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Largest nursing home companies in Pennsylvania
There are 650 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Pennsylvania. The ten largest operators control 201 of them — 31% of the state.
This ranking counts what each company actually controls. CMS files list operators as separate legal entities, so a group running 37 buildings can appear as 34 unrelated companies. The rankings you find elsewhere count the paperwork; this one counts the buildings.
| Rank | Company | Pennsylvania nursing homes | Legal entities CMS lists | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pico Ar LLC | 37 | 34 | PE |
| 2 | BNV Dynasty LLC | 37 | 10 | Operator |
| 3 | Priority Care Group LLC | 31 | 40 | Operator |
| 4 | Reliant Pro Rehab LLC | 21 | 21 | Operator |
| 5 | Pinnacle Healthcare Solutions Inc | 14 | 2 | Operator |
| 6 | Embassy Healthcare Holdings Inc | 14 | 13 | PE |
| 7 | BH Opco Holdco LLC | 13 | 9 | Operator |
| 8 | Friends Services for the Aging | 13 | 3 | Operator |
| 9 | Western PA Opco Holdings I LLC | 11 | 5 | Operator |
| 10 | Phi | 11 | 10 | Operator |
Pennsylvania nursing home chains and corporations, explained
People search for Pennsylvania nursing home companies in a dozen ways — largest nursing homes, top nursing home chains, nursing home corporations, biggest nursing home groups. They are all asking the same thing: who is actually behind the sign on the building. The answer is in CMS ownership filings, which are public, free, and almost unreadable in raw form.
How this is calculated
Every Medicare-certified nursing home files its owners with CMS. We take those filings, group entities whose facility portfolios overlap into a single corporate family, and count distinct facilities. Entities appearing only as lenders or mortgage holders are excluded — a bank holding paper on a building does not operate it. Full method on the methodology page.
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How many nursing homes are there in Pennsylvania?
650 Medicare-certified nursing homes, per CMS enrollment files.
Who is the largest nursing home operator in Pennsylvania?
PICO AR LLC, with 37 Pennsylvania nursing homes across 34 separate legal entities on file with CMS.
Why do nursing home companies show up under many different names?
Operators commonly file a separate legal entity per facility, plus separate property, management and therapy companies. CMS records each one individually and nothing in the file links them.