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Advance
Data From Vital and Health Statistics |
An Overview of Nursing Home Facilities: Data from the 1997 National Nursing Home Survey
Advance Data 311. An Overview of Nursing Home Facilities: Data from the 1997 National Nursing Home Survey. 12 pp. (PHS) 2000-1250View/download PDF 217 KB
In 1997, there were an estimated 1.6 million current residents and 2.4 million discharges from 17,000 nursing homes nationwide. The average number of beds per nursing home was 107 with an occupancy rate of 88 percent. The majority of nursing home residents and discharges were elderly, white, and female. These facilities were predominately proprietary and certified by both Medicare and Medicaid.
Data Highlights:
Women have historically made up 75 percent of
residents in nursing homes; in 1997, women accounted for 72 percent of the total. The
average age for women was 83 years while for men it was 76 years.
Seventy-nine percent of nursing home facilities
were mid-sized (50-199 beds) and only 8 percent had more than 200 beds. By geographic
region, the largest proportions of nursing homes were in the Midwest and South.
The vast majority of nursing home residents were
65 years and over (91 percent) and 46 percent were 85 years and older.
Keywords: nursing homes, current residents, discharges
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October 15, 2008
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