Table 2.
Characteristics of participating nursing homes (N = 27)
| Characteristic | Participating Nursing Homes |
p valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment (n = 13) | Control (n = 14) | ||
| Number of beds (mean (SD)) | 149.6 (42.7) | 139.6 (39.7) | .535 |
| Number of deficiencies | |||
| Less than Washington state average | 6 | 7 | .842 |
| Greater than Washington State average | 7 | 7 | |
| CMS Star rating (range 0–5) (mean (SD)) | 2.8 (1.4) | 2.9 (1.2) | .837 |
| Ownership | |||
| Not for profit | 7 | 7 | .704 |
| For profit | 5 | 7 | |
| Government | 1 | ||
SD: standard deviation; CMS: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
a
Chi-squared test for number of deficiencies, Fisher's exact test for ownership, and unpaired two-sample t-test with unequal variances for ranked and continuous variables.