Selling a skilled nursing facility in Georgia

Georgia at a glance

Georgia has 356 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facilities with 39,494 certified beds, and on average 80.4% of those beds are occupied, above the national average of 80.3%.

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

What a buyer reads first in Georgia

The numbers a buyer pulls before the first call, for the typical Georgia 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).

What moves value in Georgia

Occupancy. 80.4% of Georgia's certified beds are occupied, in line with the national 80.3%, so a building's own census against its county's is what separates it.

Payer mix and the Medicaid rate. Medicaid pays for 73% of resident days in the median Georgia building, more than the national 66%. That makes the state's Medicaid rate method the biggest single input to most buildings' value, and the first thing a buyer models. Georgia's Medicaid rate files are on SNFRadar.

Revenue and margin. Net patient revenue runs $306 per patient day in the median Georgia filing, below the national $373, and the median net margin is 1.6% against 3.6%. With thin margins common, buyers price on what they can fix, so a seller who can show where the costs sit gets paid for it.

Staffing. Georgia's buildings average 3.56 nurse staffing hours per resident per day, fewer than the national 3.86, and nurse turnover runs 46.0% a year, close to the national 45.8%. Agency use is the line buyers check next.

Inspection record. 29% of Georgia buildings are rated four or five stars by Medicare and 50% one or two, against 40% and 41% nationally. With low ratings common here, a clean inspection record stands out, and buyers pay for it.

Size and ownership type. The average Georgia building has 111 certified beds, against 107 nationally. 69% are for-profit, 26% non-profit and 4% government, and 69% are part of a chain.

Where the beds are

Georgia'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. Georgia'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.

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