DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS The Company — The Ensign Group, Inc. (collectively, Ensign or the Company), is a holding company with no direct operating assets, employees or revenue. The Company's independent operating subsidiaries provide health care services across the post-acute care continuum, engaged in the ownership, acquisition, development and leasing of skilled nursing, senior living and other healthcare-related properties and other ancillary businesses. As of December 31, 2022, the Company's independent operating subsidiaries operated 271 facilities and other ancillary operations located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. The Company's independent operating subsidiaries have a collective capacity of approximately 28,100 operational skilled nursing beds and 3,000 senior living units. As of December 31, 2022, the Company's independent operating subsidiaries operated 192 facilities under long-term lease arrangements, and had options to purchase 11 of those 192 facilities. The Company's real estate portfolio includes 108 owned real estate properties, which included 79 facilities operated and managed by the Company's independent operating subsidiaries, 29 senior living operations leased to and operated by The Pennant Group, Inc. (Pennant) as part of the spin-off transaction in October 2019, and the Service Center location. Of those 29 senior living operations, one is located on the same real estate property as a skilled nursing facility that the Company owns and operates. Certain of the Company’s wholly-owned independent subsidiaries, collectively referred to as the Service Center, provide specific accounting, payroll, human resources, information technology, legal, risk management and other centralized services to the other operating subsidiaries through contractual relationships with such subsidiaries. The Company also has a wholly-owned captive insurance subsidiary that provides some claims-made coverage to the Company’s operating subsidiaries for general and professional liabilities, as well as coverage for certain workers’ compensation insurance liabilities. In January of 2022, the Company formed a captive real estate investment trust (REIT), which owns and manages its real estate business, called Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT, Inc. (Standard Bearer). The Company expects the REIT structure will provide it with an efficient vehicle for future acquisitions of properties that could be operated by Ensign affiliates or other third parties. Refer to Note 7, Standard Bearer for additional information on Standard Bearer. Each of the Company's affiliated operations are operated by separate, wholly-owned, independent subsidiaries that have their own management, employees and assets. References herein to the consolidated “Company” and “its” assets and activities in this Annual Report is not meant to imply, nor should it be construed as meaning that The Ensign Group, Inc. has direct operating assets, employees or revenue, or that any of the subsidiaries, are operated by The Ensign Group, Inc.

The Company — The Ensign Group, Inc. (collectively, Ensign or the Company), is a holding company with no direct operating assets, employees or revenue. The Company's independent operating subsidiaries provide health care services across the post-acute care continuum, engaged in the ownership, acquisition, development and leasing of skilled nursing, senior living and other healthcare-related properties and other ancillary businesses. As of December 31, 2022, the Company's independent operating subsidiaries operated 271 facilities and other ancillary operations located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. The Company's independent operating subsidiaries have a collective capacity of approximately 28,100 operational skilled nursing beds and 3,000 senior living units. As of December 31, 2022, the Company's independent operating subsidiaries operated 192 facilities under long-term lease arrangements, and had options to purchase 11 of those 192 facilities. The Company's real estate portfolio includes 108 owned real estate properties, which included 79 facilities operated and managed by the Company's independent operating subsidiaries, 29 senior living operations leased to and operated by The Pennant Group, Inc. (Pennant) as part of the spin-off transaction in October 2019, and the Service Center location. Of those 29 senior living operations, one is located on the same real estate property as a skilled nursing facility that the Company owns and operates.

Certain of the Company’s wholly-owned independent subsidiaries, collectively referred to as the Service Center, provide specific accounting, payroll, human resources, information technology, legal, risk management and other centralized services to the other operating subsidiaries through contractual relationships with such subsidiaries. The Company also has a wholly-owned captive insurance subsidiary that provides some claims-made coverage to the Company’s operating subsidiaries for general and professional liabilities, as well as coverage for certain workers’ compensation insurance liabilities.

In January of 2022, the Company formed a captive real estate investment trust (REIT), which owns and manages its real estate business, called Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT, Inc. (Standard Bearer). The Company expects the REIT structure will provide it with an efficient vehicle for future acquisitions of properties that could be operated by Ensign affiliates or other third parties. Refer to Note 7, Standard Bearer for additional information on Standard Bearer.

Each of the Company's affiliated operations are operated by separate, wholly-owned, independent subsidiaries that have their own management, employees and assets. References herein to the consolidated “Company” and “its” assets and activities in this Annual Report is not meant to imply, nor should it be construed as meaning that The Ensign Group, Inc. has direct operating assets, employees or revenue, or that any of the subsidiaries, are operated by The Ensign Group, Inc.