Health impacts of nursing home staffing

JAMA Health Forum

2026-01-16

(Press-News.org) About The Study: This case-control study found that a Medicaid policy that incentivized high nursing home staffing levels was associated with modest improvement in some dimensions of patient health. However, even modest effects are extremely meaningful at scale: these estimates suggest that if a similar reform were adopted nationally, there would be 6,142 fewer hospitalizations each year.

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Andrew Olenski, PhD, email ano223@lehigh.edu.

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(doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.6272)

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