Copyright © 2005 by Thomson Delmar Learning. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Sources of Payment for Nursing Home Care, 2000 (total = $92.2 billion) Private Insurance Out-of- Other 8.4% pocket Private 26.6% 4% Other Medicare SOURCE: Health, United States, 2002 for 2000, Table 117 Gov't. 10.7% Medicaid 2.3% 49% Copyright © 2005 by Thomson Delmar Learning. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Percent Distribution of Primary Expected Source of Payment SOURCE: Jones, A. (2002). The national nursing home survey: 1999 summary (National Center for Health Statistics). Vital Health Statistics, 13(152). Located in The Continuum of Long-Term Care, 3rd Ed., Figure 5.1 Copyright © 2005 by Thomson Delmar Learning. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.