Reports

Contents Purpose and Methods Findings Strategies Related to Obtaining Information About Grant Opportunities, Deciding to Apply, and Preparing Grant Applications Strategies for Grant Review Processes

Prepared by: Westat 1650 Research Boulevard Rockville, MD 20850 Contract No. 233-02-087

Report authors : Amanda Honeycutt, Laurel Clayton, Olga Khavjou, Eric Finkelstein, Malavika Prabhu, Jonathan Blitstein, W. Douglas Evans, and Jeanette Renaud

This report discusses the current and future availability of professional social workers in long-term care settings. Recommendations for addressing any identified future shortage areas, including cooperative strategies involving federal agencies, professional associations, and school of social work are also addressed. [31 PDF pages]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

MEDSTAT February 24, 2006 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-03-0022 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and MEDSTAT.

This report describes the first phase of the state/federal Long-Term Care Awareness Campaign pilot program to increase awareness of the need to plan ahead for long-term care. The Campaign was operated in five states early in 2005.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Pilot Long-Term Care Awareness Campaign: Phase I Final Report MEDSTAT February 24, 2006 PDF Version

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Strengthening the financing of intensive home and community services for youth with serious emotional disorders (SEDs) brings into play a complex set of policy issues, regulatory constraints, and payment mechanisms. This report presents critical background information on these topics.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The use of negotiated risk agreements (NRAs) is a new topic in a relatively new long-term care setting. This study was designed to inform state policymakers, assisted living providers, and key stakeholders about NRAs and issues related to their use.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Randall R. Bovbjerg and Pablo Aliaga The Urban Institute, Health Policy Center Josephine Gittler

This report describes state medical boards' disciplinary processes, assessed measurement of disciplinary performance, and identified practices that medical boards believe effectively improve their functioning. Finding ways to assess medical boards' performance is important because states have given them a key role in safeguarding medical quality and patient safety.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This report is the second of two prepared as part of a project to better understand the size and characteristics of the long-term care population in all settings.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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In 2004, Congress requested that HHS conduct a study on the shortage of direct support professionals (DSPs) supporting persons with intellectual disabilities and other developmental disabilities (ID/DD), including an examination of the root causes associated with high vacancy and turnover rates, and an examination of the impact this shortage may be having on services for people with ID/DD.

This report provides a technical assessment of the utility of data from the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, specifically the form 5500 data, to examine the receipt of employer provided health care when merged with data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics data program.

Chapter I - Program Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human ServicesThis Performance Improvement 2006 report presents to Congress a comprehensive summary of evaluation projects completed by the Department, The Office of the Secretary, and agencies comprising the Department, engage in extensive evaluation activities;

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation January 2006 PDF Version

The purpose of this project was to develop, pilot, and disseminate a set of instruments for national surveys to measure the use of assistive technology and the environments in which they are used. The project focused on older adults living in the community.

Vicki A. Freedman, Ph.D. Polisher Research Institute Emily M. Agree, Ph.D.Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Lisa Landsberg, M.Ed.Polisher Research Institute December 2005 PDF Version (124 PDF pages)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Development of an Assistive Technology and Environmental Assessment Instrument for National Surveys: Final Report Part I. Recommended Modules and Instrument Development Process

The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages are calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1 through September 30 of the indicated year.

Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures, FY 2007 Federal Register: November 30, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 229)][Notices][Page 71856-71857]From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov][DOCID:fr30no05-76] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESOffice of the Secretary

This paper describes the work that will be undertaken to measure financial and non-financial benefits, and identify to whom the benefits accrue. [1 PDF page]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Evaluation Design of the Business Case of Health Information Technology in Long-Term Care: Project Summary Booz Allen Hamilton November 2005 PDF Version

This paper describes the work that will examine how Health Information Exchange (HIE) is occurring between health delivery systems and unaffiliated post-acute and long-term care settings and factors that promote or hinder the exchange. [1 PDF page]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Information Exchange in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care: Project Summary University of Colorado November 2005 PDF Version

This paper examines the combined effects of drug plan risk the first year of Medicare part D implementation of the combination of reinsurance, risk-adjustment and risk-corridors

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in close collaboration with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), contracted with NORC to conduct an assessment of information technology use in ambulatory care health centers whose funding is administered by HRSA's Bureau of Primary Healthcare (BPHC).

Prepared by: NORC at the University of Chicago Dan Gaylin, M.P.A. Sidra Goldman Alana Ketchel Adil Moiduddin, M.P.P. October 2005 This report is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/sp/chc

Prepared by: Judith Wooldridge Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Genevieve Kenney The Urban Institute Christopher Trenholm Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. with Lisa Dubay The Urban Institute Ian Hill The Urban Institute Myoung Kim Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Lorenzo Moreno Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

This literature review first summarizes the current knowledge of physician practice in nursing homes and identifies gaps in the knowledge base. It then presents the physician practice models applied in nursing homes, including integrated and managed care delivery models, and describes the characteristics of physicians who practice in nursing homes.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Contents Methodology Pass-through and Disregard Results Distributing All FTRO Child Support Collections to Former Welfare Families Effects on Administrative Costs Conclusion