Selling a skilled nursing facility in West Virginia

West Virginia at a glance

West Virginia has 123 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facilities with 10,717 certified beds, and on average 90.0% of those beds are occupied, above the national average of 80.3%.

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

What a buyer reads first in West Virginia

The numbers a buyer pulls before the first call, for the typical West Virginia 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 West Virginia

Occupancy. 90.0% of West Virginia'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.

Payer mix and the Medicaid rate. Medicaid pays for 81% of resident days in the median West Virginia 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. West Virginia's Medicaid rate files are on SNFRadar.

Revenue and margin. Net patient revenue runs $445 per patient day in the median West Virginia filing, above the national $373, and the median net margin is 7.6% against 3.6%. Buyers here can price on the cash flow a building already earns.

Staffing. West Virginia's buildings average 3.66 nurse staffing hours per resident per day, fewer than the national 3.86, and nurse turnover runs 44.1% a year, close to the national 45.8%. Agency use is the line buyers check next.

Inspection record. 40% of West Virginia buildings are rated four or five stars by Medicare and 39% one or two, against 40% and 41% nationally. Every buyer reads the last three inspections before pricing; each building's are on its SNFRadar page.

Size and ownership type. The average West Virginia building has 87 certified beds, against 107 nationally. 80% are for-profit, 17% non-profit and 2% government, and 76% are part of a chain.

Where the beds are

West Virginia'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. West Virginia'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