For the main analysis of nursing home staffing, the Center for Public Integrity downloaded the 2012 Medicare cost reports for skilled nursing facilities. The Center extracted data about the number of ...

I was generously assisted in my reporting by multiple nursing home experts, including: Bita Kash, a professor of health policy at Texas A&M University; Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, a data reporter and ...

The Proposal Design and Methods (PDM) service provides consultation on methodological design, database development, management and analyses, and support for statistical, quantitative, qualitative and ...

WASHINGTON – Nearly a third of the nation's nursing homes are getting lower scores on the government's five-star quality scale, a reflection of tougher standards for ratings used by nearly 1.5 million ...

More than a million public records were used to assess whether nursing homes were meeting state staffing minimums. By Jordan Rau and Holly K. Hacker The KFF Health News data analysis focused on five ...

SUMMARY: We are issuing this advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to solicit public comments on potential options we may consider for revising certain aspects of the existing skilled nursing ...