AAHSA ACTION Long-Term Care Network

The AAHSA Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION) initiative is part of a program developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to promote innovation in health care delivery. This will be accomplished by accelerating the development, implementation, diffusion and uptake of demand-driven and evidence-based products, tools and strategies.

The goal is to turn research into practice by linking many of the nation's largest health care systems with its top health services researchers.

IFAS is the prime contractor for the ACTION LTC Network, which includes:

• Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society.
• International Severity Information Systems/Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research.
• University of Kansas Medical Center's Center on Aging.
• Penn State Center for Health Care and Policy Research.
• Quality Partners of Rhode Island.

Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Contact Helaine Resnick about this project

The National Nursing Home Survey

AAHSA staff will be conducting ongoing analysis of the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey. This survey is a public use data set that collected information on a representative sample of 1,174 U.S. nursing homes and 13,507 residents of these facilities. Topics of current analyses include:

• The prevalence of correlates of diabetes among United States nursing homes residents.
• The under diagnosis of sleep apnea among United States nursing home residents.
• The prevalence and types of advanced directives among United States nursing home residents.
• Characteristics of United States nursing home residents who are admitted to emergency departments.

Contact Helaine Resnick about this project

The National Nursing Assistant Survey

In addition to current reports on U.S. nursing homes and their residents, additional analyses are being conducted on the National Nursing Assistant Survey, the first nationally representative survey of nursing assistants. Topics of current analyses on this survey include:

• Comparisons between U.S.- and foreign-born nursing assistants and differences between these groups in perceptions of nursing supervisors.
• The role of language and culture of nursing assistants in relation to job satisfaction.
• Facility ownership status in relation to nursing assistants' job satisfaction.

Contact Janice Heineman about this project.