Community Advocate Helps Rural Poor Age in Their Own Homes
November 8, 2011 | Story
2011 Community Health Leader creates a program that educates residents of Arkansas' poorest region about health and health care services.
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Michigan Project Creates Screening System and Develops and Tests Quality Measures for Home-Based Medicaid Patients
May 31, 2011 | Program Result
The University of Michigan conducted development and evaluation work on the Michigan Managed Long-Term Care Initiative, which allows eligible adults to receive Medicaid-covered services in their homes.
Physician Evaluation and Management of Medicare Home Health Patients
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines physician management of Medicare patients receiving home health services. Patients under Medicare home health generally have complex medical needs and make heavy use of health care services, but little is known about the extent and type of physician supervision provided to these patients.
Home Care Nurses' Descriptions of Important Agency Attributes
December 1, 2003 | Journal Article
Health administrators are seeking evidence-based strategies to improve job satisfaction and reduce staffing shortages.
What Factors Influence the Kind of Long-Term Services Patients with Private Insurance Choose Over Time
September 5, 2008 | Program Result
Researchers with the Center for Health and Long-Term Care Research interviewed nearly 1,500 individuals with long-term care insurance policies and followed them for up to two years.
Researchers Identify Ways to Measure and Improve Home Health Care
March 1, 2005 | Program Result
From 1988 through 2003, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supported the Development and Implementation of a Quality Improvement System for Home Health Care. The effort comprised six projects and was designed to improve the quality of home health, long-term and ambulatory care, and to study methods to improve health care quality in these settings.
Training Hispanic Home Health Aides Provides Health Care - and Jobs
January 29, 2002 | Program Result
The Hispanic Family Center of Southern New Jersey, located in Camden, N.J., developed the Community Health Group program.
Program Brings Better Care to Rural Mississippi's Home-Bound Ill
July 1, 2002 | Program Result
To determine family caregivers' needs for training, a project team at Alcorn State University School of Nursing conducted a survey for families with homebound elderly, chronically ill, and physically disabled individuals in southwest Mississippi.
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities Offer Opportunities for Delivering Health Care and Related Services
September 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University studied the feasibility of providing health and supportive services for low-income older residents who live in naturally occurring retirement communities.
Report Details Six Health Insurance Options for States to Cover Home Care Workers
March 27, 2008 | Program Result
The Service Employees International Union analyzed then-current approaches to providing health insurance to home care workers and identified and analyzed coverage options that presented replicable models.