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Nursing: Nursing Homes

Description

Characteristics of nursing homes in New Mexico.

Arguments

Format

A dataset with 52 observations on the following 7 variables.

BedsNumber of beds in the nursing home
InPatientDaysAnnual medical in-patient days (in hundreds)
AllPatientDaysAnnual total patient days (in hundreds)
PatientRevenueAnnual patient care revenue (in hundreds of dollars)
NurseSalariesAnnual nursing salaries (in hundreds of dollars)
FacilitiesExpendAnnual facilities expenditure (in hundreds of dollars)
Rural1=rural or 0=non-rural

Details

The data were collected by the Department of Health and Social Services of the State of New Mexico and cover 52 of the 60 licensed nursing facilities in New Mexico in 1988.

References

Howard L. Smith, Niell F. Piland, and Nancy Fisher, "A Comparison of Financial Performance, Organizational Characteristics, and Management Strategy Among Rural and Urban Nursing Facilities," Journal of Rural Health, Winter 1992, pp 27-40.