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A list of reports and publications produced by the Center for PAS with links to abstracts and information about obtaining the complete publication. Reports can also be viewed by audience, state or searched for by keyword(s):

Beynon, M. & Kitchener, M. (2005). Ranking the 'balance' of state long-term care systems: A comparative exposition of the SMARTER and CaRBS techniques. Health Care Management Science, Pgs. 157-166.
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Carder, P.C. & Hernandez, M. (2004). Consumer discourse in assisted living. Journal of Gerontology, Volume 59B(2), Pgs. S58-S67.
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Collier, E. & Harrington, C. (2008). Staffing characteristics, turnover rates and quality of resident care in nursing facilities. Research in Gerontological Nursing, 1, 3, 157-170.
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Dalby, D.M., Kirdes, J.P.; Fries, B.E. (2005) Risk adjustment methods for home care quality indicators (HCQIs) based on the minimum data set for home care. BMC Health Services Research.
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Diwan, S., Shugarman, L.R. & Fries, B.E. (2004). Problem identification and care plan responses in a home and community-based services program. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 23, 3, 193-211.
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D’Souza, J.C., James, M.L., Szafara, K.L., Fries, B.E. (2009). Hard Times: The Effects of Financial Strain on Home Care Services Use and Participant Outcomes in Michigan. The Gerontologist, Vol. 49, No. 2, 154–165
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Fries, B.E., James, M., Hammer, S.S., Shugarman, L.R., Morris, J.N. 2004. Is Telephone Screening Feasible? Accuracy and Cost-Effectiveness of Identifying Persons Medically Eligible for Home- and Community-Based Services. The Gerontologist, 44(5):680-688.
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Grossman, B., M. Kitchener, J. Mullan, and C. Harrington. 2007. Paid Personal Assistance Services: An Exploratory Study of Working Age Consumers' Perspectives. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 19 (3): 27-45.
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Harrington, C. & Ng, T. (March 2009). Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Data, 2005. Published on the Center for PAS website: http://pascenter.org/medicaid/index.php
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Harrington, C. and Kang, T. (2008) Disparities in service utilization and expenditures for individuals with developmental disabilities. Disability and Health Journal. Volume 1, Issue 4, October 2008.
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Harrington, C., and O'Meara, J. (2005). Snapshot: California's Fragile Nursing Home Industry. California Healthcare Foundation, Oakland, CA.
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Harrington, C., Anzaldo, S., Burdin, A., Kitchener, M. and Miller, M. 2005. Trends in State Certificate of Need and Moratoria Programs for Long Term Care Providers. Journal of Health and Social Policy, 19 (2):31-58.
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Harrington, C., Carrillo, H., & LaCava, C. (2006). Nursing Facilities, Staffing, Residents, and Facility Deficiencies, 1999 through 2005. University of California, San Francisco.
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Harrington, C., Carrillo, H., & Mercado-Scott, C. (2005). Nursing facilities, staffing, residents, and facility deficiencies, 1998 through 2004. University of California, San Francisco.
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Harrington, C., Chapman, S., Miller, E., Miller, N., and Newcomer, R. (2005). Trends in the supply of long-term-care facilities and beds in the United States. Journal of Applied Gerontology 24(4) 265-282.
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Harrington, C., Kang, T. & Chang, J. (April 2009). Factors Associated With Living in Developmental Centers in California. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 108–124.
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Harrington, C., Ng, T., Kaye, S. & Newcomer, R. (January 2009). Home and Community-Based Services: Public Policies to Improve Access, Costs, and Quality. University of California, San Francisco. Published on the Center for PAS website.
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Harrington, C., O’Meara, J. (2004). Report on California's Nursing Homes, Home Health Agencies, and Hospice Programs Prepared for the California HealthCare Foundation for California Nursing Home Search - www.calnhs.org. Retrieved from the Center for PAS website http://pascenter.org/documents/CCIS_Overview.pdf
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Harrington, C., Swan, J.H., and Carrillo, H. 2007. Nursing Staffing and Medicaid Reimbursement Rates. Health Services Research, 42 (3): 1105-1129.
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Kaye, H.S., LaPlante, M.P., & Harrington, C. (2009) Do Non-institutional Long-Term Care Services Reduce Medicaid Spending? Health Affairs 28, no. 1 (2009): 262–272.
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Kitchener M., Beynon, M., & Harrington, C. (2004). Explaining the Diffusion of Medicaid Home Care Waiver Programs Using VPRS Decision Rules. Healthcare Management Science 7/3: 237-244.
