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Nursing Home Rates Stay Steady in 2008

According to a just-released Survey of Nursing Home & Assisted Living Costs by MetLife, average private nursing home room rates remained unchanged nationally from 2007. Semi-private nursing home room rates, increased 1.1% to $69,715/yr, while the average Assisted living rates increased by 2.1% to $36,372/year.