Facts about Long Term Care

There are approximately 1,250 licensed nursing facilities in California. These facilities care for more than 400,000 Californians each year.
There are approximately 8,100 assisted living/residential care facilities in California.
There are approximately 760 ICF/DD-H homes and approximately 400 ICF/DD-N homes and 10 ICF/DD-CN homes in California.
There are 16 intermediate care facilities in California.
In 2018, the average reported cost per patient day for a skilled nursing facility was approximately $275 or ($100,375 annually).
More than two thirds of California’s nursing home residents rely on Medi-Cal or Medi-Cal managed care to pay for their care in a nursing facility. The average Medi-Cal reimbursement rate is $219.57 per day.
Almost 100 percent of clients who reside in homes for the developmentally disabled rely on Medi-Cal to pay for their care.
Medi-Cal does not generally pay for assisted living.
About 90 percent of assisted living services are paid for with private funds.
The length of stay in today’s nursing facility is less than three months for 80 percent of the resident population; with fewer than seven percent of all residents remaining in the facility for one year or more.
Sixty percent long-term care residents are women.
Approximately 93 percent of long-term care residents in California are age 65 or older.
On average, nursing facility residents require some level of assistance with three or more of the activities of daily living, which include bathing, dressing, transferring, toileting and eating. Assisted living residents need help with on average 1.6 activities of daily living.
California has four million people over the age of 65.  This number is expected to increase to more than 6 million by 2020.