2024 Oregon Long Term Care State Report www.ohca.com 10 Nursing Facilities and Post-Acute Care With 129 licensed skilled nursing facilities, Oregon has one of the lowest numbers of nursing facility beds per capita in the country.14 Nursing facilities typically provide care for individuals in need of rehabilitation following a serious health complication or hospital stay. While some individuals may reside in nursing facilities for a long period of time due to more intensive ongoing skilled care needs, often nursing facility stays are short in comparison to those receiving care and services in other types of long term care settings. Therefore, length of stay in Oregon nursing facilities is highly compressed and reflects our state’s intentional emphasis on home and community-based services rather than institutional care settings, lowering costs for the state since nursing facility care is more costly than community-based options. The median length of stay in 2023 was 22 days.15 Median length of stay increased in 2020 and has continued to slowly rise over the last three years because of the impacts of COVID-19. This is likely due to serving a higher proportion of individuals with higher acuity and complex care needs. Median Length of Stay: Oregon Nursing Facilities 25 18 19 21 22 23 24 20 17 16 15 NUMBER OF DAYS 201716 201817 201918 202019 202120 202221 202322 Source: Luck et al., 2021–2024 and Mendez-Luck et al., 2018–2020.
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