Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) serve over 62 million Americans with Medicare Part A SNF coverage.  SNFs are medical facilities staffed and equipped to provide skilled nursing care on a daily basis.  Very often, SNFs can also provide skilled rehabilitative care and certain related services.  More than 15,000 skilled nursing facilities, having over 1.58 million beds, participated in the Medicare program in the calendar year 2020.

As of 2020, the six-state Far West region of the U.S. was home to 1,597 skilled nursing facilities, with over 155,000 beds, that participated in the Medicare program.  Relative to other regions of the country, the Far West's Medicare enrollees are under-served by SNFs as the region houses much less of Medicare's SNF bed capacity (9.8%) than its share of the national Medicare enrollee population (15.2%).  Here is a summary look at Medicare skilled nursing facility beds in the Far West region of the country:

Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Beds in the Far West

Area	# Part A Enrollees		# SNFs	# Beds
AK	104,078		20	827
CA	6,281,323		1,153	114,392
HI	280,787		43	4,123
NV	546,759		64	6,975
OR	885,544		120	10,098
WA	1,397,182		197	18,590
Region	9,495,673		1,597	155,005
National*	62,498,751		15,015	1,588,755
% of National	15.2%		10.6%	9.8%

* 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