Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) provide services to more than 62 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 1.58 million beds, were participating in the Medicare program as of the calendar year 2020.

In the calendar year 2020, the twelve-state Southeastern U.S. was home to 3,560 skilled nursing facilities, having over 390,000 beds, that were participating in the Medicare program.  Although home to 24.6% of Medicare's SNF beds, about 27.3% of the nation's Medicare Part A enrollees lived in the region.  Thus, Medicare enrollees in the region were 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	1,056,359		226	26,607
AR	645,494		221	23,719
FL	4,674,019		704	84,250
GA	1,754,062		355	38,471
KY	931,126		284	26,612
LA	882,812		276	33,799
MS	609,478		183	16,547
NC	2,028,204		426	43,928
SC	1,101,105		189	20,029
TN	1,382,574		308	35,076
VA	1,540,473		274	31,313
WV	442,495		114	9,881
Region	17,048,200		3,560	390,232
National*	62,498,751		15,015	1,588,755
% of National	27.3%		23.7%	24.6%

* 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, the Calendar Year 2020