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The information critical to a nationwide priority of reducing health care disparities among minorities is incomplete and inaccurate, according to a new Rutgers study.
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New article in the journal Medical Care Research & Review by Irina Grafova and Olga Jarrín.

National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes Campaign: State and Facility Stategies, Impact, and Antipsychotic Reduction Outcomes
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New article in press for the journal Innovation in Aging by Stephen Crystal, Olga Jarrín, Marsha Rosenthal, Richard Hermida, and Beth Angell
Why the Coronavirus May Lessen the Home Health Industry’s Nursing Shortage
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The COVID-19 crisis has uprooted the health care sector and done away with most norms that existed beforehand. That goes for the workers who make up the sector, too. One developing trend to keep an eye on as home-based care plays a bigger part in keeping at-risk seniors safe is the migration of more nurses into the home setting.
What to Do About Your Relatives in Long-Term Care During the Coronavirus Pandemic
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Olga Jarrín was interviewed by Catherine Roberts for this Consumer Reports article: What to Do About Your Relatives in Long-Term Care During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Whether you’re bringing a loved one home or helping them from afar, there are a few key questions to answer
Validity of race/ethnicity codes in Medicare administrative data compared to self-reported race/ethnicity collected during home health care assessments
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New open access article in the journal Medical Care by Olga Jarrín, Abner Nyandege, Irina Grafova, XinQi Dong, and Haiqun Lin.
Demographic Trends, PDGM Forcing Home Health Providers to Get Creative About Staffing
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At-home care organizations across the country are grappling with how to attract and retain staff. Moorestown, New Jersey-based Bayada Home Health Care has tried to solve the industry-wide pain point by exploring creative solutions, including university partnerships. Reasons for at-home care workforce challenges are numerous. On a macro-level, the United States has a rapidly aging
4 Ways to Boost Home Care Around the World
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The number of people over the age of 60 is expected to at least double by 2050, with the over-80 population projected to grow at an even faster rate in many countries. To keep national health care spending down, countries will need to figure out ways to support and encourage care that is delivered in the home, the lowest-cost and oft-preferred setting for older adults.
Study identifies global priorities for improving home care
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Home care experts have called upon global leaders to address the growing demand for domiciliary care with a greater investment in leadership development, health care system redesign, and payment and policy issues.
Rutgers Researcher Leads Study Identifying Global Priorities for Improving Home Care
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HealthNewsDigest.com - In a new study, researchers recommend that healthcare leaders address the growing global demand for home care with a greater investment in delivery, affordability and quality.
International Home Care Nurses Organization study of international priorities for home care education, research, practice, and management
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Available free from the publisher for 50 days, get a copy of our latest article:
Jarrín OF, Pouladi FA, Madigan EA. International priorities for home care education, research, practice, and management: Qualitative content analysis. Nurse Education Today, 2019, 73:83-87. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2018.11.020.

