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| State variations and trends in preadmission screening programs | | Author(s) | Charlene Harrington, Michael Curtis |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 15, no 4, December 1996 |
| Pages | pp 414-432 |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Policy ; Screening ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Nursing home costs have increased dramatically and comprise a large share of state Medicaid budgets. To control the use of nursing home beds, state policy-makers have established pre-admission screening programmes to assess applicants' functional, psychological and medical status to determine whether they are in need of nursing home care. States are becoming increasingly stringent in their screening, and are linking their pre-admission screening programmes to community-based alternatives funded by Medicaid waiver, state general funds, or both. States vary greatly in their programmes' characteristics, including: geographic basis (statewide/local), population screened (Medicaid/private pay), client origin (hospital/community), whether decisions are binding, timing of screening (before or after admission), and who does the assessment (state staff/contract agency/provider). Descriptive data on these and other features of state pre-admission screening programmes from 1978 to 1992 are presented. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980513219 A |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: QAD: 3V: 7T |
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