Medicare policy driving longer nursing home hospice stays
Jul 12, 2010
The length of Medicare-certified hospice stays in nursing homes has doubled over the last decade, according to a new report from Brown University.
60 Seconds with … Vincent Mor, Ph.D., Chairman, Dept. of Community Health, Brown University
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Haymarket Media
Jan 09, 2007
Q: You and co-author Edward Alan Miller recently released the long-awaited report to the National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care. What were your major findings?
A: It’s pretty important we...
Medicare Advantage option delivers better care in fewer days, study asserts
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Marty Stempniak
Jun 26, 2018
Spending more time in a skilled nursing facility does not necessarily equate to better care, according to a new study, released this afternoon by Brown University researchers.
Closures impact urban poor the hardest
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Mary Gustafson
Feb 02, 2011
Nursing home closures have hit poor, urban and minority communities especially hard over the past decade, according to a new study from Brown University.
New Web site focuses on long-term care data
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Denise Tyler
Dec 02, 2009
Information about the health and status of nursing home residents, facility characteristics and states’ long-term care policies is available on a new Web site from Brown University.
Hospice care becoming costlier, less aggressive, study finds
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John Hall
May 08, 2015
Brown researchers examined the change in last-year-of-life Medicare expenditures during the most recent expansion of the program that began in 2004 and continued through 2009.
Researchers worry Medicare Advantage may be exerting wrong influence on SNFs
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 04, 2018
A new study out of Brown University takes a closer look at how private Medicare plans are attempting to influence which skilled nursing facilities patients use, and for how long.
State policies encourage unnecessary hospitalizations, study says
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Haymarket Media
Dec 18, 2006
Some state Medicaid policies inadvertently create financial incentives for nursing homes to hospitalize their frail elderly residents, putting them at significant risk, according to researchers at Brown...
Nursing home closures have been concentrated in poor, urban areas, study finds
Jan 12, 2011
Over the last 10 years, nursing home closures have hit poor, urban and minority communities especially hard, according to a new study from Brown University.
New study scrutinizes long-term care system’s challenges
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Haymarket Media
Nov 10, 2006
A new study by Brown University researchers points out six areas where policy makers need to make changes to improve the long-term care system in America.