Policy Briefs: NASEM Study on the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) issued a set of policy briefs related to the seven goals of the NASEM study on Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes.
The NASEM study resulted in the report, The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families, and Staff, that examines how our nation delivers, regulates, finances and measures the quality of nursing home care. Along with the study, NASEM has released seven policy briefs that provide a concise description of the seven recommendations outlined for The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality:
- "Creating a More Rational and Robust Financing System": The financing brief lays out recommendations that include a rational and robust long-term care financing system to meet the demands of an increasingly aging population with complex care needs.
- "Designing a More Effective and Responsive System of Quality Assurance": The quality assurance brief lays out recommendations that include a more effective and responsive system of quality assurance paired with increased transparency and accountability to ensure high-quality care in nursing home.
- "Ensuring a Well-Prepared, Empowered, and Appropriately Compensated Workforce": The workforce brief lays out recommendations that include ensuring that nursing home workers are well prepared, empowered, and appropriately compensated to improve the overall quality of nursing home care.
- "Adopt Health Information Technology in all Nursing Homes": The health IT brief lays out recommendations that include an effective approach to HIT adoption and use, monitor HIT adoption and interoperability and to train nursing home leadership and staff in core HIT competencies to meet the demands of an increasingly aging population with complex care needs.
- "Deliver Comprehensive, Person-Centered, and Equitable Care to all Nursing Home Residents": The equitable care brief lays out the improvements that need to be made in several critical areas (physical environment, care planning, models of care, and emergency preparedness/response) in order to realize high-quality care for all nursing home residents. Changes to current care practices require response from nursing homes, regulators, funders, developers, government agencies an the broader community.
- "Expand and Enhance Quality Measurement and Continuous Quality Improvement": The quality measure brief examines the complex and multifaceted challenges nursing homes face. The brief highlights expanded and enhanced efforts to improve quality measurement and continuous quality improvement will help distinguish quality of care among individual nursing homes, address disparities in quality and enable nursing homes to acquire the expertise and resources needed to improve quality.
- "Increase Transparency and Accountability of Nursing Home Finances, Operations, and Ownership": The transparency brief notes that increased transparency and accountability for nursing home finances, operations, and ownership are critical to improving the financial investment in nursing home care and to improving quality assurance, both of which contribute to the common goal of improving the quality of care in nursing homes.
Download the policy briefs on the NASEM report publications page.
Read the full NASEM report.
Learn more about NASEM Committee on the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of NASEM.
