Nursing home quality improvements have been on an upward trend for the last decade, a new report from the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living found.
The report, which was published March 17, analyzed data from 2010-20 to examine quality improvement measures in the industry prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Four key findings:
- Nursing facilities saw 3.5 million admissions from hospitals each year for the past decade.
- Nearly two-thirds of patients were able to return home after receiving rehabilitation therapy from skilled nursing facilities.
- On average, nurses were providing an additional 198 total hours of care per nursing home each quarter.
- One out of 3 nursing homes received four or five stars from CMS for staffing.