Objective To compare staffing levels and deficiencies of the 10 largest US for‐profit nursing
home chains with five other ownership groups and chain staffing and deficiencies before …

Background: As our population ages at an increasing rate, the demand for nursing homes is
rising. The challenge will be for nursing homes to maintain efficiency with limited resources …

Nursing is numerically the largest health profession providing direct care, and this, plus the
imperative for effective cost control, makes their costs and impact a legitimate study focus …

There has been a radical transformation in the provision of adult residential and nursing
home care in England over the past four decades. Up to the 1980s, over 80% of adult …

Residential care services are under increasing pressure to lower service provision costs
while maintaining quality of care. Using a translog cost function, this paper examines the …

Research Objective. To assess the impact of recent Medicare prospective payment system
(PPS) changes on efficiency in skilled nursing homes. Data Source/Study Setting. Medicare …

Aims To propose a new theory pinpointing the optimal nurse staffing threshold delivering the
maximum quality of care relative to attendant costs in home health care. Background Little …

The recent growth of physician‐owned hospitals specializing in orthopedic and surgical
specialty services in the United States has generated considerable controversy, yet there is …

The objective of this paper was to estimate the influence of being affiliated with an NH chain
on perceived consumer quality, and whether this relationship is affected by maintaining a …

Background: Standardization in production is common in multientity chain organizations.
Although chains are prominent in the nursing home sector, standardization in care has not …