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Essentials: Databases and documents to investigate health

Essentials: Databases and documents to investigate health. Jeff Porter Special Projects Director Association of Health Care Journalists jeff@healthjournalism.org www.healthjournalism.org. (and more!). 1. Nursing Home Compare . www.medicare.gov/NHCompare OR

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Essentials: Databases and documents to investigate health

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  1. Essentials: Databasesand documentsto investigate health Jeff Porter Special Projects Director Association of Health Care Journalists jeff@healthjournalism.org www.healthjournalism.org (and more!)

  2. 1. Nursing Home Compare • www.medicare.gov/NHCompare OR • www.healthjournalism.org/data

  3. Identifying potential stories: Counting “Quality Care Deficiencies: Low nursing staff ratings Comparing ownership types

  4. 2. Hospital Compare • www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov OR • www.healthjournalism.org/data

  5. Identifying potential stories Worse at least two years in a row Looking at those with “Worse” rates in 2010

  6. 3. Inspection reports: 2567

  7. Where to get them? • Department of Health (hospital) • DHS Office of Long Term Care (nursing home) • https://ardhs.sharepointsite.net/OLTC (follow the link titled “Public Downloads”) • One caveat – they do not include Plan of Correction, which can be very important. Ask OLTC. • HHS Region 6 offices • www.hhs.gov/about/regions/r6contacts.html • The facility

  8. 4. Focus on finance: 990s, etc. • www.guidestar.org • The institution itself (perhaps a more recent version) • Attorney general’s office

  9. Revenue/expenses Compensation Coming soon

  10. More financial information… • Medicaid spending information: Department of Human Services (www.medicaid.state.ar.us/InternetSolution/Research/newres.aspx; then click “Transforming Arkansas Medicaid”) • Cost report data: www.cms.gov/costreports • Bonds: www.munios.com

  11. Looking at Medicaid payments by provider Cost reports: Complex but full of info

  12. Bond documents can include financial details often unreleased

  13. 5. State of your own community • www.hospitalconsumerassist.com • www.countyhealthratings.org • www.healthy.arkansas.gov/programsServices/healthStatistics/ Hospital-specific pricing information

  14. Ranking Arkansas counties by health factors From simple county profiles to hospital discharge data

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