Mortality rates within 360 days of admission to Medicaid reimbursed long-term care services.
Current long-term care (LTC) initiatives in many states are aimed at reducing cost by diverting certain members of the long-term care population into more cost effective home and community-based care. To date, very little has been done to monitor the subsequent mortality rates in these care situations. This project reports that approximately 35% of the individuals in a single admission cohort to Medicaid-reimbursed LTC in Virginia died within 360 days of their initial admission. When the data are separated by intermediate versus skilled levels of care and institutional versus community-based care settings, substantial differences in mortality rates between levels of care and care settings can be observed.
Travis
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Family and Child Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
McAuley
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D003153:Community Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009026:Mortality; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014768:Virginia