Reports

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Important Questions for Hospice in the Next Century

Contents Study Purpose and Design Defining Intermediaries Characteristics of Intermediaries Key Decisions Regarding the Use of Intermediaries Implementation of the Intermediary Function Implementati

By: LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle Derr, Jacquelyn Anderson, Carole Trippe, and Sidnee Paschal

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This report describes how the state of Oregon designed and implemented its Exceptional Needs Care Coordinator (ENCC) function, assesses the extent to which this role is meeting the state's objectives, and discusses design elements that support the state's objectives.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Exception Needs Care Coordinator in the Oregon Health Plan

A Summary of a Meeting Attended by Grantees of the Advancing States' Child Indicator Initiatives Project and the STATES Initiative/Family Support America Project Saint Paul, February 3 & 4, 2000

Contents TANF Policies Summary of Key Findings

INTRODUCTION The Welfare-to-Work (WtW) grants program was created under the 1997 Balanced Budget Act (BBA) to provide job opportunities, employment preparation, and job retention services for welfare recipients who are the hardest to employ.

Prepared for: Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

The Lewin Group, Inc. for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Ronald J. Ozminkowski, Ph.D., Mark W. Smith, Ph.D., Rosanna M. Coffey, Ph.D., Tami L. Mark, Ph.D., Cheryl A. Neslusan, Ph.D., and John Drabek, Ph.D. The MEDSTAT Group  

This article is intended to provide historical perspective on the Federal Government's involvement in the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation as an example of the federal role in consumer direction. Specifically, it describes how previous research and analysis led to DALTCP's interest in sponsoring this social experiment and shaped our thinking about its purpose and design.

The purpose of this report is to provide basic descriptive statistics on the primary informal caregivers of disabled private long-term care insurance policyholders who have accessed long-term care benefits and are living in the community. Also compared are key characteristics of these individuals to informal caregivers of non-privately insured disabled elders. [54 PDF pages]

Ronald J. Ozminkowski, Ph.D., Mark W. Smith, Ph.D., Rosanna M. Coffey, Ph.D., Tami L. Mark, Ph.D., Cheryl A. Neslusan, Ph.D., and John Drabek, Ph.D. The MEDSTAT Group This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-95-0044 between the U.S.

AcknowledgmentsThis report, and its earlier editions, would not have been possible without the substantial support of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics whose member agencies provided data and carefully reviewed relevant sections.

By: The Lewin Group

ForewordPerformance Improvement 2000: Evaluation Activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the sixth annual report to Congress summarizing previous fiscal year evaluation efforts. The purpose of this report is to provide Congress with evaluative information on the Department’s programs, policies, activities, and strategies.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services January 2000 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/icdeltci.pdf (54 PDF pages)

Hosted by Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Providence, December 2 & 3, 1999

Contents Characterizing the Low-Wage Labor Market Policy Interventions Affecting Low-Wage Labor Markets Barriers to Entering the Low-Wage Labor Market Opportunities for Advancement and Benefits in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Catherine Hawes, Ph.D., Miriam Rose, M.Ed., and Charles D. Phillips, Ph.D., M.P.H. Myers Research Institute December 14, 1999 This report was prepared under #HHS-100-94-0024 and #HHS-100-98-0013 between HHS's ASPE/DALTCP and the Research Triangle Institute.

This report presents data from a telephone survey of the administrators of assisted living facilities across the country. These facilities were selected from a national probability sample of all facilities that met the criteria for inclusion in the study. Thus, the findings are representative of the industry as a whole.

PrefaceThis volume was prepared at the Urban Institute, a non-profit non-partisan research organization, for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) of the U.S.

by David M. Smith and Stephen A. Woodbury

by Julia Lane

 by Harry Holzer

by Julia R. Henly

   by Peter Gottschalk

by Gary Burtless

By Burt S. Barnow

By: Julia Isaacs ASPE Staff

By Jared Bernstein and Heidi Hartmann #

JOINT REPORT OF THE HHS Data Council Working Group on Racial and Ethnic Data AND The Data Work Group of the HHS Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health December, 1999

By Mark D. Turner

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly: Results of a National Survey of Facilities

Federal Register: November 3, 1999 [Proposed Rules] [Pages 59918-60065] [DOCID:fr03no99P] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary 45 CFR Parts 160 through 164 Rin: 0991-AB08