5046.0 Nursing Homes: Issues of cost and quality of care

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This session will focus on several aspects of quality of care in nursing home including impact of payment source on hospitalization risks among nursing home residents, nursing homes’ response to publication of the Nursing Home Compare report card, safe medication administration in nursing homes, contribution of race and payer source to nursing home quality of care, and barriers to nursing home discharge. These discussions will provide policy makers and researchers valuable information on ways to improve nursing home quality.
Session Objectives: 1. Investigate the impact of financial incentives on NH hospitalization decisions. 2. Describe the impact of the Nursing Home Compare report card. 3. Examine the influence of race and Medicaid payment on NH quality of care, analyzing influences at both the individual and facility levels.
Moderator:
Lucinda L. Bryant, PhD

8:30am
Health and discharge outcomes among younger and older nursing home residents
Pei-Shu Ho, PhD, Elizabeth K. Rasch, PT, PhD and Leighton Chan, MD, MPH
     
8:45am
Impact of payment source on hospitalization risks among nursing home residents: Lessons from four states
Shubing Cai, Dana B. Mukamel, PhD, Peter Veazie, PhD, Paul Katz, MD and Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD
9:00am
Nursing Homes response to publication of the Nursing Home Compare report card: The “Teaching to the test” strategy
Dana B. Mukamel, PhD, William D. Spector, PhD, Jacqueline S. Zinn, PhD, David L. Weimer, PhD and Heather A. Ladd, MS
9:15am
Promoting Safe Medication Administration in Massachusetts Nursing Homes
Teresa Anderson, PhD, MSW
     
9:30am
Barriers to Nursing Home Discharge: The Effect of Race and Geographic Factors
Annette E. Snyder, PhD, MSN, CFNP and Nancy A. Miller, PhD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Gerontological Health (newly approved name Aging & Public Health)
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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