The Effects of Medicaid Payment and Payment-to-Cost Ratio on Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Ratings
Medicaid is the largest payer of nursing home (NH) care in the United States, yet Medicaid payments are not required to cover the full cost of care.
Marc A. Cohen • John R. Bowblis
Social Service Staffing and Quality of Care Outcomes in US Nursing Homes
Examine the association between social service staffing intensity and resident quality of care outcomes in US nursing homes.
Nursing Home Leadership Turnover and Its Association With Star Ratings and Consumer Satisfaction
Nursing home administrator (NHA) and director of nursing (DON) are the 2 key leadership positions in nursing homes (NHs) and play an important role in delivering high-quality long-term care services.
Christopher Brunt • John R. Bowblis • Jenny Kwon • Huiwen Xu
Loneliness and social isolation can negatively impact health, wellbeing, and quality of life of older adults.
Ensuring a good quality of life (QOL) among older refugees is a critical yet underexplored aspect of humanitarian support.
Saruna Ghimire • Sabuj Kanti Mistry • Uday Narayan Yadav • Abu Ansar Md Rizwan • A. R. M. Mehrab Ali • Shovon Bhattacharjee • Probal Kumar Mondal • Md Nazmul Huda • Suvasish Das Shuvo • Afsana Anwar
Quality of life (QOL) is an important indicator of the influence nonpharmacological interventions have on the well-being of persons living with dementia and their family care partners. In the realm...
Kate Perepezko • Molly Noble • Heather L. Menne
Nursing homes (NH) are mandated to provide person-centered care (PCC).
Karen Eshraghi • Allison R. Heid • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Katherine M. Abbott
The Individualized Positive Psychosocial Intervention (IPPI) is an evidence-based program that engages people living with dementia (PLWD) in brief (i.e. 10 minute) one-to-one preference-based...
Amy Kotterman • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Katherine M. Abbott • Allison R. Heid • Molly Noble
We implemented a pilot embedded pragmatic clinical trial of the evidence-based Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction (IPPI) program for people living with dementia (PLWD) in nursing homes.
Amy Kotterman • Katherine M. Abbott • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Allison R. Heid • Molly Noble
Nursing Home Staffing Expenditures and Levels are Impaired by High Medicaid Payer-Mix
Medicaid is the primary payer for most nursing home residents and reimburses below the cost of care, limiting the ability of nursing homes to increase staffing levels.
Christopher Brunt • John R. Bowblis
Polypharmacy and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults: Does Gender Matter?
This study examined the relationship between polypharmacy and depressive symptoms among U.S. community-dwelling older adults and whether it varied by gender.
Xiao Qui • Cassandra L. Hua • J. Scott Brown • Na Sun
The share of patients with kidney failure enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) increased from 27 percent to 47 percent after the implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act, which expanded MA eligi...
Amal N. Trivedi • Eunhae Grace Oh • Laura M. Keohane • Kevin H. Nguyen • Momotazur Rahman • Emily A. Gadbois • David J. Meyers • Denise A. Tyler • Joan F. Brazier
Association Between Nursing Home Five-Star Ratings and Consumer Satisfaction
Consumers can currently access the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Five-Star Quality Rating System when they choose a nursing home (NH).
John R. Bowblis • Jenny Kwon
This study assessed the readiness of The Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction (IPPI) program in the nursing home (NH) setting from the perspective of NH providers implementing the IPPI.
Katherine M. Abbott • Miranda C. Kunkel • Cassandra Keiser • Nahida Akter • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Kamryn Kasler • Alexis Talmage
Associations between Complaints and Organizational Characteristics among Ohio Nursing Homes
In recent years, Ohio nursing homes (NHs) have received an increasing number of complaints.
Xiao Qiu • Jenny Kwon • Robert A. Applebaum • Katherine M. Abbott • Jane Straker
The Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction (IPPI) is a non-pharmacological, person-centered, intervention for nursing home (NH) residents living with moderate to severe dementia.
Katherine M. Abbott • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Alexandra Heppner • Kamryn Kasler
Nursing Homes Increasingly Rely On Staffing Agencies For Direct Care Nursing
When nursing homes experience a shortage in directly employed nursing staff, they may rely on temporary workers from staffing agencies to fill this gap.
John R. Bowblis • Christopher Brunt • Robert A. Applebaum • David C. Grabowski • Huiwen Xu
Uncovering subgroups of nursing home residents sharing similar preference patterns is useful for developing systematic approaches to person-centered care.
Yinfei Duan • Tetyana P Shippee • Odichinma Akosionu • John R. Bowblis • Weiwen Ng
Complaints provide important information to consumers about nursing homes (NHs), but how substantiated complaints map onto deficiency citations is unknown.
Victor Molinari • Lindsay Peterson • John R. Bowblis • Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya
The purpose of this quality improvement project was to evaluate the implementation of a person-centered communication tool in nursing homes (NH).
Kimberly Van Haitsma • Abby Hermesch • Alexandra Heppner • Nytasia M. Hicks • Katherine M. Abbott
The Older Adult Population of Greene County Ohio
This report provides a socio-demographic snapshot of the older adult population of Greene County, Ohio
Abigail Helsinger • Ian Matt Nelson
Family satisfaction: Differences between nursing homes and residential care facilities
This study compared differences in overall family satisfaction, specific satisfaction domains, and correlates of satisfaction between nursing homes (NHs) and residential care facilities (RCFs), usi...
Nytasia M. Hicks • Katherine Wood • Jonathon M. Vivoda • Nader Mehri
The Preferences Assessment Tool (PAT) in the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 assesses 16 resident preferences for daily routines and activities.
Odichinma Akosionu • Beth A. Virnig • Yunfei Duan • Jasjit S. Ahluwalia • Weiwen Ng • Joseph E. Gaugler • Mark Woodhouse • John R. Bowblis • Haitao Chu • Teyana T. Shippee
Culture change (CC) is an innovation to improve nursing home resident quality of life. Inconsistencies in how CC is measured make the interpretation of findings inconclusive.
J. Scott Brown • Katherine M. Abbott • Anjali B. K. • Jane Straker
The impact of long-term care ombudsman presence on nursing home survey deficiencies
This study examines whether deficiency outcomes from nursing home annual survey inspections vary with the presence of a long-term care ombudsman at the survey.
Josh Bornstein • John R. Bowblis • Diane Berish
Although assessing individual consumer preferences is an important first step in providing person-centered care, the purpose of this study was to identify the top 10 shared preferences that are imp...
Rachel Klumpp • Katherine M. Abbott • Gerald C. Gannod • Jane Straker • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Kendall Leser
Assessing the Quality of Caregiver Support Services
The project’s primary objective was to design and test an outcome-focused system for quality monitoring of caregiver-support services based largely on input from caregivers themselves.
Kathryn McGrew • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Shawn Davis • Robert A. Applebaum • Ian Matt Nelson
A Guide to Quality in Consumer Directed Services
This guide is designed to provide states and programs involved in consumer-directed services with a practical handbook on ensuring and improving the quality of services.
Barbara Schneider • Robert A. Applebaum • Shawn Davis • Suzanne R. Kunkel
