NH Staff Turnover

CMS began to publicly report nursing home staff turnover data in July 2022, covering turnover among registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certified nursing assistants. This Scorecard captures data published in January 2023 while looking back at the 12-month period of 2022. Nationally, turnover for these important roles exceeds 50 percent, meaning that more than half the nursing staff in nursing homes at the beginning of 2022 were no longer at the facility at which they worked by the end of the year. Across states, turnover ranged from about 40 percent to more than 60 percent.

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39.3%

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53.9%

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Methodology

The percentage of nursing staff who worked at a nursing home but stopped working there over a 12-month period, aggregated to the state level. The data includes all nursing home nursing staff levels: registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certified nursing assistants.

The turnover data includes all nursing staff who leave the facility, on either a voluntary or involuntary basis. For more detail on the turnover data specifications, please see Design for Care Compare Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System: Technical Users’ Guide: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/provider-enrollment-and-certification/certificationandcomplianc/downloads/usersguide.pdf (pg. 11).CMS Nursing Home Care Compare published in January 2023. https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/