Identifying Nursing Homes With Diverse Racial and Ethnic Resident Compositions: The Importance of Group Heterogeneity and Geographic Context

John R. Bowblis; Odichinma Akosionu; Weiwen Ng; Tetyana P. Shippee

doi:10.1177/10775587221134870

Identifying Nursing Homes With Diverse Racial and Ethnic Resident Compositions: The Importance of Group Heterogeneity and Geographic Context

John R. Bowblis, Odichinma Akosionu, Weiwen Ng, Tetyana P. Shippee

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Racial/ethnic composition of nursing home (NH) plays a particularly important role in NH quality. A key methodological issue is defining when an NH serves a low versus high proportion of racially/ethnically diverse residents. Using the Minimum Data Set from 2015 merged with Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports, we calculated the racial/ethnic composition of U.S.-based NHs for Black or Hispanic residents specifically, and a general Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) grouping for long-stay residents. We examined different definitions of having a high racial/ethnic composition by varying percentile thresholds of composition, state-specific and national thresholds, and restricting composition to BIPOC residents as well as only Black and Hispanic residents. NHs with a high racial/ethnic composition have different facility characteristics than the average NH. Based on this, we make suggestions for how to identify NHs with diverse racial/ethnic resident compositions.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Medical Care Research and Review
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10775587221134870
State	Accepted/In press - 2022

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (Grant Number R01MD010729, Tetyana P. Shippee, PhD).

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equity
geography
nursing homes
racial/ethnic disparity

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