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 Report
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.
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities Offer Opportunities for Delivering Health Care and Related Services
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
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.
Expanded Database Provides a Way to Analyze Home Health Care
September 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
From 1994 to 1997, staff at the California Association for Health Services (CAHSAH) constructed a uniform patient-level home health care database and developed a comprehensive patient classification system for home health care services. They also analyzed the collected data.
Report Details Six Health Insurance Options for States to Cover Home Care Workers
March 27, 2008 | Program Result Report
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.
Collaborative Learning for Home Health Providers Results in Improvements to Care
July 29, 2008 | Program Result Report
Staff at the Center for Home Care Policy and Research engaged home health agencies in two different learning collaboratives aimed at improving patient care.
What Factors Influence the Kind of Long-Term Services Patients with Private Insurance Choose Over Time
September 5, 2008 | Program Result Report
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.
Baltimore Elderly in "Safe at Home" Program Experience Fewer Falls, Better Health
February 21, 2007 | Program Result Report
A research team from Johns Hopkins University conducted an evaluation of Safe at Home - a program that provided a coordinated set of services to help the low-income elderly continue living in their own homes.
Researchers Identify Ways to Measure and Improve Home Health Care
March 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
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.