Long-term care hospitals (LTCH or LTACH): find and compare

CMS quality data for 311 Medicare-certified long-term care hospitals: how often patients return home or to the community, potentially preventable hospital readmissions, falls with major injury, pressure ulcers and infections. Every figure comes from official CMS data. The CDC's infection reporting pages for CMS call these hospitals LTACHs (long-term acute care).

By state National comparison How to read the measures What Medicare covers

Long-term care hospitals by state

Counted by each facility's address.

How CMS compares long-term care hospitals with the national rate

Rate of successful return to home or community from an LTCH (October 2023 to September 2025): CMS reports that 33 performed better than the national rate, 243 performed no different than the national rate, 41 performed worse than the national rate, and 20 were too small to report.

Rate of potentially preventable hospital readmissions 30 days after discharge from an LTCH (October 2023 to September 2025): CMS reports that 5 performed better than the national rate, 304 performed no different than the national rate, 8 performed worse than the national rate, and 19 were too small to report.

Counts of long-term care hospitals nationwide from CMS's national data file. Each facility's page shows its own CMS category.

How to read these measures

Names and definitions. Each measure is shown under the name CMS uses on Medicare.gov. Where CMS publishes more than one figure for a measure (for example a risk-standardized rate and an observed rate), the page names each figure the way CMS's data dictionary does.

Comparison with the nation. For returning home or to the community, readmissions and infections, CMS assigns each facility a category such as “Better than the National Rate”, “No Different than the National Rate” or “Worse than the National Rate” (for infections, the national benchmark). This site quotes that category as CMS published it and does not add its own judgment.

The U.S. figure. The national figure comes from CMS's national data file. For discharge to community it is the national observed rate, and for readmissions the national unadjusted average rate, while the facility figure is risk-standardized.

Missing values. When CMS does not publish a value, the page shows CMS's footnote instead, for example when the number of cases or patient stays is too small to report.

What Medicare covers in a long-term care hospital

Medicare.gov says Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance) covers care in a long-term care hospital. These hospitals typically care for patients with more than one serious medical condition, who may improve with time and care and eventually return home.

They may offer services like respiratory therapy, head trauma treatment and pain management.
After discharge, many people get care in a skilled nursing facility or custodial care in a long-term care facility.

What the patient pays each benefit period in 2026, according to Medicare.gov:

Days 1–60: $0 a day, after the $1,736 deductible.
Days 61–90: $434 a day.
Days 91–150: $868 a day while using lifetime reserve days (60 days in total, usable once in a lifetime).
After day 150: all costs.

Medicare.gov says the deductible isn't charged again if it was already charged for a prior hospital stay in the same benefit period, for example when the patient is transferred directly from an acute care hospital or admitted within 60 days of leaving a hospital.

Source: Medicare.gov, checked October 23, 2026, which gives the full conditions and other costs that may apply.

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