Master Facility Inventory: Nursing Homes and Other Health Care Facilities, 1976

The Master Facility Inventory data collection provides a comprehensive list of nursing, personal care, and domiciliary care facilities in the United States in 1976. The criteria for inclusion were that a facility provided medical, nursing, personal, or custodial care to groups of unrelated persons on an inpatient basis. The survey was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics in order to update its Master Facility Inventory on the number and kinds of such facilities in the United States and the changes to the list since the last MFI survey. Information gathered is for the previous calendar year and includes facility identification information, ownership and type of facility, capacity and type of beds (i.e., total beds set up and staffed for use and number of beds certified by Medicare or Medicaid as skilled and intermediate), acceptance criteria, and total number of male and female residents (or patients) for 26,748 institutions.