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Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing

14 Jun 2022

Cortés and Tessada 2011, Farré, González, and Ortega 2011, Furtado 2016) and are not eligible to become NAs if they lack legal status.7 The last part of the paper investigates the role of market structure in the nursing home market in mediating the effect of the immigration-induced increases in the local supply of nurses on quality of care in nursing homes. [...] We focus on three main measures of quality of care: the number of fallen residents over the previous 30 days (Falls), the number of residents that were restrained at the time of data collection (Restrained), and the number of (long-stay) residents with pressure ulcers (PU).9 We chose to focus on these measures of nursing home quality because they crucially depend on the quantity and quality of nur. [...] It also includes nursing home specific characteristics such as the average acuity of nursing home residents, the proportion of nursing homes that are for-profit, the proportion that are multifacility, and the proportion that are hospital- based.17 Our most important control variable is the acuity index, which measures the average nursing needs of the nursing home’s residents based on the number of. [...] Immigration and Quality of Care in Nursing Homes The goal of this section is to estimate the effects of immigration on the quality of care provided by nursing homes at the level of commuting zones. [...] On the basis of the 2SLS estimates with the BCHTT instrument (in the specification with controls), the arrival of 1,000 immigrants to a commuting zone lowers the number of fallen residents by 1.9, the number of restrained residents by 7.1, and the number of residents with pressure ulcers by 1.1.
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60
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United Kingdom