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Attitudes and Experiences of Frontline Nursing Home Staff Towards Coronavirus Testing

The Indiana State Department of Health tested nursing home staff for COVID-19 in June 2020. A survey of staff found many felt physical discomfort, some questioned testing the asymptomatic, but a majority agreed testing is important.This work was supported by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Funding Opportunity 1E1CMS331488). The opinions expressed in this article are the authors' own and do not reflect the view of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Kathleen T. Unroe is the CEO of Probari, a health care start-up designed to disseminate a successful registered nurse–based clinical care model in NHs

WORKING: The Newsletter of the New York Makes Work Pay Initiative

WELCOME to the inaugural issue of Working, a print and elec¬tronic newsletter produced by the New York Makes Work Pay Initiative. This Initiative is a Comprehensive Employment Ser¬vices Medicaid Infrastructure Grant funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) and its management partners the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syra¬cuse University and the Employment and Disability Institute (EDI) at Cornell University. The New York Makes Work Pay Initiative is currently funded for calendar years 2009 and 2010 and will provide an array of services to individuals with disabilities, the agencies and advocates that serve them, and employers, helping to remove obstacles to work and pave the way to self-supporting employment

Working: The Newsletter of the NY Makes Work Pay Initiative. Issue 1, April 2009

elcome to the inaugural issue of Working, a print and electronic newsletter produced by the New York Makes Work Pay Initiative. This Initiative is a Comprehensive Employment Services Medicaid Infrastructure Grant funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) and its management partners the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University and the Employment and Disability Institute (EDI) at Cornell University. The New York Makes Work Pay Initiative is currently funded for calendar years 2009 and 2010 and will provide an array of services to individuals with disabilities, the agencies and advocates that serve them, and employers, helping to remove obstacles to work and pave the way to self-supporting employment. To learn more about this initiative, go to www.NYMakesWorkPay.org

Nursing School Makes MU History

Published Nov. 5, 2012."MU's largest research grant will improve care for older adults. ... Marilyn Rantz has been busy. On Nov. 5, 2012, the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing announced MU researchers, led by Rantz, secured a $14.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) -- the largest research award in the history of the university. This comes only three weeks after Rantz, a Curators' Professor of nursing, was admitted to the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the field."Story by Kelsey Allen

Initiation of communication by persons with severe aphasia during group treatment

The viability of group treatment in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) is at a crossroads. While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has not yet established standards for group therapy in IRFs, they have stated that the standard for care in these settings is individualized therapy (Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2009). CMS limitations of the size and frequency of group therapy in other settings suggests that CMS believes group treatment is of a lesser quality when compared with individual treatment. This is a critical time for research demonstrating the unique benefits of SLP group treatment in acute rehabilitatio

In Search of Dental Care: Two Types of Dentist Shortages Limit Children's Access to Care

Each year in the United States, tens of millions of children, disproportionately low-income, go without seeing a dentist.This lack of access to dental care is a complex problem fueled by a number of factors, with two different dentist shortages compounding the issue: An uneven distribution of dentists nationwide means many areas do not have an adequate supply of these practitioners. As a result, access to care is constrained for people in these communities regardless of income or insurance coverage.The relatively small number of dentists who participate in Medicaid means that many low-income people are not receiving dental care.National standards set by dental and pediatric organizations call for children to visit a dentist every six months.The federal government requires state Medicaid programs to enact their own standards after consulting with these organizations, but new data show that more than 14 million children enrolled in Medicaid did not receive any dental service in 2011.According to the most recent comparison, in 2010, privately insured children were almost 30 percent more likely to receive dental care than those who were publicly insured through Medicaid or other government programs, even though low-income children are almost twice as likely as their wealthier peers to develop cavities.4 In 22 states, fewer than half of Medicaid-enrolled children received dental care in 2011.In 2012, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, secretary of health and human services under President George H.W. Bush, said, "In a nation obsessed with high-tech medicine, people are not getting preventive care for something as simple as tooth decay." He pointed to the inadequate dental workforce as a driving factor, stating, "The shortage of dental care is going to get only worse."This issue brief examines the lack of access to dental care, especially for low-income children and families, in the United States. It also explores strategies states are employing -- particularly expansion of the dental team by licensing additional types of providers -- to address workforce shortages and better serve low-income children

How Much Does the Federal Government Spend to Promote Economic Mobility and for Whom?

Tracks and projects federal expenditures and tax subsidies aimed at enhancing economic mobility, such as employer-related work subsidies, homeownership, savings and investment incentives, and education and training, and who benefits from them

Paving the Way to Simpler: Experiencing from Maximizing Enrollment States in Streamlining Eligibility and Enrollment

Since 2009, the eight states (Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin) participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Maximizing Enrollment program have worked to streamline and simplify enrollment systems, policies, and processes for children and those eligible for health coverage in 2014. The participating states aimed to reduce enrollment barriers for consumers and administrative burdens in processing applications and renewals for staff by making improvements and simplifications at every step of the enrollment process. Although the states began their work before the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), their efforts positioned them well for implementation in 2014, and offer experiences and lessons that other states may find useful in their efforts to improve efficiency, lower costs, and promote responsible stewardship of limited public resources