Appendix Table 5.

Estimation results using individuals from different hospitals

	(1) South non-Metro region	(2) South Metro region	(3) Non-South Metro region
Distance from residential zip code	−0.0608*** [−21.42]	−0.0675*** [−9.054]	−0.0957*** [−16.80]
Distance from originating hospital	−0.0556*** [−20.78]	−0.0781*** [−10.67]	−0.105*** [−17.75]
Number of CNAs per bed	−0.614** [−2.457]	−1.904*** [−10.19]	−0.782*** [−5.893]
Number of RNs per bed	3.396*** [5.110]	2.676*** [12.51]	2.916*** [11.44]
Number of LPNs per bed	1.102 [1.391]	2.824*** [6.533]	1.899*** [5.531]
% of black in NH	−0.0224*** [−4.842]	−0.0381*** [−9.228]	−0.0521*** [−12.95]
Black * Distance from residential zip code	0.0104*** [3.108]	3.26E−05 [0.00679]	0.0209 [1.086]
Black * Distance from originating hospital	0.00980*** [3.257]	−0.00075 [−0.120]	−0.0614*** [−5.987]
Black * Number of CNAs per bed	−0.961* [−1.899]	−0.0268 [−0.0618]	−0.173 [−0.866]
Black * Number of RNs per bed	1.184 [1.582]	0.189 [0.332]	0.163 [0.514]
Black * Number of LPNs per bed	0.512 [0.469]	−1.962*** [−3.222]	0.591 [1.157]
Black * % of black in NH	0.0412*** [5.796]	0.0429*** [9.778]	0.0535*** [10.84]
Observations	1,797,450	2,567,907	2,290,414
N	10,035	28,110	62,367
% of black in sample	11.74	12.07	6.56

Note: There are very few black patients in non-south, non-metro areas, and the estimation did not converge.