Green House Adoption and Nursing Home Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of the Green House (GH) model on nursing home resident-level quality of care measures.

Data sources/study setting

Resident-level minimum data set (MDS) assessments merged with Medicare inpatient claims for the period 2005 through 2010.

Study design

Using a difference-in-differences framework, we compared changes in care quality and outcomes in 15 nursing homes that adopted the GH model relative to changes over the same time period in 223 matched nursing homes that had not adopted the GH model.

Principal findings

For individuals residing in GH homes, adoption of the model lowered readmissions and several MDS measures of poor quality, including bedfast residents, catheter use, and pressure ulcers, but these results were not presen

SUBMITTER: Afendulis CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5338208 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature