Nursing Home Culture Change Practices and Survey Deficiencies: A National Longitudinal Panel Study

Discharge from nursing homes: 1977 National Nursing Home Survey.

Statistics are presented on the characteristics of persons discharged from nursing homes over a 12-month period during 1984-85. Data are presented on discharge status (live or dead), duration of stay, dependencies in mobility and continence, living arrangements (prior to admission and after discharge), primary diagnoses at admission and discharge, primary sources of payment for admission and di...

Nursing Home Culture Change and Social Work Practice

Medicaid payment policies for nursing home care: A national survey

This research gives a comprehensive overview of the nursing home payment methodologies used by each State Medicaid program. To present this comprehensive overview, 1988 data were collected by survey from 49 States and the District of Columbia. The literature was reviewed and integrated into the study to provide a theoretical framework to analyze the collected data. The data are organized and pr...

Nursing home culture change: legal apprehensions and opportunities.

There continue to be serious deficiencies in the quality of life available to many nursing home residents in the United States. One significant response to this undesirable situation is the nursing home "Culture Change" movement, which attempts to improve the nursing home environment-and consequently residents' quality of life-by making facilities less institutional and more homelike. One of th...

Culture change and nursing home quality of care.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Culture change models are intended to improve the quality of life for nursing home residents, but the impact of these models on quality of care is unknown. We evaluated the impact of the implementation of nursing home culture change on the quality of care, as measured by staffing, health-related survey deficiencies, and Minimum Data Set (MDS) quality indicators. DESIGN AN...