A Study of Stroke Post-Acute Care Costs and Outcomes: Final Report
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Assessing Home Health Care Quality for Post-Acute and Chronically Ill Patients: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers Engaged in Health Information Exchange: Final Report
Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers Engaged in Health Information Exchange: Final Report
Executive Summary
Colene Byrne, Ph.D. Westat
Michelle Dougherty, MA, RHIA AHIMA Foundation
October 29, 2013
What Factors Affect Residential Care Facility Charges?
What Factors Affect Residential Care Facility Charges?
Executive Summary
September 2014
Sarita L. Karon, PhD, Joshua M. Wiener, PhD, Angela M. Greene, MS, MBA, Galina Khatutsky, MS, and Ruby Johnson, MA, MS
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Subacute Care: Policy Synthesis and Market Area Analysis
Prepared by Lewin-VHI, Inc .
This study was prepared for the Department of Health and Human Services , Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. November 1, 1995
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PDF Understanding Disparities in Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Research Approaches and Datasets
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State Experiences with Minimum Nursing Staff Ratios for Nursing Facilities: Findings from Case Studies of Eight States
This paper reports on (1) what is known about the status of states' minimum nursing staff ratios and (2) findings from case studies that examine states' experiences with implementing or modifying these standards in a selected number of states. A review of the published and unpublished literature on state standards identified 36 states with establi
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Study of Medicare Home Health Practice Variations: Final Report
The objective of this report is to summarize the findings from the quantitative and qualitative methods used to answer the key study questions. The report provides a description of the states, agencies, and patients that participated in the study. Quantitative data are used to (1) examine the influence of patient, provider, agency, and market/regu
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Trends in Residential Long-Term Care: Use of Nursing Homes and Assisted Living and Characteristics of Facilities and Residents
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. They compare
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State-Initiated Nursing Home Nurse Staffing Ratios: Annotated Review of the Literature
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. The experiences of states that have already grappled with the complexities of setting,
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Using Medicaid to Cover Services for Elderly Persons in Residential Care Settings: State Policy Maker and Stakeholder Views in Six States
To date, there has been little research on how states use Medicaid to pay for services for elderly persons in residential care settings. This report is intended to fill that gap, by describing in depth how six states use their Medicaid programs to fund residential care services for elderly persons. These states are Florida, Minnesota, North Caroli
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The Future Supply of Long-Term Care Workers in Relation to the Aging Baby Boom Generation
One of the challenges facing the U.S. in the 21st Century will be to ensure that individuals throughout their life will have the supports they need and will be treated with dignity. For the growing population of the elderly and people with disabilities, ensuring the adequacy and availability of direct care workers is key to meeting this ideal. As
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Study of the Impact of Monitoring the Health Outcomes for Disabled
This study examines the impact of changes in Medicare home health policy mandated by the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 on satisfaction with care for disabled Medicare beneficiaries. The BBA mandated major changes in home health payment requiring the implementation of a Prospective Payment System (PPS) and an Interim Payment System (IPS) prior
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Toward a National Health Information Infrastructure: A Key Strategy for Improving Quality in Long-Term Care
There has been growing interest in the use of electronic health information systems. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) emphasized as one of the Department's main priorities the use of information technology in health care. In November 2001, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) issued a report to Secretary of
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Understanding Medicaid Home and Community Services: A Primer
This Primer is designed to encourage use of the Medicaid program in a manner that minimizes reliance on institutions and maximizes community integration in a cost-effective manner. Its intended audience is policymakers and others who wish to understand how Medicaid can be used — and is being used — to expand access to a broad range of home a
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State Long-Term Care Reform: Development of Community Care Systems in Six States Final Report
This study examined the approaches used in six states (Arkansas, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Oregon and Wisconsin) to make their long-term care systems more responsive to the needs of older people. According to the study, each of the states was able to expand community-based care services without generating runaway costs in total long-term care spe
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An Analysis of Long-Term Care Reform Proposals
The purpose of this paper is to describe the diverse strategies that have been proposed for long-term care reform (for persons age 65+), and to present a balanced discussion of the points that have been made in support of, and in opposition to, each proposal. What the authors believe is "balanced" may not be perceived to be so by those who advocat
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Case Studies of Electronic Health Records in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
This study focused on electronic health records (EHRs) and information systems used to exchange clinical information across providers. The only clinical information systems that were identified that exchanged information across settings that include PAC/LTC providers were health delivery systems that were highly integrated either because of their
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