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How many nursing facilities are in Ohio?
What are the major characteristics of Ohio’s nursing facilities? (size, affiliation, cost)

Table 1 illustrates some defining characteristics of nursing facilities (NF) in Ohio. These facilities are reported by their designation as freestanding, hospital-based, county homes, or as combined nursing and residential care facility. In 1999, freestanding nursing facilities’ major source of payment (70.0%) came from Medicaid compared to 21.7% of hospital-based facility payments. 76.6% of freestanding NFs were for-profit entities charging an average daily rate of $120 per Medicaid resident, while hospital-based facilities were not-for-profit entities charging an average daily rate of $332 per Medicaid resident.

Nursing Facilities in Ohio, 1999

	Nursing Facilities	County Homes	Hospital-Based Long-Term Care Unit	Combined Nursing Home/RCF
Facilities	727	30	59	218
Beds	71,260	2,075	1,881	20,485
Ownership (%)
For Profit	76.6	0.0	1.6	59.6
Not for Profit	13.9	3.3	88.1	40.6
Private	1.8	96.7	10.2	0.0
Average Daily Charge (dollars)
Medicaid	120	109	332	125
Medicare	220	187	380	218
Private	127	101	318	133
Nursing Facility Resident Payment Source (%)
Medicaid	70.0	61.1	21.7	55.1
Medicare	6.7	2.9	58.1	7.3
Private	21.9	27.9	17.6	35.0

For more information on characteristics of Ohio’s nursing facilities, click on Long-Term Care in Ohio: A Longitudinal Perspective by Robert Applebaum & Shahla Mehdizadeh (2001).