PACS Group, Inc. (PACS)

Post-acute care operator, 47,455 employees, 58% clinicians. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 34 of the 36 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing counts its clinicians and support staff and its facilities (a), all post-acute care in the U.S., so one nursing care pattern carries the whole workforce.

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, 21% people work and 59% 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

47,455 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). All 321 facilities are in 17 states and the headquarters in Utah, so the whole workforce is in the U.S.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 47,455 employees working across 321 post-acute care facilities in 17 states and at our corporate headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 47,455 employees at 321 post-acute care facilities in 17 states and the Salt Lake City headquarters; 27,696 clinicians (about 3,750 RNs including directors of nursing, 6,806 LPNs, 17,140 CNAs); 19,759 in non-clinical and administrative functions, including 256 facility administrators and 25 senior living executive directors; 6,313 represented by unions.

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.

• The Ensign Group, Inc. (ENSG, 46,000 employees)15% now, 20% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

6 sentences in the filing name AI. Six sentences: the evolving regulatory framework for AI, machine learning and automated decision-making technologies, which the company says may affect its business and the operation of its AI Technologies.

• “Our business may be affected by the evolving regulatory framework for AI Technologies.”
• “The regulatory framework for artificial intelligence ("AI"), machine learning, and automated decision-making technologies (collectively, "AI Technologies") is rapidly evolving as many federal and state government bodies and agencies have introduced or are currently considering additional laws and regulations.”
• “Additionally, existing laws and regulations may be interpreted in ways that would affect the operation of our AI Technologies.”
• “It is possible that new laws and regulations will be adopted, or that existing laws and regulations may be interpreted in ways that would limit our ability to use AI Technologies for our business, or require us to change the way we use AI Technologies in a manner that negatively affects the performance of our services and the way in which we use AI Technologies.”
• “Further, the cost to comply with such laws, regulations, or decisions and/or guidance interpreting existing laws, could be significant and would increase our operating expenses (such as by imposing additional reporting obligations regarding our use of AI Technologies).”

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 20240median 4
• Fiscal 20256median 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.

Limits of this reading

• Headquarters staff are not counted separately from the 19,759 administrative and support staff, so they stay inside the nursing care pattern (rule 6).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0002001184-26-000005, 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.