Nursing Home Chain Affiliation and Its Impact on Specialty Service Designation for Alzheimer Disease

• Main Authors: Justin Blackburn PhD (Author), Qing Zheng MA (Author), David C. Grabowski PhD (Author), Richard Hirth PhD (Author), Orna Intrator PhD (Author), David G. Stevenson PhD (Author), Jane Banaszak-Holl PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Specialty care units (SCUs) in nursing homes (NHs) grew in popularity during the 1990s to attract residents while national policies and treatment paradigms changed. Alzheimer disease has consistently been the dominant form of SCU. This study explored the extent to which chain affiliation, which is c...