Content by Keyword: Nursing Home

This is Release 1 of the Long Term Care-Nursing Home (LTC-NH) Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S) Functional Profile. Based on, and conformant with, the HL7 EHR-S Functional Model (FM) Release 1, February 2007, this document represents the culmination of one year of extensive work by private and public industry representatives and other stakeh

The goal of this study was to describe patterns of Medicaid nursing home utilization for each state and nationally. The authors address three specific research questions in this report: (1) What are the characteristics of people who use Medicaid nursing home services? (2) How do people who use Medicaid nursing home services become eligible for Med

This is the third report in a series describing the findings from stakeholders. The background on the taxonomy development is described in more detail in Report A and it is the expectation of the authors that these reports would be read as a set. A group of home health agency providers was invited to provide feedback on the draft taxonomy and info

This is the second report in a series that is describing the findings from stakeholders. The background on the taxonomy development is described in more detail in Report A and it is the expectation of the authors that these reports would be read as a set. A select group of nursing home providers was invited to provide feedback on the draft taxonom

This paper reports on findings from a circumscribed literature review and multiple stakeholder discussions pertaining to the use of and need for health information technology applications in nursing homes (NHs) and home health agencies (HHAs). Through these two data collection methods, the authors have attempted to identify and organize the types

This project builds on previous ASPE-funded research on nursing homes. Specifically, a study of the nursing home liability insurance market conducted by MedStat which found that many nursing home chains have been reacting to environmental changes by divesting ownership of facilities in certain markets and pursuing other types of corporate restruc

Understanding the role of informal caregiving in preventing or delaying nursing home entry among chronically disabled elders is increasingly important for policy. Continued aging of the population and other demographic shifts are likely to increase the caregiving burden for a smaller number of caregivers per elder in the coming decades.

The goal of this report is to present a review of a subset of the Internet sites that may be used to inform a consumer's selection of a nursing facility. As part of this content review, the authors reviewed 29 websites; 13 websites were national in scope and 16 were state specific. The following states were considered in our search for and review

This report presents an update of the nursing home liability insurance market in Florida. The report is one of five case studies that was prepared as part of a larger study sponsored by ASPE within HHS on trends and issues in the nursing home liability insurance market. Additional case studies were conducted of the nursing home liability insuran

The report is one of five case studies that was prepared as part of a larger study sponsored by ASPE within HHS on trends and issues in the nursing home liability insurance market. Additional case studies were conducted of the nursing home liability insurance market in the states of California, Georgia, Florida and Texas. The case studies are de

This report presents a case study of the nursing home liability insurance market in Texas. The report is one of five case studies that was prepared as part of a larger study sponsored by ASPE within HHS on trends and issues in the nursing home liability insurance market. Additional case studies were conducted of the nursing home liability insura

The report is one of five case studies that was prepared as part of a larger study sponsored by ASPE within HHS on trends and issues in the nursing home liability insurance market. Additional case studies were conducted of the nursing home liability insurance market in the states of California, Florida, Ohio and Texas. The case studies are desig

This report is one of five case studies prepared as part of a larger study sponsored by ASPE within HHS on trends and issues in the nursing home liability insurance market. Additional case studies were conducted of the nursing home liability insurance market in the states of Ohio, Florida, Georgia and Texas. The case studies are designed to prov

This report first presents a summary of the environment in each of the five states — California, Florida, Georgia, Ohio and Texas — that were selected for case study analysis. Next, the report describes national trends in litigation and claims against the nursing home industry. The report then presents trends in the nursing home liability ins

This report provides a brief overview of the study's research methods for both the field research and the quantitative analyses, including a brief description of the limitations of each of these analyses. The authors then present findings and observations from the qualitative study and quantitative analyses relevant to specific research questions

Concern about inappropriate nursing home placement and rising long-term care costs led to a series of government-financed demonstrations to study whether substituting care at home for care in nursing homes could reduce costs and improve the quality of life for the frail elderly. Based on the evaluation of these demonstrations, the authors conclude

This study analyzes Connecticut nursing home data on a current resident cohort, with particular attention to how many residents began their stays as private pay, but eventually spent down to Medicaid eligibility. It also estimates how many residents were Medicaid eligible prior to admission or became eligible at admission. Using data on the amount

The purpose of this paper was to provide a synthesis and critique of current research on Medicaid spenddown. The primary goal was to ask what these studies could tell us about the extent to which persons incurred catastrophic expenses in nursing homes. A corollary goal was to examine how the data and research methods used in the various studies af

This analysis compares predictors of institutional residency in 1977 and 1985 among two national cohorts of individuals who responded to national surveys of nursing home and community-dwelling elderly persons. A state-level analysis of change in predictors of state nursing home use rates for 1976 and 1986 was also conducted using aggregate state

This policy brief is one of six commissioned by HHS/ASPE on Medicaid eligibility policies for long-term care benefits. This brief summarizes the estate recovery mandate, discusses variations in mechanisms employed by states to implement the mandate, and presents a state-by-state analysis of collections from 2002 through 2004. [13 PDF pages]