The Green House Model of Nursing Home Care in Design and Implementation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the Green House (GH) model of nursing home (NH) care, and examine how GH homes vary from the model, one another, and their founding (or legacy) NH.

Data sources/study setting

Data include primary quantitative and qualitative data and secondary quantitative data, derived from 12 GH/legacy NH organizations February 2012-September 2014.

Study design

This mixed methods, cross-sectional study used structured interviews to obtain information about presence of, and variation in, GH-relevant structures and processes of care. Qualitative questions explored reasons for variation in model implementation.

Data collection/extraction methods

Interview data were analyzed using related-sample tests, and qualitative data were iteratively analyzed using a d

SUBMITTER: Cohen LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5338211 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature