Table 1.

Facility Descriptors and Number of Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatments (POLSTs) Reviewed in 2012 Sample of Southern California Nursing Homes

Facility	No. of beds	Occupancy rate	Estimated no. of beds occupied	No. of POLSTs reviewed	Percent of estimated occupied beds with reviewed POLST
1	95	0.85	81	80	98.8
2	59	0.98	58	53	91.4
3	98	0.80	78	58	74.4
4	72	0.82	59	42	71.2
5	145	0.74	107	74	69.2
6	45	1.00	45	39	86.7
7	116	0.72	84	85	100.0
8	80	0.95	76	55	72.4
9	99	0.97	96	36	37.5
10	120	0.96	115	59	51.3
11	231	0.90	209	100	47.8
12	196	0.93	182	171	94.0
13	131	0.92	121	89	73.6
Mean	114	0.89	101	72	74.6