Nursing home quality and financial performance: Does the racial composition of residents matter?

Health Services Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6 PART1, 2013, Pages 2060-2080

  Chisholm, Latarsha ^a   Weech Maldonado, Robert ^b   Laberge, Alex ^c   Lin, Feng Chang ^d   Hyer, Kathryn ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Financial performance; Nursing homes; Quality; Racial composition

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CATHETER; DECUBITUS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PROFIT; PROFIT MARGIN; RACE DIFFERENCE; TAX; WALKING; AFRICAN AMERICAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HOME FOR THE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; NEGRO; QUALITY; RACIAL COMPOSITION; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BENCHMARKING; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BLACKS; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY; RACIAL COMPOSITION;

EID: 84892993034     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12079     Document Type: Article

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