Research Priorities

American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL)
  • Evidence-based clinical and functional care approaches for long Covid in nursing centers and/or assisted living communities
  • Improving efficiency in obtaining functional change outcomes in nursing centers and/or assisted living communities
  • Workforce issues impacting care delivery in nursing centers and/or assisted living communities

Please note that this health system will not be hosting a LHS Scientist in 2025

BAYADA
  • Enhancing quality of care in private duty home care services (i. Develop a process to assess for “risk” of unplanned hospitalizations or falls; ii. Create a risk score and intervention strategy that will lead to early intervention to reduce hospital admission and/or falls)
  • Assessing the impact of payment models (PDGM, case rates, FFS, HHVBP) on clinical and financial outcomes (ACH, patient satisfaction, visit utilization, revenue per visit, etc)
  • Examining the effect rehabilitation and/or nursing dosage (frequency, time and episode length) on outcomes (clinical and financial) (i. What is the right amount of care by the right provider(s) that results in the best outcomes?)
Boston Medical Center (BMC)
  • Assess disparities in access, quality, and outcomes of rehabilitation
  • Study ambulatory scheduling practices across all patients/payers, determine efficiency opportunities to provide care for patients within our ACO/system; Study the impacts and characterized predictors of adherence to therapeutic plan of care design to the patient outcome in the outpatient setting.
  • Development of Team-based models of care, care coordination improvement for patients, determine outcome change.

Brown University Health (BUH)
  • Reducing disability and poor clinical outcomes among elderly patients by early mobilization in the emergency department, inpatient and critical care areas and avoiding the need for prolonged post-acute care.
  • Early identification and reduction in the risk of delirium among vulnerable adults to reduce the risk of cognitive decline, prolonged hospitalization, and need for long-term care.
  • Expanding the role of patient and family engagement in reducing iatrogenic injury and diagnostic delay among vulnerable patients with functional limitations.
  • Using information technology to identify and prevent clinical deterioration in ambulatory patients with chronic conditions.

Please note that this health system will not be hosting a LHS Scientist in 2025

Cleveland Clinic
  • Standardize cognitive assessment in the acute care hospital
Innovage
  • Addressing social determinants of health within a PACE population
  • Fall reduction
  • End-of-life and advance care planning
  • Medication safety and deprescribing
  • Vaccinations and infection prevention
  • Improving participant/patient engagement
  • ER diversion/avoidance

Please note that this health system will not be hosting a LHS Scientist in 2025

Intermountain Health
  • Transitions of care across the continuum
  • Value-based care pathways
  • Effectiveness of rehabilitation for high-need / high-cost patients
  • Team-based models of care, care coordination
Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • Implementation of systematic approaches to improve mobility of patients in the acute care setting, particularly those at high risk (e.g., individuals’ chronic conditions such as CHF)
  • Precision Rehabilitation: Using high information content measurement to personalize rehabilitation interventions across the healthcare continuum for individuals with disability and/or chronic conditions
  • Effectiveness of innovative care delivery models prior to surgery especially for geriatric populations with multiple chronic conditions
  • Development of rehabilitation models of care to reduce skilled nursing facility utilization
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
  • Complex care management and outcomes in individuals with serious illness
  • Access to sustainable adaptive sport programs for people with disabilities
  • Improving post-acute transitional care
UPMC Center for Assistive Technology (CAT)
  • Evaluation of downstream impact throughout the health system for specialty assistive technology and durable medical equipment services.
  • Effectiveness of uniform communication pathways for care transition in individuals with disabilities (inpatient to outpatient and/or pediatrics to adulthood).
  • Development, implementation, and evaluation of assistive technology and durable medical equipment through patient reported outcomes.
UPMC Rehabilitation Institute (RI)
  • Clinical outcomes of the hybrid telehealth model
  • Physical therapy dosage and its effect on length of stay (LOS)