Nursing Homes & Facilities

Alan White, Ph.D., Barbara Manard, Ph.D., Deborah Deitz, BSN, Terry Moore, MPH, RN, Donna Hurd, MSN, Christine Landino, MSW, MPH, Jennie Harvell, M.Ed. Abt Associates, Inc.

The purpose of this project is to inform federal and state policymakers about what can be learned about the implementation and enforcement of state minimum nursing staff ratios for nursing homes, and related issues, such as labor shortages and resident casemix.

    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services   State Nursing Home Quality Improvement Programs: Site Visit and Synthesis Report Executive Summary

Brenda C. Spillman, Senior Research AssociatKorbin Liu, Principal Research AssociateCarey McGilliard, Research Assistant Urban Institute PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2002/rltct.pdf (34 PDF pages)

In this paper, the authors use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, which represents the full Medicare population, regardless of living arrangement, to describe characteristics of elderly residents of both types of facility and the characteristics of the facilities. Our sample is limited to beneficiaries age 65 or older.

This paper--which is one of a series of Appendices which will be included in the demonstration's final report-- begins with a description of Wisconsin's Homecoming Project, followed by a summary of the program's results.

This paper — which is one of a series of Appendices included in the demonstration's final report — describes a case study of the Michigan Nursing Home Transition Demonstration program.

This report compares the medication use of Medicare beneficiaries living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Descriptions of Medicare use include mean number of drug mentions per month of stay (scheduled and PRN drugs), and prevalence and duration of therapy by major drug classes.

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