The American Health Care Association presents national quality awards annually. In 1998 North Carolina nursing homes received 25% of all the awards presented.
The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association has the only statewide peer review quality improvement program in the nation.
Eighty-two percent (82%) of North Carolina's nursing home residents receive some assistance from Medicaid. (NC Division of Aging)
By 2025 there will be in excess of two million people ages 65 and older in North Carolina. They will make up 21.4% of the total population-slightly larger than the percentage of children 18 and under. (NC Division of Aging)
North Carolina was the first state to license nurses, in 1903.
