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Description And Evaluation Of An Interprofessional Patient Safety Course For Health Professions And Related Sciences Students, Debra Gerardi Jan 2006

Description And Evaluation Of An Interprofessional Patient Safety Course For Health Professions And Related Sciences Students, Debra Gerardi

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Team Disputes At End-Of-Life: Toward An Ethic Of Collaboration, Debra Gerardi Jan 2006

Team Disputes At End-Of-Life: Toward An Ethic Of Collaboration, Debra Gerardi

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Clinical Case Mix And Other Challenges To Detroit's Medicaid-Dependent Nursing Homes, Richard L. Douglass, William Lavery, Paul Bridgewater, Gloria Long, Joyce Blair Jan 2006

Clinical Case Mix And Other Challenges To Detroit's Medicaid-Dependent Nursing Homes, Richard L. Douglass, William Lavery, Paul Bridgewater, Gloria Long, Joyce Blair

Michigan Journal of Public Health

Nursing homes that care for the poor in Detroit are frequently dependent upon Medicaid as their principal source of revenue. These facilities face numerous challenges because they face limited resources for maintenance of facilities, staff and administrative supports, and other normal costs. They lack the kinds of support that are provided in-kind, or by more generous sources of revenue and are often characterized as institutions of poor quality; yet nearly 70% of the nation’s Medicaid-recipient elderly nursing home patients are in for-profit facilities that are sustained largely on Medicaid funding. These facilities are often sources of care for underserved minority …