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Home Health Agencies & Home Health Care: An Examination of Financial Performance, Quality, and Micro-Costing
Home health represents a key healthcare delivery provider for millions of Americans. Amongst those receiving home health care, approximately 3 million are Medicare recipients. Home health agencies (HHAs) are a key provider as there are roughly 11,500 HHAs providing home health services ranging from …
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Three Papers On Home Health Care Services In The United States
… need both short and long-term care services. Home-based care services are often preferred over facilities because of comfort, lower costs, and better health outcomes. Yet, home health care is beset with a number of challenges, including labor shortages and low-paid aides who experience high …
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Economic Determinants Of Quality Of Care In Nursing Homes
… DETERMINANTS OF QUALITY OF CARE IN NURSING HOMES</p> <p>This dissertation examines the factors that will affect nursing home quality of care using several national data sources on market regulation, county demographic characteristics, market structural and the characteristics of different …
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Applying economics analysis to the U.S. health care system: evidence from nutrition and home health care
… 1: Adequate nutrition plays an important role in healthy aging. Although poor diet is a strong predictor of chronic diseases, the causal impacts of diet quality on health care utilization have rarely been explored. This study fills the gap by applying an instrumental variables (IV) approach, …