CareScout's 2025 Cost of Care Survey puts the New York State median at $511 per day ($15,528/month, $186,333/year) for a semi-private room and $550 per day ($16,729/month, $200,750/year) for a private room, both based on 365 days of care. These are statewide figures; CareScout does not publish a separate Long Island-specific nursing home rate.
The detail behind the number
Nursing home costs are typically presented as daily rates because that's how facilities bill, but translated to an annual basis it clarifies just how large the expense is relative to most retirement income or savings: over $186,000 a year for a semi-private room and over $200,000 for a private room, statewide. These figures rose from the 2024 survey's New York medians of $484 per day for semi-private and $512 per day for private, meaning both categories increased year over year, semi-private by roughly 5.6 percent and private by about 7.4 percent. Because these are state medians rather than Long Island-specific numbers, and Nassau and Suffolk are generally among the higher-cost regions of the state for most goods and services, families should treat $511 to $550 per day as a baseline reference point rather than an exact quote, and confirm current daily rates directly with specific facilities during the admissions process.
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