Nursing Home Data for Statistics

The study discussed in “A Comparison of Financial Performance, Organizational Characteristics, and Management Strategy Among Rural and Urban Nursing Facilities” was conducted to understand the influence of patient care amongst beds, in-patient days, patient days, patient care revenue, nursing salaries, and facilities expenditures between the rural and non-rural nursing homes/facilities in New Mexico. The main hypothesis that was tested among the dataset was does rural homes have a lower average of beds? This specific study was conducted using a hypothesis testing of two samples that had two means. The reason why the choice of testing of two samples means were because it compared the two sets of data that are directly related to each other. The reason why I believed that rural homes have a lower average of beds due to the fact that rural areas are the countryside rather than the big known towns or towns of the state. The population that my data set represents was the number of beds that the in-patients had in each of the homes between non-rural home and rural home facilities. The reason why the data was collected was because the Department of Health and Social Services of the State of New Mexico and cover 60 licensed nursing facilities in New Mexico in 1988. The methods that were used to collect the data was by the number of beds that were used in the home, annual medical in patient days (hundreds), annual total patient days (hundreds), annual total patient care revenue ($hundreds), annual nursing salaries ($hundreds), annual facilities expenditures ($hundred), and where the home was located between non-rural and rural areas. The source of the data set of the nursing home information toward New Mexico in 1988 was part of the data analyzed by Howard L. Smith, Niell F. Piland, and Nancy Fisher. This was published in the Journal of Rural Health in winter 1992. This data set can be calculated in four different types of forms. It can be calculated in a health,