JAMDA
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February 14, 2024
Moving the needle in nursing home vaccination rates
On February 29, 2020, the first Coronavirus nursing home outbreak was reported by the media. Experts in geriatric and long-term care medicine immediately understood the dangers to nursing home residents. As the pandemic progressed, we lost many residents in our communities. It became eminently clear that o...
JAMDA
February 8, 2025
Describing Dementia Specialty Care Units in US Nursing Homes: Leveraging National Survey Data From HARBORS and LTCfocus
Nursing home dementia specialty care units are highly publicized as beneficial for residents with dementia, but we know little about these units and what makes them “special.” Leveraging primary data from a national survey of nursing home representatives and the LTCfocus data, this study aims to describe c...
JAMDA
November 6, 2024
Transfers among Vulnerable Long-Term Nursing Home Residents
To determine whether the risk of nursing home-to-nursing home transfer is higher among long-term nursing home residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), or serious mental illness (SMI), and/or Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), relative to residents without these ...
JAMDA
September 17, 2025
Asymptomatic Acute Hypertension in Nursing Home Residents: Rarely an Emergency
Hypertension is extremely common in the geriatric population, with estimates as high as 75%. Among nursing home residents, the prevalence is even higher. Asymptomatic hypertension, an acute increase in blood pressure without end-organ involvement, is common in this patient population and results in many ca...
JAMDA
September 11, 2025
Changes in Nursing Home Staffing Instability Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic
High nursing home staffing instability (ie, daily variation) is associated with poor resident outcomes. This study examined changes in nursing home staffing instability during the COVID-19 pandemic and investigated whether instability patterns differed by nursing home characteristics.
JAMDA
June 3, 2025
CMS Quality Star Ratings for Nursing Homes Change Frequently: A Descriptive Analysis of Trends From 2009 to 2020
Nursing Home Compare star ratings are closely watched by hospital delivery systems, policymakers, and consumers as measures of care quality. However, very little is known about the degree to which nursing homes can or do move between star ratings, what we refer to as performance mobility. This study addres...
JAMDA
May 24, 2025
Assessing Facility, Resident, and Financial Characteristics Associated with HUD 232–Sponsored Loan Participation in Nursing Homes
Many nursing homes require significant modernization to enhance resident quality of life, yet access to capital remains a critical barrier, especially for those dependent on Medicaid funding. The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 232–sponsored loan program helps insure low-interest financing to nursing h...
JAMDA
January 30, 2026
How Housing Influences Nursing Home Utilization in the United States: An Integrative Review
Given the growing housing crisis, researchers increasingly point to housing as a possible risk factor for nursing home utilization, yet the exact pathways from housing to nursing home utilization are unclear. The purpose of this review is to describe how housing acts as a mechanism that influences nursing ...
Policy Snapshot
April 28, 2023
Skilled Nursing Facility Three-Day Waiver-Analysis of Use in ACOs 2014 to 2019
In traditional Medicare, beneficiaries must have a medically necessary inpatient hospital stay of at least three consecutive days for the program to pay for skilled nursing facility (SNF) services.
