CMS NPPES recorded 66 deactivations in the Nurses segment during the week of August 10–16, 2026. Names were retrievable for 65 records, while New York led the state rankings with 8 deactivations. The records covered 62 individuals and 3 organizations, indicating that the week’s activity was primarily associated with individual nurse records.
New York Leads State Activity
New York posted 8 deactivations, followed by California with 6 and Colorado with 5. Texas and Wisconsin each recorded 4 deactivations. Nevada and Florida followed with 3 deactivations apiece, while Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Washington, D.C., Arizona, Illinois, Louisiana and Maryland each recorded 2 deactivations.
The geographic pattern is distributed across a broad set of markets, but the largest counts are concentrated in states with sizable healthcare workforces and multiple care settings. New York’s lead was not limited to one city: New York and Brooklyn each appeared with 2 deactivations, while other records came from Carthage and additional locations. Las Vegas, Omaha and Washington also each registered 2 deactivations. State totals describe registry activity rather than the number of nurses leaving practice in a given market.
Registered Nurses Top Taxonomies
Registered Nurse was the leading retired taxonomy among named providers, with 14 records, or 22% of the named-provider taxonomy mix. Nurse Practitioner followed with 11 records, representing 17%. Licensed Practical Nurse, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and Family Nurse Practitioner each accounted for 8 records, or 12% apiece.
Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse contributed 5 records, or 8%. School Registered Nurse accounted for 2 records, or 3%, while Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Home Health Registered Nurse and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner each appeared once, at 2% apiece. The mix spans general nursing, advanced practice, anesthesia, behavioral health and specialized community settings, rather than pointing to a single occupational segment.
Administrative Status, Not Practice Finding
CMS’s total includes one record whose identifying information was scrubbed; the named subset reflects Hipa.ai’s public-source name cache captured before CMS removed the record’s name, address and taxonomy. An NPI deactivation is an administrative registry change and does not by itself establish a license action, malpractice event or cessation of practice. Records may be retired during routine maintenance, after a provider changes organizations, or when a nurse obtains a new NPI. The week’s data therefore measures registry churn and re-registration patterns, not confirmed workforce departures.
