NHICS
Case Studies to Evaluate the Enforcement Process and Nursing Home Care Related to the Nursing Home Initiative
(Nursing Home Enforcement)

Funded by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Subcontract from: West Virginia Medical Institute
Project Period: 10/01 - 3/03

This is a multi-state and multi-site qualitative research project aiming to provide insight into the effectiveness and accuracy of the nursing home enforcement process through case studies. The study seeks to determine whether the nursing home enforcement process results in nursing staff behavior changes that achieve continuous compliance with the Medicaid/Medicare requirements and lasting correction of cited deficiencies in five specified care areas. The main objectives for this study are: 1) to examine the care nursing facilities provide to residents with specific care problems; 2) to evaluate the accuracy of the surveying agency's assessment of care delivery in the surveyed nursing facilities; and 3) to study the effects of the survey enforcement process on nursing home staff behavior. The data collection for this project is scheduled to begin in the last quarter of 2002 and will continue in the following year.
Key Staff: Kramer, Louwe

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