Compendium of Home Modification and Assistive Technology Policy and Practice Across States: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Does High Caregiver Stress Lead to Nursing Home Entry?
Brenda C. Spillman and Sharon K. Long
Urban Institute
January 26, 2007
A Synthesis and Critique of Studies on Medicaid Asset Spenddown
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Post-Acute Care Issues for Medicare: Interviews with Provider and Consumer Groups, and Researchers and Policy Analysts
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Important Questions for Hospice in the Next Century
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Important Questions for Hospice in the Next Century
Executive Summary
Medicare Post-Acute Care: Quality Measurement Final Report
Marie Johnson, Danielle Holthaus, Jennie Harvell, Eric Coleman, Theresa Eilertsen and Andrew Kramer
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Case Studies of Electronic Health Records in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Role of Home and Community-Based Services in Meeting the Health Care Needs of People with AIDS: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HHS Strategic Goals and Objectives - FY 2001 . Appendix E - Program Evaluations
Program evaluations can play an important role in formulating goals, objectives, and implementation strategies for a variety of planning activities throughout the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Program evaluations also tell us whether our efforts are successful. While there are still gaps in what we know, we now are beginning to as
Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers Engaged in Health Information Exchange: Final Report. Appendix M. Glossary
Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers Engaged in Health Information Exchange: Final Report. Appendix L. Standards Available to SUPPORT Health Information Exchange of Long-term and Post-acute CARE Data
TABLE L-1. Standards Available to Support HIE of LTPAC Data
Evaluation of Parity in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program: Final Report. Impact on Access to Care, Service Use, and Cost
Implementing parity required changing the nominal benefits for coverage of treating mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) disorders. The dimensions of the nominal benefit that are most often affected when parity policies are implemented are:
Persons With Mental Retardation and Related Conditions in Mental Retardation Facilities: Selected Findings from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey. Characteristics by Level of Mental Retardation
Table 36 presents estimates of selected characteristics of residents with mental retardation and related conditions in mental retardation facilities by their reported level of retardation or for those residents reported to have "related conditions" only.
Activities of Daily Living
Persons With Mental Retardation and Related Conditions in Mental Retardation Facilities: Selected Findings from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey. Facility Administrative Data
Table 5 and Table 6 present basic administrative statistics for ICF-MR and noncertified facilities by type of operation and facility size. The statistics presented on facility capacity, current residents and certified capacity have the limitations discussed above.
Proportion of Capacity Occupied
Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.. References
Caton, C. M., Dominguez, B., Schanzer, B., Hasin, D. S., Shrout, P. E., Felix A., et al. (2005). Risk factors for long-term homelessness: Findings from a longitudinal study of first-time homeless single adults. American Journal of Public Health, 95, 1753–1759.
Clark, C., & Rich, A. (2003).Outcomes of homeless adults with mental illness
Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.. Administrative Data Linkages
Perhaps the most valuable use of HMIS data beyond its reporting functions is the data capacity it creates for longitudinal, multisite, multisystem research. The Congressional directive authorizing the HMIS initiative refers to the need to use HMIS data to determine if people served in homeless assistance programs are accessing mainstream social we
Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.. Supportive Housing
Published studies of various housing interventions have demonstrated that housing does indeed resolve homelessness, though to varying degrees depending on the nature of the intervention, and with varying cost offsets. An experimental study in Boston (Dickey et al., 1997) of people who were homeless with severe mental illness compared people who we
Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.. Studies of the Costs of Homelessness
Researchers and others have been interested in documenting the costs of homelessness because it is believed that demonstrating high costs will inspire investments in alternative housing and services. Indeed, as will be discussed in the next section, several investments in alternative housing and service models have included evaluations to examine
Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.
The authors summarize the progress made in the past decade toward making homeless assistance programs more accountable to funders, consumers, and the public. They observe that research on the costs of homelessness and cost offsets associated with intervention programs has been limited to people who are homeless with severe mental illness. But this
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