Nursing home closures and quality of care

Medical Care Research and Review

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 111-132

  Castle, Nicholas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Closures; OSCAR; Quality; Relocation

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CONTRACTURE; DECUBITUS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MEDICAID; NURSING HOME; EXERCISE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

HEALTH FACILITY CLOSURE; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; PRESSURE ULCER; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

EID: 17544380847     PISSN: 10775587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077558704271728     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. 1996. Closed nursing homes. Washington, DC: American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
2. American Association of Retired Persons. 2001. The costs of long-term care: Public perceptions versus reality. Washington, DC: Health and LTC Research Center.
3. Angelelli, J., V. Mor, O. Intrator, Z. Feng, and J. Zinn. 2003. Oversight of nursing homes: Pruning the tree or just spotting bad apples. The Gerontologist 43 (Special Issue 2): 67-75.
4. Berlowitz, D. R., and S. V. B. Wilking. 1990. The short-term outcome of pressure sores. Journal of the American Geriatric Society 38:748-52.
5. Binstock, R. H., and W. D. Spector. 1997. Five priority areas in long-term care. Health Services Research 32 (5): 715-30.
6. Borup, J. 1983. Relocation mortality research: Assessment, reply, and a need to refocus on the issues. The Gerontologist 23:235-42.
7. Castle, N. G. 1997. Replaced by fish: When a nursing home closes what happens to the residents? Journal of Long-Term Care Administration (December): 10-11, 24-25.
8. Castle, N. G. 2001. Relocation of the elderly: A literature review. Medical Care Research and Review. 58(3):291-333.
9. Childs, N. 2000. Nursing facility bankruptcies top 10 percent in 21 states. Provider, April, 13.
10. Davis, M. A. 1991. On nursing home quality: A review and analysis. Medical Care Review 48(2): 129-66.
11. Degenholtz, H., R. A. Kane, and H. Q. Kivnick. 1997. Care-related preferences and values of elderly community-based LTC consumers: Can case managers learn what's important to clients? The Gerontologist 37:767-76.
12. Dellefield, M. E. 2000. Staffing in nursing homes and quality indicators: A literature review. Journal of Gerontological Nursing 26(6): 17-28.
13. General Accounting Office. 1998. California nursing homes: Care problems persist despite federal and state oversight. GAO/HEHS-98-202. Washington, DC: General Accounting Office.
14. -. 1999. Nursing homes: Additional steps needed to strengthen enforcement of federal quality standards. GAO/HEHS-99-46. Washington, DC: General Accounting Office.
15. -. 2002. Nursing homes: Public reporting of quality indicators has merit, but national implementation is premature. GAO-03-187. Washington, DC: General Accounting Office.
16. Graber, D. R., and P. D. Sloane. 1995. Nursing home survey deficiencies for physical restraint use. Medical Care 33:1051-63.
17. Grabowski, D. C. 2001a. Does an increase in the Medicaid reimbursement rate improve nursing home quality? Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 56B (2): S84-S93.
18. -. 2001b. Medicaid reimbursement and the quality of nursing home care. Journal of Health Economics 20 (4): 549-69.
19. Granger, C. V., G. B. Seltzer, and C. F. Fishbein. 1987. Primary care of the functionally disabled. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott.
20. Harrington, C., J. O'Meara, M. Kitchener, L. Payne Simon, and J. F. Schnelle. 2003. Designing a report card for nursing facilities: What information is needed and why. The Gerontologist 43:47-57.
21. Harrington, C., J. H. Swan, V. Wellin, W. Clemena, and H. M. Carrillo. 1999. 1998 state data book on long term care program and market characteristics. San Francisco: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California. Retrieved from http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicaid/services/98sdbltc. pdf.
22. Harrington, C., C. Tompkins, M. Curtis, and L. Grant. 1992. Psychotropic drug use in long-term care facilities: A review of the literature. The Gerontologist 32:822-33.
23. Harrington, C., D. Zimmerman, S. L. Karon, J. Robinson, and P. Beutel. 2000. Nursing home staffing and its relationship to deficiencies. Journal of Gerontology 55B:S278-S287.
24. Institute of Medicine. 2001. Improving the quality of long-term care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
25. Kaiser Family Foundation. 2002. State budgets under stress: How are states planning to reduce the growth in Medicaid costs? Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
26. Kane, R. L., C. C. Williams, T. F. Williams, and R. A. Kane. 1993. Restraining restraints: Changes in a standard of care. Annual Review of Public Health 14:545-84.
27. Kennedy, P. 1992. A guide to econometrics. 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
28. Levit, K. R., C. A. Cowan, H. C. Lazenby, P. M. Sensenig, J. Stiller, and A. Martin. 2000. Health spending in 1998: Signals of change. Health Affairs 19:124-32.
29. Maddala, G. S. 1977. Econometrics. New York: McGraw-Hill.
30. Mukamel, D. B. 1997. Risk-adjusted outcome measures and quality of care in nursing homes. Medical Care 35:367-85.
31. Mukamel, D. B., and W. D. Spector. 2003. Quality report cards and nursing home quality. The Gerontologist 43:58-66.
32. Mullner, R., C. S. Byre, P. S. Levy, and J. D. Kubal. 1982. Closures among U.S. community hospitals 1976-1980. Medical Care 20:699-709.
33. Ooi, W. L., J. N. Morris, G. H. Brandeis, M. Hossain, and L. A. Lipsitz. 1999. Nursing home characteristics and the development of pressure sores and disruptive behavior. Age and Ageing 28 (1): 45-52.
34. Phillips, C. D., C. Hawes, V. Mor, B. E. Fries, J. N. Morris, and M. N. Nennstiel. 1991. Facility and area variation affecting the use of physical restraints in nursing homes. Medical Care 34:1149-62.
35. SAS Institute. 1997. SAS/STAT software: Changes and enhancements through release 6.12. Cary, NC: SAS Institute.
36. Scott, W. R. 1981. Organizations: Rational, natural, and open systems. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
37. Shortell, S. M., J. L. O'Brien, J. M. Carman, E. F. Foster, F. X. Hughes, H. Boerstler, and E. J. O'Connor. 1995. Assessing the impact of continuous quality improvement/total quality management. Health Services Research 30:377-401.
38. Spector, W., and H. A. Takada. 1991. Characteristics of nursing homes that affect resident outcomes. Journal of Aging and Health 3:427-54.
39. Stambler, H. 1988. The area resource file: A brief look. Public Health Reports 103:184-88.
40. Topping, S. 1991. Hospital closures: What is the story? Health Services Management Research 4 (2): 148-58.
41. Wiener, J. M. 2003. An assessment of strategies for improving quality of care in nursing homes. The Gerontologist 43 (Spec 2): 19-27.