Table. Means of Facility Characteristics by State Reporting Status.
| All (N = 15 415) | State case data reporting | State death data reporting | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Available (n = 4599) | Not available (n = 10 816) | P value for differencea | Available (n = 7405) | Not available (n = 8010) | P value for differencea | ||
| Cumulative COVID-19 data from NHSN, mean (SD) [IQR] per facility | |||||||
| Cases | |||||||
| As of May 24 | 4.5 (14.5) [0-0] | 8.1 (19.9) [0-3] | 2.4 (9.2) [0-0] | <.001 | 8.2 (20.3) [0-3] | 2.6 (9.7) [0-0] | <.001 |
| As of Dec 27 | 33.1 (31.9) [6-51] | 38.7 (36.7) [8-59] | 29.7 (28.1) [5-46] | <.001 | 39.9 (37.4) [9-61] | 29.5 (28.0) [5-46] | <.001 |
| Deaths | |||||||
| As of May 24 | 1.6 (5.3) [0-0] | 2.2 (5.9) [0-1] | 1.4 (5.1) [0-0] | <.001 | 2.7 (7.0) [0-1] | 0.6 (2.5) [0-0] | <.001 |
| As of Dec 27 | 6.6 (9.0) [0-10] | 7.6 (10.1) [0-11] | 6.2 (8.5) [0-9] | <.001 | 7.8 (10.5) [1-11] | 5.4 (7.1) [0-8] | <.001 |
| Facility characteristics, No. (%)b | |||||||
| Region | |||||||
| Northeast | 2542 (16.5) | 1135 (24.7) | 1407 (13.0) | <.001 | 2414 (32.6) | 128 (1.6) | <.001 |
| Midwest | 5033 (32.7) | 438 (9.5) | 4595 (42.5) | <.001 | 718 (9.7) | 4351 (53.9) | <.001 |
| South | 5446 (35.3) | 1542 (33.5) | 3904 (36.1) | .002 | 2789 (37.6) | 2657 (33.2) | <.001 |
| West | 2387 (15.5) | 1484 (32.3) | 903 (8.4) | <.001 | 1484 (20.0) | 903 (11.3) | <.001 |
| Ownership or chain affiliation | |||||||
| For-profit | 10 743 (69.9) | 3407 (74.1) | 7336 (67.9) | <.001 | 5425 (73.3) | 5318 (66.4) | <.001 |
| Chain | 8857 (59.4) | 2690 (59.8) | 6167 (59.3) | .55 | 4056 (56.1) | 4801 (62.6) | <.001 |
| Beds, No. | |||||||
| <100 | 7690 (50.0) | 2176 (47.3) | 5514 (51.0) | <.001 | 3023 (40.9) | 4667 (58.3) | <.001 |
| 100-150 | 5120 (33.3) | 1556 (33.8) | 3564 (33.0) | .31 | 2630 (35.6) | 2490 (31.1) | <.001 |
| 150-200 | 1633 (10.6) | 572 (12.4) | 1061 (9.8) | <.001 | 1012 (13.7) | 621 (7.8) | <.001 |
| ≥200 | 972 (6.0) | 295 (6.4) | 677 (6.3) | .46 | 740 (10.0) | 232 (2.9) | <.001 |
| Star rating | |||||||
| 1 | 2657 (17.5) | 771 (17.0) | 1886 (17.8) | .29 | 1232 (16.9) | 1425 (18.1) | .05 |
| 2 | 2974 (19.6) | 889 (19.6) | 2085 (19.3) | .97 | 1433 (19.6) | 1541 (19.6) | .91 |
| 3 | 2759 (18.2) | 832 (18.3) | 1927 (18.2) | .71 | 1329 (18.2) | 1430 (18.2) | .93 |
| 4 | 3244 (21.5) | 926 (20.4) | 2318 (21.8) | .07 | 1540 (21.1) | 1704 (21.7) | .43 |
| 5 | 3520 (23.2) | 1119 (24.7) | 2401 (22.6) | .004 | 1762 (24.2) | 1758 (22.4) | .008 |
Abbreviations: IQR, interquartile range; NHSN, National Healthcare Safety Network.
a
P values are results from a 2-sample t test for a difference in means with unequal variances between included and excluded facilities.
b
Means of categorical variables for region, ownership, chain affiliation, number of beds, and star rating are expressed as percentages.