Long-term care annual report to the General Assembly.

Title from cover.

Long-term care facility survey, Illinois, 1984/85 /

"June, 1986."

Nursing Home Care Act, Abused and Neglected Long Term Care Facility Residents Reporting Act : report to the General Assembly /

Description based on: 1993; title from cover.

Nursing Home Care Reform Act of 1979, Abused and Neglected Long-Term Care Facility Residents Reporting Act, and Life Care Facilities Act, as amended and effective as of July 1, 1988.

"May 1988."--P. 78.

Reducing the incidence of inappropriate drug therapy and drug costs in long-term care facilities /

Research conducted in cooperation with the University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice.

Report on long-term care facilities : Illinois, 1986/1987.

"August, 1988."

Report on long-term care facilities : Illinois, 1987/1988.

"November, 1989."

Residents' rights for people in long term care facilities.

Download this brochure at www.share.ilus/aging in the "News and Publications" section.

The Illinois long-term care and chronic disease facilities plan : [rule 3B] / prepared by the Illinois Department of Public Health, Office of Health Facilities and Quality of Care ; approved and adopted by the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board.

Effective July 21, 1977.

The Illinois long-term care and chronic disease facilities plan [Chapter 3B] /

"Approved and adopted by the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board"--T.p.

The long term care constellation : recommendations of the Community-Based Long Term Care Reform Task Force to Governor Jim Edgar.

January 1996.

Policy choices for long-term care.

Shipping list no.: 91-503-P.

Facilities and services for long-term chronic illness and convalescent care in the metropolitan St. Louis area; a study of present bed availabilities and future requirements for long-term care in chronic hospitals, chronic care units of general hospitals and skilled nursing homes.

Includes bibliography.

Physician payment reforms : hearings before the Subcommittee on Medicare and Long-Term Care of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, first session.

"June 16, 1989"--Pt. 2.

Pressure ulcers and nutritional deficits in elderly long-term care patients: Effects of a comprehensive nutritional program on pressure ulcer healing, length of hospital stay and charges to patients

The elderly are at the highest risk of developing pressure ulcers that result in prolonged hospitalization, high health care costs, increased mortality, and decreased quality of life. The burden of pressure ulcers will intensify because of a rapidly increasing elderly population in the United States (US). Poor nutrition is a major predictor of pressure ulcer formation. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a comprehensive, interdisciplinary nutritional protocol on: (1) pressure ulcer wound healing (2) length of hospital stays, and (3) charges for pressure ulcer management. Using a pre-intervention/post intervention quasi-experimental design the study sample was composed of 100 patients 60 years or older, admitted with or acquiring a pressure ulcer. A pre-intervention group (n= 50) received routine pressure ulcer care (standard diet, dressing changes, and equipment). A post-intervention group received routine care plus an interdisciplinary nutrition intervention (physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, added protein and calories to the diet). Research questions were analyzed using descriptive statistics, frequencies, Chi-Square Tests, and T-tests. Findings indicated that the comprehensive, interdisciplinary nutritional protocol had a significant effect on the rate of wound healing in Week3 and Week4, total hospital length of stay (pre-intervention M= 43.2 days, SD=31.70 versus M=31.77, SID-12.02 post-intervention), and pressure ulcer length of stay (pre-intervention 25.28 days, SD5.60 versus 18.40 days, SD 5.27 post-intervention). Although there was no significant difference in total charges for the pre-intervention group ($727,245.00) compared to the post-intervention group ($702,065.00), charges for speech (m=$5885.12, SD=$332.55), pre albumin (m=$808.52,SD= $332.55), and albumin($278 .88, SD=55.00) were higher in the pre-intervention group and charges for PT ($5721.26, SD$3655.24) and OT($2544 .64, SD=1712.863) were higher in the post-intervention group. Study findings indicate that this comprehensive nutritional intervention was effective in improving pressure ulcer wound healing, decreasing both hospital length of stay for treatment of pressure ulcer and total hospital length of stay while showing no significant additional charges for treatment of pressure ulcers.