Nursing homes : quality and care issues
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Nursing homes : quality and care issues
（Aging issues, health and financial alternatives series）
Nova Science Publishers, c2010
- : hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The nation's 1.5 million nursing home residents are a highly vulnerable population of elderly and disabled individuals for whom remaining at home is no longer feasible. With the ageing of the baby boom generation, the number of individuals needing nursing home care and the associated costs are expected to increase dramatically. The federal government plays a key role in ensuring that nursing home residents receive appropriate care by setting quality-of-care, quality-of-life, and life safety requirements that nursing homes must meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs and by contracting with states to encourage compliance with these requirements, Congress has authorised certain enforcement actions. This book addresses and evaluates the quality of nursing home care across the nation and explores the enforcement and oversight functions intended to ensure high-quality care.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Nursing Home Reform: Continued Attention is Needed to Improve Quality of Care in a Small but Significant Share of Homes (Statement of Kathryn G. Allen, Director, Health Care, GAO)
- Nursing Homes: Addressing the Factors Underlying Understatement of Serious Care Problems Requires Sustained CMS and State Commitment (GAO)
- Nursing Home Transparency, Enforcement & Quality Improvement Hearing (Opening Statement of Senator Kohl)
- Nursing Home Transparency, Enforcement & Quality Improvement Hearing (Statement of Steve Biondi, RN, LNHA, American Health Care Association)
- Nursing Home Transparency, Enforcement & Quality Improvement Hearing (Statement of Senator Grassley to the Special Committee on Aging)
- Nursing Home Transparency, Enforcement & Quality Improvement Hearing (Statement of Mr. Muller, Assistant Director of Research for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- Nursing Home Transparency, Enforcement & Quality Improvement Hearing (Statement of Sarah Slocum, Michigan State Long Term Care Ombudsman and Secretary of the National Association of State Long-Term Care, Ombudsman Programs)
- Nursing Home Transparency, Enforcement & Quality Improvement Hearing (Statement of Ranking Member, Gordon H. Smith)
- CMS' Oversight of Nursing Homes: The Special Focus Facility & Other Programs to Address Troubled Nursing Homes (Statement of Kerry Weems, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
- Nursing Home Transparency, Enforcement & Quality Improvement Hearing (Statement of Bonnie Zabel, Administrator, Marquardt Memorial Manor, Inc.)
- Nursing Home Transparency, Enforcement & Quality Improvement Hearing (Testimony of David R. Zimmerman, PhD., Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Index.
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