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FoCUS Impact

The publications below, which cite one or more FoCUS tools (LTCFoCUS, MAFoCUS, HHFoCUS), demonstrate their impact on health policy and contribute to academic research.

*number before publication/paper represents total citations

Recent Publications

Nurse staffing disparities in nursing homes: Effects of community distress level and COVID-19 .

Yu Jin Kang PhD, MPH , Karen E. Nielsen PhD , Blake T. McGee PhD, MPH, Huiwen Xu PhD (2026)

Associations Between Nursing Home Leadership Turnover and Resident Satisfaction

Jenny H Kwon, PhD , John R Bowblis, PhD (2026)

Where You Are Matters: Neighborhood Impacts on Nursing Home Staffing Levels

Jenny H. Kwon PhD, Xiao Qiu PhD, Samuel Van Vleet PhD (2026)

An Approach to Estimating State-Level Medicaid Nursing Home Spending

Hannah C. Ratliff, Kierstdea R. Petzold, Donovan T. Maust, Kali S. Thomas (2026)

Risk of Seizure Associated With Concomitant Use of Tramadol and Antidepressants in Older Nursing Home Residents

Yu-Jung Jenny, Almut G. Winterstein, Siegfried Schmidt, Roger B. Fillingim, Michael J. Daniels, Steven T. DeKosky, and Stephan Schmidt (2026)

Association of initiating CYP2D6-metabolized opioids with risks of adverse outcomes in older adults receiving antidepressants: A retrospective cohort study

Yu-Jung Jenny, Almut G. Winterstein, Siegfried Schmidt, Roger B. Fillingim, Michael J. Daniels, Steven T. DeKosky, and Stephan Schmidt (2026)

Moderators of Adherence Within a Nursing Home Pragmatic Trial of Personalized Music

Jacy A Weems, MPH , Grace F Wittenberg, BS , Rosa R Baier, MPH , Ann Reddy, MPH , Ellen McCreedy, PhD (2026)

The National Dementia Workforce Study: The Plan for Organization Sample Frames and Data Collection

James Wagner, Laura M. Wagner, Sheryl Zimmerman, Johanna van Tyen Silbersack Hickey, Kate Stewart, Sandi Nelson, Ji Qi, Raphael NishimuraPiotr Dworak, Margaret Hudson, Jennifer Kelley, Heidi Guyer, Amy R. Pettit, Donovan T. Maust, Joanne Spetz (2026)

County Influenza Vaccination Rates and Antibiotic Prescribing Rates in US Nursing Homes

Quynh T. Vo, Farzad Noubary, PhD, and Becky A. Briesacher, PhD (2026)

P-369. Skilled Nursing Facility Characteristics Associated with Candida auris Transmission in Maryland

Lauren Smith, MD MAS , Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH , Gary Lin, PhD, MSE , Jason Falvey, DPT, PhD , Brittany Grace, MPH , Jamie Rubin, MS, RN , Elisabeth Vaeth, MPH , Rebecca Perlmutter, MPH , Mary-Claire Roghmann, MD, MS (2026)

Estimating Cost Savings of Care Coordination for Older Adults: Evidence from the Iowa Return to Community Program

Erblin Shehu MS, Brian Kaskie PhD, and Dan M. Shane PhD (2026)

The effects of the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) and COVID-19 on nursing and therapy staffing levels among skilled nursing facilities

Roland Shapley Jr, Robert Weech-Maldonado, Ganisher Davlyatov, Gregory N. Orewa, Jonathan Patterson, Nancy Borkowski (2026)

Nursing Homes Struggled with Maintaining Staffing and Disparities Widened During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Micah Segelman ,PhD , Kristie A. Porter, MPH , Angela Gasdaska, MS , Galina Khatutsky, MS , Zhanlian Feng, PhD , Nathan Rowan, BS ,et.al (2025)

Effects of Visitation Restriction on Antipsychotic Drug Use among Nursing Home Residents with ADRD during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tingting Zhang , Christopher M Santostefano , Daniel Harris , Antoinette B Coe , Andrew R Zullo , Lauren B Gerlach , Richa Joshi , Julie P W Bynum , Theresa I Shireman (2025)

Clinicians Who Practice Primarily in Nursing Homes and the Quality of Care for Residents With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

Hyunkyung Yun , Mark Aaron Unruh , Yuting Qian , Yongkang Zhang , Hye-Young Jung (2025)

Micah Segelman, PhD, Nathan Rowan, BS, Dana B. Mukamel, PhD, Laura M. Wagner, PhD, RN,FA (2025)

Methods for studying health disparities in U.S. nursing homes: a scoping review

Hanne Marie Rostad , Lucille Xiang , Elizabeth M White (2025)

Changes in Nursing Home Staffing Instability Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Impacts of Skilled Nursing Facility Change of Ownership on Staffing: A Staggered Difference-in-Difference Analysis

Rachel A. Prusynski, DPT, PhD,Harsha Amaravadi, MPH, Bianca K. Frogner, PhD, Tracy M. Mroz, PhD, OTR/L (2025)

Changing Patient Medical Complexity After Skilled Nursing Facility Payment Reform: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis

Rachel A Prusynski , Harsha Amaravadi , Tracy M Mroz , Cait Brown 4, Debra Saliba , Natalie E Leland (2025)

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