1. Chapter 5 Nursing Homes

2. 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, Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics. No Hyattsville, MD: Public Health Service. p. 3.
14,000
13,000
1973-4
1985
1995
1997
1999
2000
2002
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3. Number of Nursing Home Beds
(select years, )
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, 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
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4. 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%
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5. 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
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