Nursing Home Termination, Nursing Home Closure, and Many Unanswered Questions

Nursing Home

Ownership conversion and closure in the nursing home industry.

Ownership conversions and closures in the nursing home literature have largely been treated as separate issues. This paper studies the predictors of nursing home ownership conversions and closure in a common framework after the implementation of the Prospective Payment System in Medicare skilled nursing facilities. The switch in reimbursement regimes impacted facilities with greater exposure to...

Nursing home closures: effects on capacity and reasons for closure.

OBJECTIVES to identify the rate of closure of nursing homes for older people, the types of homes closing and the reasons for closure. DESIGN mixed method study including a census and telephone survey of registration and inspection units and interviews with independent providers. PARTICIPANTS 81 of 96 health authority and joint registration and inspection unit managers in England completed t...

Nursing Home Residents

Nursing Home Initiative

Currently, 1.6 million elderly and disabled people receive care in about 17,000 nursing homes across the United States. In 1987, Congress passed major nursing home reforms that defined the role of the State survey and certification process in determining the compliance of nursing homes with Federal standards. In 1998, the President announced new steps to increase Federal oversight of nursing ho...