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The majority of U.S. hospitals have room to improve nurses’ work environments and assure adequate nurse staffing to improve patient safety, according to a recent study in Health Affairs.
New Paper: Nurses’ And Patients’ Appraisals Show Patient Safety In Hospitals Remains A Concern
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The Institute of Medicine concluded in To Err Is Human in 1999 that transformation of nurse work environments was needed to reduce patient harm. We studied 535 hospitals in four large states at two points in time between 2005 and 2016 to determine the extent to which their work environments improved, and whether positive changes were associated with greater progress in patient safety. Survey data from thousands of nurses and patients showed that patient safety remains a serious concern. Only 21 percent of study hospitals showed sizable improvements in work environment scores, while 7 percent had worse scores. For hospitals in which clinical care environments improved, patients and nurses reported improvements in patient safety indicators. These included increases in percentages of patients rating their hospital favorably and stating that they would definitely recommend the hospital and in percentages of nurses reporting excellent quality of care and giving the hospital a favorable grade on patient safety. Where work environments deteriorated, fewer nurses gave a favorable grade on patient safety. Failure to improve hospital work environments may be hampering progress on patient safety.
Rutgers Catalyst: Healthy Aging Symposium
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The initiative fosters a platform to ignite interdisciplinary and transnational aging research initiatives across Rutgers University. Dr. Jarrín, PhD, RN presented on newest findings regarding the impact of home health care on survival for people living with dementia. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Robin Barr, National Institute on Aging, Director, Division of Extramural Activities.
New grant funding from NIH
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Olga F. Jarrin, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Rutgers, is a co-investigator (and the Rutgers sub-award principal investigator) of an NIH-NIA Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) administrative supplement to the NIH-NINR R01 grant “Panel Study of Effects of Changes in Nursing on Patient Outcomes” Principle Investigator: Linda H. Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing. Co-investigators are Douglas Sloane, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Nursing at Penn, and Irina B. Grafova, PhD, Assistant Professor at Rutgers, School of Public Health. The purpose of this person-centered approach is to determine the impact of nurse education, staffing, skill mix, and work environment on trajectories of care and care outcomes for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Rutgers-VNA Collaboration Awarded Home Health Grant
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NJBiz's write-up about the 2018 home health research grant from the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation that we will receive! Click below to read the full article!
Alliance Awards Grants to Study Value-Based Care, Other Home Health Issues
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We are featured in this article in HHCN along with our fellow AHHQI grant awardees. HHCN touches on why this grant is important in the world of home health care. Click below to read the full article!
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The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation recently announced their three awardees for its 2018 home health research grant funding cycle, and we are honored to be one of its recipients along with Dr. Rosati of the VNA Health Group. The grant will allow us to continue our project and our push for home health care for those living with dementia. Click below to read full article!

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Rutgers Today. By Patti Verbanas. Rutgers and Duke University professors explore how to improve care and reduce the use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes.

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Nursing Times. By Steve Ford. Better working environments, including time to care and access to training, are linked with better patient and workforce outcomes in community nursing, according to the first study of its kind.

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In a new study, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR), and the Rutgers University School of Nursing examined the factors influencing the likelihood of missed nursing care in the home care setting. Their findings indicate that home care nurses with poor work environments are more likely to miss required care.
The relationship between manpower allocation and nursing home patient quality of care
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Wee Siang Tay | January 17, 2017 My name is Wee Siang Tay and I am a Class of 2019 international student from Singapore in the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. I am majoring in Economics and currently work with Dr. Olga Jarrín. Previously, I worked in a frontline clinical setting at a hospital and I served in the military. ...
Home healthcare study will try to ID models of effective treatment
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Lilo H. Stainton | August 8, 2016
How do patients from various ethnic and economic backgrounds respond to different models of homecare? As healthcare continues to evolve, homecare providers are playing an expanding role protecting the health of senior citizens, disabled individuals, patients with chronic diseases, and those discharged from the hospital with a need for follow-up care. ...
ED visits, work conditions factor into hospital readmission rates
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Karen Utterback | December 1, 2015
A new study confirms a phenomenon long observed by home health workers: emergency room visits are an indicating factor for unplanned readmissions. A study published in the August issue of the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice found that the strongest predictor of readmission is a high number of previous ...

La enfermería como solución de ahorro
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Miquel Hernandis | 23 oct 2015
«Dinero, dinero, dinero, que es lo que la gente entiende». José Antonio Ávila, presidente del Consejo de Enfermería de la Comunidad Valenciana, resumió así de claro el ideario que se marca el colectivo que representa en las Jornadas nacionales que inauguraron ayer en Alicante.

Home is where the care is
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Nurse.com | Noveber 10, 2014
All through nursing school, Melissa Marrero, MSN, RN-BC, was sure she wanted to work in a hospital ICU until she accompanied a home health nurse in New Yorks Chinatown as part of a clinical rotation in community nursing. I was converted during my senior semester, said Marrero, manager of college relations for Visiting Nurse Service of New York. The mystery of what happens to your patients when you send them home you get to see that. ...

Penn study gets $3M to examine changes in nursing practices and patient outcomes
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Dan Verel | Oct 9, 2014
The National Institutes of Nursing Research is putting $3 million toward further research by Linda Aiken, a professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, that is focusing on how changes in nursing practices can improve patient outcomes. The study, which is getting supplemental funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Alex Hillman Foundation, is looking at nursing practices at some 600 hospitals and hundreds more nursing homes and home care agencies ...