Table 2. Relationship of nursing home deaths with local infection rates in staff and nursing home neighborhoods.

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Staff tract pubtrans use	1.412*** (0.303)	0.924** (0.316)
Staff tract share nonwhite			1.345*** (0.354)	0.604 (0.380)
Staff town avg case rate		2.190*** (0.452)		2.330*** (0.466)
NH town case rate		0.546*** (0.159)		0.532*** (0.160)
For-profit	0.145 (0.361)	0.277 (0.357)	0.208 (0.362)	0.315 (0.358)
Chain	0.510 (0.302)	0.480 (0.298)	0.422 (0.302)	0.420 (0.298)
Overall Rating	-0.0483 (0.173)	-0.0525 (0.171)	-0.0165 (0.174)	-0.0372 (0.171)
No prior infection viol.	0.367 (0.355)	0.404 (0.352)	0.369 (0.356)	0.416 (0.352)
Medicaid share	0.0245 (0.183)	0.0126 (0.181)	0.00831 (0.183)	-0.000745 (0.181)
Resident share nonwhite	-0.230 (0.220)	-0.481* (0.222)	-0.383 (0.243)	-0.507* (0.241)
Avg severity	0.369* (0.150)	0.402** (0.149)	0.387* (0.152)	0.398** (0.150)
Occupancy Rate	0.814*** (0.174)	0.792*** (0.172)	0.829*** (0.174)	0.804*** (0.172)
25–50 beds	0 (.)	0 (.)	0 (.)	0 (.)
50–100 beds	1.204 (0.669)	1.171 (0.661)	1.107 (0.670)	1.104 (0.662)
100–150 beds	2.220*** (0.658)	2.199*** (0.650)	2.162** (0.659)	2.145** (0.651)
150–200 beds	2.682*** (0.712)	2.599*** (0.704)	2.516*** (0.713)	2.491*** (0.704)
200+ beds	2.077** (0.805)	1.997* (0.795)	1.948* (0.807)	1.924* (0.797)
Constant	1.995** (0.684)	1.846** (0.676)	2.116** (0.684)	1.923** (0.677)
Fixed Effects	County	County	County	County
Depvar mean	4.488	4.488	4.488	4.488
Adj R2	0.34	0.35	0.33	0.35
N	2038	2038	2038	2038

This table adds measures of town-level infection rates to the models in Table 1. The sample is all nursing homes in the subsample of eight states where this data is reported (CT, FL, IL, LA, MA, MD, RI, SC). All continuous variables have been normalized to have a standard deviation of 1. Standard errors in parentheses

* p < .05

** p < .01

*** p < .001.