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Serious Mental Illness In Nursing Homes: Quality Concerns, Dylan J. Jester
Serious Mental Illness In Nursing Homes: Quality Concerns, Dylan J. Jester
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Objective: This dissertation is made of two academic papers followed by a chapter discussing policy implications of the findings. The objective of this dissertation is to better understand if high-serious mental illness (SMI) nursing homes (NHs) provide poorer quality of care (e.g., operationalized as staffing levels, NH Compare quality star ratings, and health deficiencies) and whether quality in high-SMI NHs is confounded by payer mix (e.g., the proportion of residents who are Medicaid-reimbursed). A modified Donabedian Structure, Process, Outcome (SPO) Model was used as the main theoretical framework.
Methods: Data came from the Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) …