Staffing Ratios and Quality: An Analysis of Minimum Direct Care Staffing Requirements for Nursing Homes

Appropriateness of Minimum Nurse Staffing Ratios in Nursing Homes

Study on Staffing Requirements in Nursing Facilities. --The Secretary shall conduct a study and report to Congress no later than January 1, 1992, on the appropriateness of establishing minimum caregiver to resident ratios and minimum supervisor to caregiver ratios for skilled nursing facilities serving as providers of services under title XVIII [Medicare] of the Social Security Act and nursing ...

Staffing subsidies and the quality of care in nursing homes.

Concerns about the quality of state-financed nursing home care has led to the wide-scale adoption by states of pass-through subsidies, in which Medicaid reimbursement rates are directly tied to staffing expenditure. We examine the effects of Medicaid pass-through on nursing home staffing and quality of care by adapting a two-step FGLS method that addresses clustering and state-level temporal au...

Leadership, staffing and quality of care in nursing homes

BACKGROUND Leadership and staffing are recognised as important factors for quality of care. This study examines the effects of ward leaders' task- and relationship-oriented leadership styles, staffing levels, ratio of registered nurses and ratio of unlicensed staff on three independent measures of quality of care. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of forty nursing home wards throughout Norway ...

The Effects of State Minimum Staffing Standards on Staffing, Quality of Care, and Financial Performance in Nursing Homes

Registered nurse staffing mix and quality of care in nursing homes: a longitudinal analysis.

PURPOSE To examine the relationship between registered nurse (RN) staffing mix and quality of nursing home care measured by regulatory violations. DESIGN AND METHODS A retrospective panel data study (1999-2003) of 2 groups of California freestanding nursing homes. One group was 201 nursing homes that consistently met the state's minimum standard for total nurse staffing level over the 5-year ...