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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.

Nursing Home Quality

Members of the Statewide Committee for Improving MDS Assessment and Use and QIPMO have developed educational materials to assist long-term care facilities with the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) processes, such as the Minimum Data Set (MDS). Quality Indicators (QIs) derived from the MDS were developed as a way of providing feedback to facilities about their quality of care and provide one way of using the MDS data for quality monitoring and improvement. The MDS team has found that facilities that use their QI reports and on-site clinical consultations with gerontological nursing specialists from the MDS team’s Quality Improvement Program for Missouri (QIPMO) program improve the quality of care they deliver and improve resident outcomes.

Nursing Home Quality Articles

Nursing Outlook

The general state of the science of nursing quality measurement in nonacute care settings has accelerated in the last several years. Examples of current research using large data sets to measure quality of nursing care in nursing homes, home health, and other community-based care delivery are presented. Federally available data sets are reviewed as potential measures of care...

Journal of Nursing Care Quality

Care of the resident with dementia can be both challenging and unpredictable. Activities provided for nursing home residents often have rules and may be a source of frustration for residents with advancing dementia. Snoezelen®, or multisensory therapy, offers a failure-free activity in an enabling environment that can both stimulate and relax the resident with dementia. Good...

Nursing Economics

The article focuses on nursing homes costs and quality of care outcomes. Consumers are demanding mechanisms that will allow them to evaluate the quality of care provided in nursing homes. Policymakers, who are responsible for oversight of the public funding of more than 70% of patient days in nursing home care and approximately two-thirds of expenditures on nursing home care...

Journal of Nursing Care Quality

The last decade has seen a substantial growth in the development of residential care facilities (assisted-living facilities). Evaluation of the quality of care in this service delivery sector has been hampered by the lack of a consensus definition of quality and the lack of reliable instruments to measure quality. Founded on extensive research on nursing home care quality, a...

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: 7/1/99-6/30/13
Total Amount: $7,835,307
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: In congruence with the mission of NINR to promote and improve the health of individuals, families, communities, and popula...
Principal Investigator:  Debra Oliver
Dates of Project Period: 9/15/10-6/30/14
Total Amount: $2,105,700
Summary: The K08 application outlines a five-year plan to support a candidate who is already contributing to clinical research in lo...
Principal Investigator:  Greg Alexander
Dates of Project Period: 9/30/07-9/29/12
Total Amount: $518,782