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The impetus for the enactment of the Maryland quality improvement programs in 2000 as explained by the provider associations and the survey agency appears to have been based on a series of events and activities that occurred both within and outside the state in the preceding ten years. Beginning in 1989, deplorable conditions existing in a Marylan

The Best Practices program, the study on consumer satisfaction and the Minimum Nurse Staffing Ratios were all included in the Omnibus Legislation (LD 42) signed into law (PL 49, chapter 731, part BBBB) on 4/25/00. This legislation was constructed based on input from stakeholders on what they felt were the most pressing issues in long-term care. On

Except for the Quality-Based Inspections program, discussion participants did not identify any programs noted as unsuccessful or at risk of discontinuation. The department places great importance on making information available to consumers. There were no plans to add additional items (e.g., staffing information or MDS quality indicators) to the N

Although there was agreement that nursing facilities appreciated recognition for good performance, there was concern expressed by the Ombudsman that these awards gave consumers a false sense of security. In their experience, they noted that consumers seeing a Best Practice icon on the website or a Deficiency Free Certificate assumed that the facil

Staff within the Department of Inspections and Appeals, Health Facilities Division, is involved in the management as well as the day-to-day operation of the various quality improvement programs. One Bureau Chief is responsible for routing of any questions (2-6 questions per day) that come through the web site to the appropriate person for a respon

The Nursing Home Report Card, Best Practices Program, Joint Surveyor/Provider Training, Deficiency-Free Certificates and Survey Questionnaires are funded through a combination of federal and state dollars, with 73 percent of budgeted costs paid by federal funds. Only the costs for the Governor's Award for Quality Care ($5,000) and the Quality-Base

This section includes a brief description of each of Iowa's quality improvement programs followed by a discussion of program funding, governance and the management and staffing structure. The following quality improvement programs were reviewed:

Although it does not have a technical assistance program, Iowa has a large number of innovative programs intended to improve nursing home quality.

No formal evaluation of Florida's quality improvement programs has been performed to date. AHCA staff reported that they are interested in evaluating the success of the programs, particularly the TA component. However, because the programs have been operating only a short time, it is not yet possible to evaluate their impact. Because many of the p

The cost of implementing and expanding the telehealth program was identified by EMHC CFO as a challenge. The home care agency invests a significant amount in the equipment (for example, the general cost of an in-home telehealth unit is approximately $3,500). Currently the EMHC has 79 units with an average of 65 deployed in a patient's home at any

We interviewed 1,138 staff members of board and care homes. Of these staff members, about one-third were facility operators who provided direct care to residents (70 percent of all operators), thus they also completed the operator questionnaires. We will refer to these as “direct care” operators in this discussion to distinguish them from othe

Each state implemented a different approach to improving care coordination for Medicaid beneficiaries with behavioral health conditions. Despite these diversities, state Medicaid officials, managed care representatives, providers, and consumer representatives in all states identified similar facilitators, challenges, and lessons learned for improv

Operators in 490 board and care facilities completed two questionnaires about their facilities’ characteristics and policies. These data suggest that there was enormous diversity among places known as board and care homes in size, price, setting, service mix, resident mix, and available services. This chapter presents our findings on these facil

The Commission considered several ways in which its medical-record recommendations might be implemented and enforced. The alternatives considered ranged from a wholly voluntary approach to Federal legislation which, like the 1974 Drug Abuse and Alcoholism statutes, 49 would make compliance with the recommendations a requirement attached to the di

A series of efforts at parity legislation has also occurred at the State level (Hennessy and Stephens, 1997). Some States target their parity legislation narrowly to include only people with severe mental disorders, while others cover a broader range of mental illnesses that may also include substance abuse disorders. Experiences with parity polic

The sample size and broad coverage of mental retardation facilities and residents in the Institutional Population Component of NMES will yield much information of value regarding the residential living arrangements of persons with mental retardation and related conditions. At the same time the study's sample frame limitations, and thereby its samp

The simplest alternative procedure for using the Institutional Population Component statistics to obtain more realistic estimates of the populations of residential facilities for people with mental retardation, particularly the smaller ones, is to in effect reweight its sample to reflect known populations of different types of facilities.

Table 5 and Table 6 present basic administrative statistics for ICF-MR and noncertified facilities by type of operation and facility size. The statistics presented on facility capacity, current residents and certified capacity have the limitations discussed above. Proportion of Capacity Occupied

Part 2 of this report examines the data obtained from the Facility and Baseline (Resident) questionnaires on the "mental retardation facilities" in the Institutional Population Component of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey. These were the only data yet available at the time of these analyses. Subsequent data will permit examination of

The success of any effort to obtain an unbiased, representative, sample of facilities and their residents is dependent on comprehensive identification of all (or as close to all as possible) facilities in the universe of facilities of the type being studied. Because most sample studies attempt to make population estimates by weighting sample membe