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When individuals need long-term care, information on provider quality is critical to making an informed choice. The major ongoing challenge in the project is preparing the monthly updates to Care Compare and its Five-Star Quality Rating System to support…

Studies indicate that dementia care in the United States is, generally, impersonal and fragmented. Massachusetts requires long-term care facilities to provide dementia care training to direct-care workers. The intention of the regulation was to address…

Infectious diseases can spread quickly through nursing homes, leading to high morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored this, causing over 1.7 million SARS-CoV-2 cases and almost 168,000 deaths among nursing…

This report from Abt and CMS demonstrates that the Nursing Home Compare ratings tool can help identify nursing homes at greater risk of COVID-19.

Providing quality care to the more than 100 million Americans served under Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) requires robust data collection and analysis of key measures and indicators. As technology has evolved, data…

Abt studied staff turnover in nursing homes and found higher turnover was consistently associated with lower quality of care.

Communities continue to face challenges accessing quality behavioral health care and services. Abt helps SAMHSA advance behavioral health excellence 

TSPi is using agile teams to modernize the financial management portion of the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s information technology portfolio.