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Inventory of Long-Term Care Places/National Master Facility Inventory (NMFI) Public-Use Data Files

Survey description
Data file description
List of data file variables at a glance 
Data file technical characteristics
Geographic coverage
Data availability
Ordering information
Documentation contents
Related reports
Contact

Survey description
The National Master Facility Inventory Survey (NMFI) is a comprehensive list of facilities in the United States that provide medical, nursing, personal, or custodial care to groups of unrelated persons on an inpatient basis.

Data file description
Each file contains the name and address of the facility. Earlier files included hospitals, nursing and related care homes, and other inpatient health facilities. The most recent files include only nursing and related care homes. In 1986, the name of the survey was changed to the Inventory of Long-Term Care Places because the survey was expanded to include facilities for the mentally challenged.

List of data file variables at a glance

Inventory of long-term care places,nursing homes, residential facilities, and facilities for the mentally retarded

Name
Address
Phone number
Ownership
Total beds
Medicare skilled beds¹
Medicaid skilled beds¹
Intermediate care beds²
Intermediate care beds for the mentally retarded³
Total residents
Age group served
Types of persons served
Type of facility
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¹Skilled nursing facility
²Intermediate care facility
³Intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded

NMFI, hospitals

Name
Name of administrator
Ownership
Type of facility
Number of beds
Days of care
Discharges
Admissions
Type of service
Outpatient visits
Employees
Facilities and services offered

NMFI, nursing homes only

Name
Address
Ownership
Total beds
Skilled beds (skilled nursing facility)
Intermediate care beds (intermediate care facility)
Residents
Discharges (1982 only)

NMFI, nursing homes and other health facilities

Name
Address
Number of beds
Ownership
Type of facility
Ages served
Sexes served
Number of residents

Data file technical characteristics

Inventory of long-term care places

NMFI, hospitals

NMFI, nursing homes only

NMFI, nursing homes and other health facilities

Geographic coverage
Inpatient facilities in the entire United States are represented. Geographic detail is available by State, county, and U.S. Bureau of Census region.

Data availability
NMFI data are available 1971-82 and the Inventory of Long-Term Care Places for 1986.

Ordering information
The National Master Facility Inventory Survey and the Inventory of Long-Term Care Places CD-ROM can only be purchased through the National Technical Information Survey (NTIS). Contact NTIS for current pricing.

Data on CD-ROM
Inventory of Long-Term Care Places, 1986

NMFIS, hospitals

NMFIS, nursing homes and other health facilities

Documentation contents
Each products comes with the necessary documentation that is needed to access the data. This includes information on tape content and layout.

Related reports
An overview of the development and findings of the NMFI is available in the Vital and Health Statistics series and Advance Data series.

Contact
Long-Term Care Statistics Branch
Division of Health Care Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3311 Toledo Road, Room 3409
Hyattsville, Maryland 20782
(301) 458-4747

This page last reviewed March 16, 2009