Finding Disparities in the Stars: Using the Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System to Identify Disparities in Nursing Home Quality for Older Adults with Severe Mental Illness

The new study by Temkin-Greener and colleagues1 contributes to a growing body of literature establishing that older adults with severe mental illness (SMI) are more likely to receive care from lower quality nursing homes, compared with older adults without mental illness. Temkin-Greener et  al. used data from Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System to highlight this disparity in novel manner.

Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - April 20, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Ivy Benjenk, Jie Chen Tags: Invited Perspective Source Type: research