October 29, 2020

Comparative Performance of Private Equity–Owned US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

Keywords (Tags): nursing home

• A cross-sectional study of 11,470 nursing homes found that private equity (PE) owned nursing homes performed comparably on resident COVID-19 cases and deaths despite more frequent shortages of PPE in PE-owned vs. other types of nursing homes. No statistically significant differences in COVID-19 cases, COVID-19 deaths, nor deaths from all causes were detected between PE-owned vs. for-profit and nonprofit facilities, or government-owned facilities.
• Compared to PE-owned nursing homes, for-profit, nonprofit, and government-owned nursing homes were 10.5%, 15%, and 17% more likely to have at least a 1-week supply of N95 masks, and 24.3%, 30.7%, and 29.2% more likely to have at least a 1 -week supply of medical gowns, respectively.

Braun et al. (Oct 28, 2020). Comparative Performance of Private Equity–Owned US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26702