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JAMDA
October 21, 2025
The Effect of Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Spending on Nursing Home Care Quality in the United States
The number of US states operating Medicaid managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) programs grew from 8 to 24 between 2004 and 2019, driven by the challenges of an aging population. Significant heterogeneity exists across states in program features, structure, and spending. This study examined whet...
Policy Snapshot
January 19, 2024
CDC Has Improved the Nursing Homes Reporting Process for COVID-19 Data in NHSN, but Challenges Remain
CDC and nursing homes experienced difficulties during a mass enrollment of more than 12,000 facilities into the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to begin reporting COVID-19 data in May 2020. CDC improved the process of nursing home reporting to NHSN throughout the pandemic, but challenges remain. ...
JAMDA
July 30, 2016
Repeated Hospital Transfers and Associated Outcomes by Residency Time Among Nursing Home Residents in Taiwan
Nursing home residents' repeated transfers to hospital are costly and can lead to in-hospital complications and high mortality for frail residents. However, no research has examined the trajectory of residents’ symptoms over their nursing home residency and its relationship to hospital transfer. ...
JAMDA
June 24, 2016
Decisions to Transfer Nursing Home Residents to Emergency Departments: A Scoping Review of Contributing Factors and Staff Perspectives
Nursing home (NH) residents are a frail and vulnerable population often faced with iatrogenic effects of hospital stays when transferred to emergency departments for acute changes in health status. Avoidable or unnecessary transfers of care need to be identified and defined to prevent unintended harm. The ...
JAMDA
December 27, 2019
Changes in US Nursing Home Infection Prevention and Control Programs From 2014 to 2018
Burgeoning rates of antibiotic resistance have resulted in a shift in national focus to improve infection prevention and control programs in US nursing homes (NHs). We sought to evaluate the changes in nursing home infection prevention and control programs over time.
JAMDA
February 15, 2014
Obesity Can Benefit Survival—A 9-Year Prospective Study in 1614 Chinese Nursing Home Residents
Weight loss has been considered predictive of early mortality in nursing home residents. Lower body mass index, irrespective of weight loss, has also been considered detrimental for survival in community-dwelling older persons. We examined which of the 2 is more important for survival in nursing home resid...
JAMDA
October 1, 2018
The Change in Nursing Home Residents' Preferences Over Time
Nursing home (NH) residents' preferences for everyday living are the foundation for delivering individualized person-centered care. Yet, work has not examined what the most and least important preferences of nursing home residents are and if those preferences change over time.
JAMDA
May 29, 2015
The “Leap Forward” in Nursing Home Development in Urban China: Future Policy Directions
In the past decade, the number of nursing beds in China has increased annually by an average of 10%, reaching 4.3 million in 2013. Although the State Council pushed for further increases to a ratio of 30 nursing home beds per 1000 persons by 2015, service utilization, quality assurance, and regulatory over...
JAMDA
June 26, 2015