National HealthCare Corporation (NHC)
Skilled nursing centers with home care and hospice. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 91 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
15%
End of 2028
20%
Employees, annual report
15,278
Leading staffing pattern
Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now15%
- End of 202719%
- End of 202820%
- End of 203020%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 79%
- Becomes checking a model's work 16%
- Handed over with lighter checks 3%
The filing states 15,278 full-time and part-time partners, employed mainly through its administrative services contractor, across 80 skilled nursing centers, home care and hospice agencies and assisted living communities.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 15% now, 19% at the end of 2027, 20% at the end of 2028, 20% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 20% desk work, 23% people work and 57% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 79% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 16% becomes checking a model's work and 3% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
15,278 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated as a count; the centers and agencies the filing describes are in the United States.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 15,278 full-time and part-time employees (partners), mainly through our Administrative Services Contractor (National Health Corporation).”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) | 75% | The filing names its 80 health care center administrators and its Administrator in Training course for skilled nursing facility administrators (b), and competes for nurses, technicians and aides, so skilled nursing facilities carry most of the workforce, the share by description (c). |
| Home Health Care Services | 15% | The company's homecare and hospice agencies serve patients at home, read at home health care services by description (c) since the filing counts no employees by kind of center. |
| Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly | 10% | The assisted living and independent living communities beside the health care centers are read at assisted living facilities by description (c); the filing counts employees in one total. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 15,278 full-time and part-time partners employed mainly through the Administrative Services Contractor, National Health Corporation; no partner under a collective bargaining agreement; 59 of 80 center administrators are graduates of the Administrator in Training course.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- PACS Group, Inc. (PACS, 47,455 employees)15% now, 20% by 2028
- The Ensign Group, Inc. (ENSG, 46,000 employees)15% now, 20% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names artificial intelligence in no sentence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 15,278 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 14,962 | 2025-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 13,123 | 2024-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 12,355 | 2023-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 12,965 | 2022-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 13,432 | 2021-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 14,881 | 2020-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | not read | 2019-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 14,850 | 2018-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 14,450 | 2017-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 13,225 | 2016-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 13,050 | 2015-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 11,500 | 2014-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 12,570 | 2013-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 12,670 | 2012-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 12,760 | 2011-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 12,800 | 2010-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 12,000 | 2009-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 11,000 | 2008-03-17 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 11,000 | 2007-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 11,000 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 12,000 | 2005-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 12,000 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 12,000 | 2003-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 13,000 | 2002-03-12 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 11,700 | 2001-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 13,000 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 16,017 | 1999-03-24 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 16,000 | 1998-03-31 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The partners are employed mainly through the Administrative Services Contractor, National Health Corporation, and are recorded as the filing counts them (rule 8).
- No count by kind of center: the split between skilled nursing, home care and hospice, and assisted living is by description (c), with the 80 health care centers the one stated count.
- The data service's segment table lists the insurance subsidiaries' lines and was not used.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001437749-26-005910, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of National HealthCare Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 15% now and 20% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce National HealthCare Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does National HealthCare Corporation employ?
- 15,278 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up National HealthCare Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities); by those patterns the work is about 20% desk work, 23% people work and 57% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does National HealthCare Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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