Nursing Home Hours per Resident Day (CMS PBJ Method and Exclusions)
Nursing home reported nurse staffing hours per resident day by the CMS PBJ method, with CMS's six exclusions.
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Example
- RN hours
- 7000
- LPN hours
- 8000
- Nurse aide hours
- 20000
- Resident census, summed over the days
- 9000
- Weekend nurse hours
- 2500
- Weekend nurse aide hours
- 1400
- Weekend resident census, summed
- 650
- Days with residents and no RN hours
- 0
Result: Total nurse 3.889, RN 0.778, weekend total nurse 3.846 reported hours per resident day.
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What you enter
- RN hours (job codes 5 to 7)
- LPN hours (job codes 8 and 9)
- Nurse aide hours (job codes 10 to 12)
- Resident census, summed over the days
- Weekend nurse hours (job codes 5 to 12)
- Weekend nurse aide hours (job codes 10 to 12)
- Weekend resident census, summed
- Days with residents and no RN hours
How this is calculated
Citation
CMS. Design for Care Compare, Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System: Technical Users' Guide, September 2026: Staffing Domain (PBJ job codes, hours per resident day over the MDS census, the six exclusion criteria) and Scoring Exceptions. Read the source ↗
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