Socioeconomic and Geographic Disparities in Accessing Nursing Homes With High Star Ratings

The Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services Nursing Home Compare (NHC) serves as the most comprehensive repository of Medicaid- and/or Medicare-certified nursing homes providing services to approximately 1.4 million US residents. A gap in the literature exists in understanding on the national level whether residents from socioeconomically disadvantaged counties experience disparities in the access to nursing homes with higher NHC star ratings. The study aimed to examine nursing home quality variations with regard to county-level socioeconomic, geographic, and metropolitan status, while adjusting for nursing home facility-level characteristics.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - July 5, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Yiyang Yuan, Christopher Louis, Howard Cabral, Jeffrey C. Schneider, Colleen M. Ryan, Lewis E. Kazis Tags: Original Study Source Type: research