[Seniorresources] Nursing Home Resources

[Sally Camp]

"Medicaid and Long-Term Care Services," Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, July 2006 fact
sheet, http://www.kff.org/medicaid/2186.cfm.

"Nursing Homes: Business as Usual," Trudy Lieberman, Consumer Reports,
September 2006 issue (released in August 2006),
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/health-fitness/health-care/nursing-ho
mes-9-06/overview/0609_nursing-homes_ov.htm. This article stems from a
project, funded by the Commonwealth Fund, to look at nursing home
quality. The investigative article finds that "bad care persists and
good homes are still hard to find." The article includes information
from, and a link to, the magazine's Nursing Home Quality Monitor
database; the research for the database was done as part of the same
Commonwealth-supported project. The database "lists facilities in each
state that rank in the best or worst 10 percent on at least two of
[Consumer Reports'] three dimensions of quality."

"Nursing Homes 101," Mary Jane Koren of the Commonwealth Fund, August
2006,
http://www.cmwf.org/aboutus/aboutus_show.htm?doc_id=392798&#doc392798.
In this online commentary, Koren discusses the above Consumer Reports
article and talks about the idea of moving the nursing home industry
"toward resident-centered care."

 

 

Sally Camp 
Services Coordination Project 
Senior Connections 
24 E. Cary Street 
Richmond, VA 23219 
804-343-3058 
scamp at youraaa.org 

 

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