Home Health Care
Data are for the U.S.
Home health agencies
- Number of home health agencies: 12,200 (2016)
- Proportion of agencies with for-profit ownership: 80.6% (2016)
Patients
- Number of patients who received and ended care any time during the year: 4.5 million (2015)
Related FastStats
- Adult Day Services Centers
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Hospice Care
- Nursing Home Care
- Older Person’s Health
- Residential Care Communities
More Data
- Long-Term Care Providers and Services Users in the United States: Data From the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers, 2015-2016 pdf icon[PDF – 1.1 MB]
- Long-Term Care Providers and Services Users in the United States-State Estimates Supplement: National Study of Long-Term Care Providers, 2015-2016 pdf icon[PDF – 3.4 MB]
Page last reviewed: January 21, 2022
Content source: CDC/National Center for Health Statistics