Nursing Homes & Facilities

This paper — which is one of a series of Appendices included in the demonstration's final report — describes Florida's Nursing Home Transition Grant Project, is one of a series of nine case studies presenting results from the Demonstration. The case studies provide useful information as states consider nursing home transition efforts or implement nursing home transition programs.

This paper — which is one of a series of Appendices included in the demonstration's final report — describes an initiative called One-to-One: Vermonters in Transition (One-to-One), is one of a series of nine case studies presenting results from the Demonstration.

This paper — which is one of a series of Appendices included in the demonstration's final report — describes Arkansas' Passages program. The case studies provide useful information as states consider nursing home transition efforts or implement nursing home transition programs.

This paper, which is one of a series of Appendices included in the demonstration's final report, describes Colorado's nursing home program. Unlike other Nursing Home Transition Demonstration Grants, Colorado's grant focused on preventing nursing home admissions, rather than assisting people who want to move into the community.

The goal of this report is to identify the individual-level factors associated with nursing home and assisted living entry and determine whether and how they differ. While it is possible to estimate a simple model of entry into these facilities at some point in the observation period, a more useful model would make use of data on elapsed time until such a transition.

Alan White, Ph.D., Barbara Manard, Ph.D., Deborah Deitz, BSN, Terry Moore, MPH, RN, Donna Hurd, MSN, Christine Landino, MSW, MPH, Jennie Harvell, M.Ed. Abt Associates, Inc.

    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services   State Nursing Home Quality Improvement Programs: Site Visit and Synthesis Report Executive Summary

The purpose of this project is to inform federal and state policymakers about what can be learned about the implementation and enforcement of state minimum nursing staff ratios for nursing homes, and related issues, such as labor shortages and resident casemix.

Brenda C. Spillman, Senior Research AssociatKorbin Liu, Principal Research AssociateCarey McGilliard, Research Assistant Urban Institute PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2002/rltct.pdf (34 PDF pages)

In this paper, the authors use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, which represents the full Medicare population, regardless of living arrangement, to describe characteristics of elderly residents of both types of facility and the characteristics of the facilities. Our sample is limited to beneficiaries age 65 or older.