Selling a skilled nursing facility in Alaska

Alaska at a glance

Alaska has 20 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facilities with 815 certified beds, and on average 90.9% of those beds are occupied, above the national average of 80.3%.

Source: CMS Provider Information file, August 2026. The full Alaska picture, rates and every building are on SNFRadar, the market record we built and publish free.

What a buyer reads first in Alaska

The numbers a buyer pulls before the first call, for the typical Alaska building against the nation. Your own building's are on its SNFRadar page.

Sources: CMS Provider Information file, August 2026 (occupancy, staffing, turnover, star ratings: averages across certified buildings); Medicare cost reports (full-year filings), as SNFRadar compares them (medians, the same figures each building's SNFRadar page is compared against). Fewer than 20 Alaska buildings filed a full-year Medicare cost report, too few for a fair median, so the cost-report figures are left out.

What moves value in Alaska

Occupancy. 90.9% of Alaska's certified beds are occupied, above the national 80.3%. Full buildings are the norm here, so a buyer will ask why yours is not, or price in the referral strength if it is.

The Medicaid rate. Alaska sets its own Medicaid rate method, and for most nursing homes it decides much of the value. Alaska's rate files are on SNFRadar.

Staffing. Alaska's buildings average 6.69 nurse staffing hours per resident per day, more than the national 3.86, and nurse turnover runs 48.3% a year against 45.8%. Buyers treat agency use and turnover as a cost they will inherit, so a stable staff is worth showing early.

Inspection record. 45% of Alaska buildings are rated four or five stars by Medicare and 20% one or two, against 40% and 41% nationally. With strong ratings common here, a weak one stands out, and buyers will ask for the plan of correction before they price.

Size and ownership type. The average Alaska building has 41 certified beds, against 107 nationally. 30% are for-profit, 40% non-profit and 30% government, and 35% are part of a chain.

Where the beds are

Alaska's largest counties by certified beds. Each opens that county's buildings on SNFRadar.

How a sale works

1. A first call. What you want from the sale, and when. No listing, no blast.
2. A value from the record. Your building's own numbers and the trades around it. How valuation works
3. Vetted buyers under confidentiality, bidding against each other, not against you.
4. Letter of intent, then the purchase agreement and the operations transfer agreement. The full process
5. Change of ownership. Alaska's licensure filings plus Medicare and Medicaid, timed so billing does not stop. CHOW and Medicaid

Our recent closings

All five closings, with the press coverage they drew.

Questions owners ask