HCBS Quality Matters News Archive

HCBS Quality Matters Newsletter Archive

The HCBS Quality Matters Newsletter gives you an inside look at the work we are doing as well as the studies we collaborate on!

In the News

  • Meet the Research Team: John Abbate

    Research Specialist John Abbate believes strongly in making research accessible. Working in the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91 gives him a chance to put this into practice.

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  • CROR launches INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast

    The Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research has launched a new podcast called INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast.

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  • Research Update RRTC: HCBS

    CROR¡¯s Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) project is designed to develop an evidence-base about the effectiveness of HCBS for people with disabilities.

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  • ADvancing interRAI: Multi-State Collaboration to Use Better Data Better

    Having reliable and valid assessment data is necessary to successfully implement any data-driven program improvements.

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  • WEBINAR: "My Choice, My Way": Implementing Meaningful Person-Centered Practices

    Tonie Sadler, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in health services and outcomes research at Northwestern University and at the Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91's Center For Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, presented ¡°My Choice, My Way: Implementing Meaningful Person-Centered Practices" at the 2022 TASH conference held in Phoenix, AZ in December. She identifies several best practices for person-centered delivery of HCBS.

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  • WEBINAR: Achieving Person-Centered Outcomes: The Importance of Developing New Outcome Measures

    Sara Karon, PhD, Senior Health Policy Analyst, Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care at RTI International presented ¡°Achieving Person-centered Outcomes: The Importance of Developing New Outcome Measures,¡± at the 2022 TASH Conference in December. She discussed gaps in measures that assess person-centered outcomes for people receiving HCBS.

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  • Introducing Lacey Lyons: HCBS Quality Matters Newsletter Writer

    Lyons is a freelance writer, copy editor, interviewer and book reviewer for Southern Review of Books, and an educator in writing and disability studies at Belmont University.

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