Conversion Diversion: Participation in a Social HMO Reduces the Likelihood of Converting From Short-Stay to Long-Stay Nursing Facility Placement

Conversion diversion: participation in a social HMO reduces the likelihood of converting from short-stay to long-stay nursing facility placement.

OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of a Social Health Maintenance Organization (S/HMO) on diverting older adults admitted into a nursing facility from converting to long-stay placement. DESIGN Members of the SCAN S/HMO and those in Medicare Fee-For-Service were compared on successful discharge to the community after being admitted to nursing facilities between January 1, 2001, and December 31...

Reducing the likelihood of long-stay nursing facility placement through health plan-linked community services.

When I mention to people that I work full time in a nursing home, I often see reflected on their faces a measure of thedistaste that society has for nursing homes. I suspect tax collectors experience a similar phenomenon. As a geriatrician, I recognize that nursing homes are a necessity for some, but that nursing home placement implies a series of trade-offs of cost and institutional environmen...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Assessing HMO Performance: Average Length-Of-Stay

Modeling Skilled Nursing Facility ( SNF ) Therapy Costs per Stay

• The views expressed in this memo are those of the authors. This memo documents our work to model the therapy costs of stays in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) using Medicare claims and assessment data from 2007. The work grew out of an interest to consider paying SNFs for each stay, rather than continuing the current practice of paying for each covered day. The payment for therapy would be ...