Study recommends adding measures of staffing instability to Care Compare

May 26, 2023 | Research Studies of PBJ Data, Nursing HPRD & Turnover

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Study recommends adding measures of staffing instability to Care Compare

This study examines how measures of staffing—turnover and instability—are associated with one another and how they independently contribute to quality of care in nursing homes.  A total of 11,840 nursing homes nationally reporting data on daily staffing and staffing turnover.
Instability and turnover in total nursing home staffing independently contribute to nursing home quality. This suggests that adding measures of staffing instability to the existing measures of average staffing and staff turnover in NHCC may enhance the report card’s value for providers engaged in quality improvement and consumers searching for high-quality nursing homes.

Published May 26, 2023

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Sinha, Soham, et al. “New Dimensions of Staffing Patterns in Nursing Homes and Nursing Home Quality: Comparing Staffing Instability to Staffing Turnover.” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, vol. 24, no. 8, Elsevier BV, Aug. 2023, pp. 1099-1105.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2023.04.009.

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Recommendation Issued for Making Staffing Instability a Care Compare Quality Measure

Higher staffing levels contribute to better scores on quality measures suggesting that Care Compare for nursing homes could benefit from adding a measure for staffing instability.

This is the recommendation of a study published in the August issue of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA), which revealed that both staffing instability and turnover play a significant role in nursing home quality.

The study, encompassing data from 11,840 nursing homes, included data from the Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) for daily staffing information and merged it with Nursing Home Care Compare (NHCC) data for nursing home characteristics, total staffing turnover, and nursing home quality.

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Grebbin, Shelby. “Recommendation Issued for Making Staffing Instability a Care Compare Quality Measure.” Skilled Nursing News, Aug. 2023, skillednursingnews.com/2023/08/recommendation-issued-for-making-staffing-instability-a-care-compare-quality-measure.

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