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  • The Quality Improvement Program for Missouri's Long - Term Care Facilities (QIPMO) is committed to Missouri's Elderly.

  • The "Aging-in-place" model allows older adults to receive health care in their preferred place of living, eliminating the need for a more restricted living space, such as a nursing home.

  • TigerPlace is a specially designed elder housing project initiated by the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, working to provide elders a better quality of life.

MDS Analysis

The MU MDS and Quality Research Team, which began work in 1993, is an interdisciplinary group committed to conducting research that will help nursing homes in Missouri deliver high quality services to its residents. The team specifically focuses on the use of the MDS data for quality improvement and monitoring resident outcomes of care. The MDS team has made extensive use of information contained in Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment forms to improve resident care. The MDS data provides a wealth of information about each resident’s needs and outcomes of care can also be interpreted from the data.

MDS Analysis Articles

Research in Gerontological Nursing
- Year Published: 2012

OBJECTIVES: To compare the cost to the Medicare and Medicaid programs between a community-based long-term care program called “Aging in Place” (AIP) and nursing home care.

DESIGN: A retrospective cohort design where AIP participants were matched to nursing home residents on admission quarter, age, ADL, and cognitive status and followed for 12 months. SETTING and PARTI...

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
- Year Published: 2011

Purpose: A comprehensive multilevel intervention was tested to build organizational capacity to create and sustain improvement in quality of care and subsequently improve resident outcomes in nursing homes in need of improvement. Intervention facilities (n=29) received a two-year multilevel intervention with monthly on-site consultation from expert nurses with graduate educa...

Journals of Gerontological Nursing
- Year Published: 2011

Depression affects approximately 30% to 40% of nursing home residents but frequently goes unrecognized. Using the Missouri Minimum Data Set, we aimed to determine whether changes in clinical status, other than mood changes, were associated with new depression diagnosis in residents 65 and older without a recorded depression diagnosis. Of 127,587 potential participants, 14,37...

Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application, & Services
- Year Published: 2011
Journal of Gerontological Nursing
- Year Published: 2007

Ongoing problems with nursing home care mandates understanding nursing home staff's perspectives on innovative quality improvement programs. This follow-up study used focus groups to examine the experiences of staff who participated in a clinical trial that involved Quality Indicator (QI) feedback reports, quality improvement training, and APN consultation. The authors found...

All Research Grants

List all Research & Projects Grants
Summary: The major goal of this project is to design and evaluate the effectiveness of a quality improvement program for Missouri nu...
Principal Investigator:  Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 7/1/99-6/30/12
Total Amount: $7,015,307
Summary: The major goal of this project is to design and evaluate the effectiveness of a quality improvement program for Missouri nu...
Principal Investigator:  Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 11/1/02-7/31/11
Total Amount: $1,027,928
Summary: In this study, we seek to improve the outcomes of residents by transforming poorly performing nursing home staffs into good...
Principal Investigator:  Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 5/1/05-2/28/11
Total Amount: $2,888,334
Summary: This study informs research and clinical practice by identifying actual care coordination intervention activities and dose,...
Principal Investigator:  Lori Popejoy
Dates of Project Period: 8/17/11-7/31/13
Total Amount: $450,661
Principal Investigator:  Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 1/1/03-9/30/06
Total Amount: $370,000