Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics

	Selected Surgical Patients
Demographic
Age (Mean/SD)	79.84 (7.64)
White (%)	90.28%
Black (%)	4.36%
Female (%)	68.71%
Clinical
30-day readmission rate	11.41%
Mean Length of stay (days/SD)	5.75 (5.10)
Elixhauser score (mean)	2.52
Deyo score (mean)	1.08
Skilled nursing facility characteristics
Total no. of beds (mean/SD)	119.72 (73.62)
Medicaid patients (%)	40.16%
Multi-facility chain (%)	55.22%
For profit (%)	63.21%
Any MD extender (%)	45.60%
Hospital's own SNF(%)	7.76%
Hospital-based SNF(%)	11.96%
Average deficiency score	61.8
Total no. of FTE RN (mean/SD)	11.86 (9.70)
Total no. of FTE LPN (mean/SD))	17.9 (12.62)
Total no. of FTE CAN (mean/SD)	50.87 (34.32)
Distance (km)
Between home and SNF(median)	8.68
Between hospital and SNF(median)	6.57
Observations	138,163