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Kitchener, M, Hernandez, M, Ng, T, & Harrington, C (2006). Residential Care Provision in Medicaid Home and Community Based Waivers: A National Suty of Program Trends. The Gerontologist, 46, 165-172.
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Kitchener, M. and Harrington, C. 2004. The U.S. Long Term Care Field: A Dialectic Analysis of Institution Dynamics. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 45 (Supplement 1): 87-101.
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Kitchener, M., Bostrom, A., & Harrington, C. (2004) Smoke Without Fire: Nursing Facility Closures, 1997-2001. Inquiry 41/2: 189-202.
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Kitchener, M., Carrillo. H., & Harrington, C. (2004). Medicaid Community-Based Programs: A Longitudinal Analysis of State Variation in Expenditures and Utilization. Inquiry, 40, 375-389.
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Kitchener, M., Ng, T. and Harrington, C. 2007. State Medicaid Home Care Policies: Inside the Black Box. Home Health Care Quarterly, 26 (3): 23-38.
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Kitchener, M., Ng, T., Lee, H.Y. and Harrington, H. (2008) Assistive Technology in Medicaid Home-and Community-Based Waiver Programs. The Gerontologist 48:181-189 (2008).
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Kitchener, M., Ng, T., & Harrington, C. (2004) Medicaid 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Waivers: A National Survey of Eligibility Criteria, Caps and Waiting Lists. Home Health Care Services Quarterly 23/2: 55-69.
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Kitchener, M., Ng, T., and Harrington, C. 2007. Medicaid State Plan Personal Care Services: Trends in Programs and Policies. Journal of Health and Social Policy, 19 (3): 9-26.
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Kitchener, M., Ng, T., and Harrington, C. 2007. Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services for the Elderly: Trends in Programs and Policies. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 26 (3): 303-324.
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Kitchener, M., Ng, T., Carrillo, H. and Harrington, C. 2007. A Longitudinal Analysis of State Variation in the Provision of Personal Care Services. Inquiry. In press.
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Kitchener, M., Ng, T., Carrillo, H., Miller, N., and Harrington, C. (2007). Developing personal care programs: National trends and interstate variation, 1992-2002. Inquiry 44, 69-87.
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Kitchener, M., Ng, T., Grossman, B., & Harrington, C. (2005) Medicaid Waiver Programs for Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of Health and Social Policy 20/3: 51-66
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Kitchener, M., Ng, T., Miller, N. & Harrington C. (2006). Institutional and community-based long-term care: A comparative estimate of public costs. Journal of Health & Social Policy, Vol. 22(2): 31-50. 2006.
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Kitchener, M., Ng, T., Miller, N., & Harrington, C. (2005). Medicaid Home And Community-Based Services: National Program Trends. Health Affairs. 24(1) 206-212.
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Kitchener, M., O’Meara, J., Brody, A., Lee, H.Y., Harrington, C. (2007). Shareholder Value and the Performance of a Large Nursing Home Chain. Health Services Research. In press.
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Kitchener, M., Willmott, M. & Harrington, C. (11/2004). Home and Community-Based Services: Medicaid Research and Demonstration Waivers. Published on the Center for PAS website: http://pascenter.org/demo_waivers/demoWaiverReport_2004.php
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Kitchener, M., Willmott, M., & Harrington, C. (11/2004). Home and Community-Based Service Programs: Selected Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grants to States. Published on the Center for PAS website: http://www.pascenter.org/foundation_grants/index.php
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Kitchener, M., Willmott, M., Alameida, M., Wong, A. and Harrington, C. (2008). Introduction to Olmstead Lawsuits and Olmstead Plans. Retrieved from http://pascenter.org/olmstead/index.php
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Kitchener, M., Willmott, M., Wong, A. & Harrington, C. (11/2006). Federal Systems Change Grants to States and Territories: 2001-2005. Retrieved from http://pascenter.org/systemschange/index.php
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Kitchener, M., Willmott, M., Wong, A. & Harrington, C. (11/2006). Home and Community-Based Services: Medicaid Research and Demonstration Waivers. Published on the Center for PAS website. http://pascenter.org/demo_waivers/demoWaiverReport_2006.php
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Kitchener, M., Willmott, M., Wong, A. & Harrington, C. (4/2007). Home and Community-Based Services: Federal Funding to States. Published on the Center for PAS Website: http://www.pascenter.org/federal_funding_to_states/
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Kitchener, M., Willmott, M., Wong, A., & Harrington, C. (December 2006) Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care: An Introduction.
