Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Beds in the Southeast

Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) provide services to more than 60 million Americans with Medicare Part A SNF coverage.  SNFs are institutional medical providers staffed and equipped to give skilled nursing care on a daily basis. Skilled nursing facilities, in most cases, can also provide skilled rehabilitative care and certain other related services.  More than 15,000 skilled nursing facilities, having over 1.5 million beds, were participating in the Medicare program as of calendar year 2019.

In calendar year 2019, the Southeast was home to just under 3,600 skilled nursing facilities, having over 389,000 beds, who were participating in the Medicare program.  Although home to 24.4% of Medicare's SNF beds, about 27.3% of the nation's Medicare Part A enrollees live in the region.  Thus, Medicare enrollees in the region are modestly under-served by SNF beds relative to enrollees in many other parts of the country.  Here is a summary look at Medicare skilled nursing facility beds in the Southeast:

Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Beds in the Southeast

Area	# Part A Enrollees		# SNFs	# Beds
AL	1,040,502		226	26,683
AR	636,495		222	23,840
FL	4,550,450		698	83,099
GA	1,708,820		356	38,404
KY	917,181		285	26,713
LA	867,854		278	33,997
MS	601,243		182	16,480
NC	1,978,972		426	43,955
SC	1,070,242		191	19,879
TN	1,354,299		310	35,258
VA	1,504,299		274	31,010
WV	438,435		114	9,895
Region	16,668,792		3,562	389,213
National*	61,166,694		15,103	1,592,041
% of National	27.3%		23.6%	24.4%

* National totals include U.S. territories

Data Source:  CMS Program Statistics, Table: MDCR PROVIDERS 4. Medicare Providers:  Number of Medicare Certified Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities, and Number of Beds, by State, Territories, Possessions and Other, Calendar Year 2019