Professor, Health Services Research, University of Rochester - aging, long-term care, palliative and hospice care, organizational performance

Rochester, NY
Joined March 2019
Helena Temkin-Greener retweeted
Working in a nursing home is the most dangerous job in America. Basic measures are needed so front line workers can care for loved ones without risking their lives. ⁦@LoriPorterNAHCA⁩, ⁦@DavidCGrabowski⁩, and I in ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Nursing Home Staffing: Research Highlights Relationship Between COVID-19 and Staffing Friday, July 17, 2020 - 2:00pm ET REGISTER us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Helena Temkin-Greener retweeted
Yes, many of the quality and staffing issues are led to by financial strains of the organization.
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Helena Temkin-Greener retweeted
Replying to @iBookCC
@iBookCC listening to your latest covid podcast and wondering if exogenous surfactant would be worth a try for these patients once they progress to ARDS?
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Healthcare providers face imminent shortages of PPE. Contact your Senators and your Representative: senate.gov/general/contact_i…... house.gov/representatives/fi… TELL THEM YOU'RE A CONSTITUENT, and express the need for more PPE to be produced as part of the Defense Production Act NOW.
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Complete the survey by 2/16 and your AL community may win $500 #assistedliving #SeniorCare
Assisted Living Leaders please help make this survey a success... click links below as appropriate to complete #assistedliving #seniorcare For Administrators, click here: is.gd/admin_email For Assisted Living Direct Care Staff, click here: lnkd.in/g2Wh45u
Helena Temkin-Greener retweeted
Every summer @MathematicaNow hosts doctoral students who pursue independent research projects with support from Mathematica mentors. I interviewed our 2019 summer fellows for the #OnTheEvidence podcast: mathematica.org/commentary/w…
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Assisted Living Leaders please help make this survey a success... click links below as appropriate to complete #assistedliving #seniorcare For Administrators, click here: is.gd/admin_email For Assisted Living Direct Care Staff, click here: lnkd.in/g2Wh45u
Investigators from the @UofR , in partnership with CEAL & 9 national organizations representing providers, advocates, & other stakeholders in assisted living (AL) are conducting a national survey focusing on quality of resident care. Read more here: bit.ly/2sAhawD
LONG TERM CARE LEADER: Participate in Research on Work Environment in Assisted Living. #assistedliving #seniorcare longtermcareleader.com/2019/…
See Brian McGarry’s comment in the Washington Post, also picked up in the NYTimes. Way to go!!!
Enjoyed talking with Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar ⁦@AP⁩ for this piece on the new Medicare Plan Finder Tool. Don’t forget to sort your options by total cost! washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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A doctoral student wore a skirt made of rejection letters to defend her dissertation washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
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Helena Temkin-Greener retweeted
“Ratings posted [on] Facebook, Yelp, Google..correlated moderately to strongly with experience-of-care ratings. “Social media ratings of nursing homes may offer a new opportunity to incorporate consumer perspectives into existing quality report cards.” ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
Helena Temkin-Greener retweeted
Social media helps with choice of health care providers - our study today doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4… shows that patient ratings for nursing homes on Google & Yelp.com etc. are well correlated with experience of care and "Nursing Home Compare" quality measures.