Data are for calendar year 2007.
For full details about the data and data collection, please refer to the report, "Nursing, Facilities, Staffing, Residents, and Facility Deficiencies, 2001 Through 2007," cited below.

C. Harrington, H. Carrillo, and B. Blank. Table 34, "Nursing, Facilities, Staffing, Residents, and Facility Deficiencies, 2001 Through 2007," Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, accessed September 2008. Available at http://www.pascenter.org. Based on the Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting system (OSCAR), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Deficiency: Given to nursing facilities for problems which can result in a negative impact on the health and safety of residents.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services define "actual harm" as a "deficiency that results in a negative outcome that has negatively affected the resident''s ability to achieve the individual''s highest functional status. "Immediate jeopardy" is defined as a deficiency that "has caused (or is likely to cause) serious injury, harm, impairment, or death to a resident receiving care in the nursing home."