The 2007 National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS) is one in a continuing series of nationally representative sample surveys of U.S. home health and hospice agencies. It is designed to provide descriptive information on home health and hospice agencies, their staffs, their services, and their patients. NHHCS was first conducted in 1992 and was repeated in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000, and most recently in 2007.
- Home Health and Hospice Care Agencies Fact Sheet [PDF - 325 KB]
- Home Health Care Patients and Hospice Care Discharges Fact Sheet [PDF - 435 KB]
National Home Health Aide Survey
The first national probability survey of home health aides, was designed to provide national estimates of home health aides employed by agencies that provide home health and/or hospice care.
What's New
Publications
- An Overview of Home Health Aides: United States, 2007 [PDF - 569 KB] (5/2011)
- Home Health Care and Discharged Hospice Care Patients: United States, 2000 and 2007 [PDF - 416 KB] (4/2011)
- Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Hospice: The National Home and Hospice Care Survey: United States, 2007 [PDF - 327 KB] (1/2011)
- Use of Advance Directives in Long-term Care Populations (1/2011)
- Comparison of Home Health and Hospice Care Agencies by Organizational Characteristics and Services Provided: United States, 2007 (11/2010) [PDF - 286 KB]
- Electronic Medical Record Adoption and Use in Home Health and Hospice (9/2010)
Announcements
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Corrections to the Technical Notes for the 2007 NHHCS Medication Public-Use File ─ Changes to selected category IDs in Multum [PDF - 76 KB] (2/2011)
Contact Us:
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Long-term Care Statistics Branch
Division of Health Care Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Road
Hyattsville, MD 20782 - (301) 458-4747
- cdcinfo@cdc.gov
