Recent years have brought numerous warnings about impending mass closures of U.S. nursing homes. New research suggests the fears may have been overblown. At the same time, “access deserts” have arisen and are, in places, hard to solve. The team behind the study offers two plausible explanations for the relative health of the overall nursing home industry in 2026: Either the observers issuing the warnings overstated the risk of widespread closings—or COVID-era emergency funds succeeded in heading off a calamity of national proportions. Of course, both these explanations may be true, the team allows.
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