

Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report - Section 2. Montana
Overview
Montana statues require adult day care licensure through the Department of Health and Human Services. Regulations for licensing are described in this profile.
The Department of Health and Human Services provides adult day care under the Physically Disabled and Elderly Waiver and the Developmentally Disabled Waiver through licensed p


Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report - Section 2. Louisiana
Overview
Adult day health care (ADHC) in Louisiana is regulated by the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH), Bureau of Community Supports and Services (BCSS) under Title 50 of the Louisiana Administrative Code . Providers are licensed to provide service to Medicaid adult day health care waiver clients, to private pay clients, and under p


Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.. Appendix: The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
Studies
Summary of Cost Offset Studies
Intervention Studies


Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.. Administrative Data Linkages
Perhaps the most valuable use of HMIS data beyond its reporting functions is the data capacity it creates for longitudinal, multisite, multisystem research. The Congressional directive authorizing the HMIS initiative refers to the need to use HMIS data to determine if people served in homeless assistance programs are accessing mainstream social we


Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.. Case Management and Other Service Interventions
Two experimental studies from St. Louis (Wolff et al., 1997) and Baltimore (Lehman et al., 1999) examined the cost offsets associated with providing case management services to people who are homeless and have a severe mental illness. In the St. Louis study, the authors found comparable housing outcomes when comparing two assertive community treat


Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.. Studies of the Costs of Homelessness
Researchers and others have been interested in documenting the costs of homelessness because it is believed that demonstrating high costs will inspire investments in alternative housing and services. Indeed, as will be discussed in the next section, several investments in alternative housing and service models have included evaluations to examine


Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.
The authors summarize the progress made in the past decade toward making homeless assistance programs more accountable to funders, consumers, and the public. They observe that research on the costs of homelessness and cost offsets associated with intervention programs has been limited to people who are homeless with severe mental illness. But this
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Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report - Section 2
Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report
SECTION 2. STATE REGULATORY PROFILES
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Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report - Section 1. Licensure
States vary in their approach to licensure, primarily licensing providers of specific ADS programs or operators of specific types of facilities or centers. Some states license a single program; others cover two or more program types under a single licensing category; some have separate licenses for specific types of programs in addition to basic l


Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report - Section 1
Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report
SECTION 1. OVERVIEW OF ADULT DAY SERVICES REGULATIONS
This section provides a brief overview of states' approaches to regulating ADS providers in key areas and highlights similarities and differences among them.
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Advance Care Planning and Public Engagement. B. Clinical and Provider Impacts on EOL Decision Making
As recent as 50 years ago, the location of death for the majority of Americans was the home setting.


Advance Care Planning and Public Engagement. II. Managing Our Miracles and the Emergence of a Social Consensus
The management of the effective use of penicillin in the early 1940s is often described as one of the most important moments in the history of medicine. 14 This turning point in medical treatment provided physicians the capacity to intervene routinely in the “natural process” by eradicating lethal infection. The effect was to elevate the “


Advance Care Planning and Public Engagement
Myra J. Christopher and John G. Carney
Center for Practical Bioethics
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Predictors of Job Satisfaction and Intent to Leave among Home Health Workers: An Analysis of the National Home Health Aide Survey. Introduction
After informal caregivers, home health and home care workers (referred to in this article as home health workers or home health aides [HHAs]) provide the majority of hands-on, personal care services to older adults and younger people with disabilities (Kaye, Chapman, Newcomer, & Harrington, 2006; Stone, 2004). These workers tend to have freque


Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Emerging Practices From the Field. Summary of Key Findings
Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment, and Services


Children’s Health Coverage on the 5th Anniversary of CHIPRA. IV. Innovations Introduced by CHIPRA
CHIPRA increased CHIP funding and gave states new flexibility to expand eligibility and increase participation rates among eligible children. CHIPRA authorized states to use Express Lane Eligibility (ELE), under which state CHIP or Medicaid agencies can use another public program’s eligibility findings to make them eligible for health coverage


The Feasibility of Using Electronic Health Data for Research on Small Populations. Organizational Conditions Required for Research Combining Multiple Data Sources
Because of the previously mentioned limitations with using data from a single organization’s EHR for research, the ability to combine EHR data with other electronic data sources is often needed to strengthen study results, particularly for small populations. Combining EHR data across institutions can allow for a larger sample size to increase th


The Feasibility of Using Electronic Health Data for Research on Small Populations. Technical Conditions Required for Research Using EHR and Other Electronic Health Data
In order to use information in EHRs for research, it is first necessary for a number of technical conditions to be in place, such as the ability to extract and format data for research, as well as to address issues with missing data and data quality. As with claims data, the information in EHRs was not collected for research purposes.