Proposing A Racism-Conscious Approach To Policy Making And Health Care Practices: Article proposes a racism-concious health policy framework

SA Fashaw-Walters, CM McGuire - Health Affairs, 2023 - healthaffairs.org
Racial and ethnic health inequities are driven by multiple social and political factors. Race-
neutral policies that overlook the role of racism in policy and in disparities may also …

Getting to the root: examining within and between home health agency inequities in functional improvement

SA Fashaw‐Walters, M Rahman… - Health services …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To quantify racial, ethnic, and income‐based disparities in home health (HH)
patients' functional improvement within and between HH agencies (HHAs). Data Sources …

[HTML][HTML] Differences in Home Health Services and Outcomes Between Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage

RA Prusynski, A D'Alonzo, MP Johnson… - JAMA Health …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans recently surpassed traditional Medicare
(TM) in enrollment. However, MA plans are facing scrutiny for burdensome prior …

Claims-Based vs Agency-Reported Patient Outcomes Among Home Health Agencies, 2013-2019

AC Chen, CX Fu, DC Grabowski - JAMA Network Open, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Given the growth of home health agency (HHA) care, it is important to
understand whether quality reporting programs, such as star ratings, are associated with …

Skilled nursing facility staffing shortages: Sources, strategies, and impacts on staff who stayed

NE Leland, RA Prusynski, AD Shore… - Health Services …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine skilled nursing facility (SNF) staffing shortages across job roles during
the COVID‐19 pandemic. We aimed to capture the perspectives of leaders on the breadth of …

Implementation of US Post-Acute Care Payment Reform and COVID-19 Policies: Examining Experiences of Health System Leaders, Staff, Patients, and Family …

NE Leland, SA Rouch, RA Prusynski, AD Shore… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In fiscal year 2020, new national Medicare payment models were implemented in the two
most common post-acute care settings (ie, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and home health …

Inequities In The Use Of High-Quality Home Health/The Author Replies

M Steele-Adjognon, I Cintina, L Koenig… - Health …, 2023 - search.proquest.com
Shekinah A. Fashaw-Walters and colleagues (February 2022) found that Black home health
users in Medicare were less likely to receive care from a high-quality home health agency …