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Kitchener, M., Wong, A., Willmott, M. & and Harrington, C. (2/2007). Home & Community-Based Services: State-Only Funded Programs. Published on the Center for PAS website: http://pascenter.org/state_funded/index.php
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LaPlante, M., Kaye, H.S., Kang, T., and Harrington, C. (2004). Unmet need for personal assistance services: Estimating the shortfall in hours of help and adverse consequences. J. Gerontol. B. Psychol. Sci. Soc. Sci. 2004 59: S98-S108.
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LaPlante, M.P., Harrington, C., & Kang, T. (2002). Estimating paid and unpaid hours of personal assistance services in activities of daily living provided to adults living at home. Health Services Research, 37(2): 397-415.
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LaPlante, M.P., Kaye, H.S. and Harrington, C. 2007. Estimating the Expense of a Mandatory Home- and Community-Based Personal Assistance Services Benefit Under Medicaid. Journal of Health and Social Policy, 19 (3): 47-64.
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Li, L.W. and Fries, B.E. 2005. Elder Disability as an Explanation of Racial Differences in Informal Home Care. Gerontologist, 45(2): 206-215.
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Miller, N.A. 2005. State Strategies to Support Community Based Long Term Care, Journal of Health and Social Policy, 20 (4): 1-30.
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Miller, N.A. and Weinstein, M. 2007. Participation and Knowledge Related to a Nursing Home Admission Decision among a Working Age Population. Social Science & Medicine, 64 (2):303-313.
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Miller, N.A., Elder, K.T., Kitchener, M., Kang, Y and Harrington, C. (2008). Medicaid 1915(c) Waiver Use and Expenditures for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS. Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, 338-355 (2008)
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Miller, N.A., Rubin, A., Elder, K.T., Kitchener, M., and Harrington, C. 2006. Strengthening Home and Community Based Care Through Medicaid Waivers. Journal of Health and Social Policy, 18 (1): 1-16.
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Miller, NA, Elder, KT, Rubin, A, Kitchener, M, & Harrington, C (2006). Strengthening Home and Community Based Care Through Medicaid Waivers. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 18, 1-16.
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Miller, NA, Kitchener, M, Elder, KT, Kang, Y, Rubin, A, & Harrington, C (2005). Variation by Disability in State Predictors of Medicaid 1915c Waiver Use and Expenditures. The Gerontologist, 45, 764-772.
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Newcomer, R. T. Clay, K. Yaffe, K. Covinsky. 2005. Medicare Expenditures at the End of Life for Persons with Dementia. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 53 (11): 2001-2006.
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Newcomer, R., Kang, T., LaPlante, M., and Kaye, S. (2005). Living quarters and unmet need for personal care assistance among adults with disabilities. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 60B(4): S205-S213.
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Newcomer, R., T. Kang, C. Graham. 2007. Outcomes in a nursing home transition case management program targeting new admissions. Gerontologist, 46: 385-390.
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Ng, T., Harrington, C., and O’Malley, M. 2008. Medicaid Home and Community Based Service Programs: Data Update. December.Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
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Ng, T., Kitchener, M., and Harrington, C. (2005). Medicaid Home Care Waivers for Persons with HIV/AIDS: Program Expenditures, Participants and Policies. AIDS and Public Policy Journal 19/3,4: 95-109
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PHI (2008). State Chart Book On Wages For Personal And Home Care Aides, 1999‐2006. (July 2008) Prepared for the Center for Personal Assistance Services by PHI.
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Ripple, J.M. & Stoddard, S. (2005). California Statewide Independent Living Needs Assessment 2003-2004. California State Independent Living Council, Sacramento, CA.
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Swan, J.H., Harrington, C., Dryer, K., Pickard, R.B., Covert, J.M. & Gulur, P. (2007) Medicaid Nursing Facility Payment in the Face of State Fiscal Meltdown. Long Term Care Interface. In Press.
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Tonner, C. and Harrington, C. 2004. Nursing Facility and Home and Community Based Service Need Criteria in the United States. Home Health and Community Services Quarterly, 22 (4): 65-83.
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Waterstone, D., Kang, T., Flores, C., Howes, C., Harrington, C. & Newcomer, R. (2004) California's In-Home Supportive Services program: Who is served? Published on the Center for PAS website http://www.pascenter.org/documents/IHSS_Final_Report.pdf
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Wiener, J.M. (March 2009) Long-term care: Options in an era of health reform. Washington, DC: The SCAN Foundation.
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Wiener, J.M. Long-Term Care: Options In An Era Of Health Reform. Washington, DC: The SCAN Foundation. Expanded Edition April 2009.
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