Increase wages and benefits for personal or home care workers, nurse aides, and others who provide direct care to patients in long-term care (LTC) settings
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Policies and programs that can improve health
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Long-term care employee compensation
Evidence Rating:
Expert Opinion
Health Factor(s):
Access to Care
Medical homes
Provide continuous, comprehensive, whole person primary care that uses a coordinated team of medical providers across the health care system
Evidence Rating:
Scientifically Supported
Health Factor(s):
Quality of Care, Access to Care
Medication-assisted treatment access enhancement initiatives
Provide medications such as methadone to individuals diagnosed with opioid use disorder in outpatient, residential, and hospital settings, usually with counseling and behavioral therapies; often called MAT
Evidence Rating:
Expert Opinion
Health Factor(s):
Alcohol and Drug Use
Mental health benefits legislation
Regulate mental health insurance to increase access to mental health services, including treatment for substance use disorders
Evidence Rating:
Scientifically Supported
Health Factor(s):
Access to Care
Mentoring for new nurses
Pair new nurses with more experienced nurses who act as a resource and provide support as the new nurse establishes her or himself professionally
Evidence Rating:
Some Evidence
Health Factor(s):
Access to Care
Multi-component community interventions against alcohol-impaired driving
Work to reduce alcohol-impaired driving via sobriety checkpoints, responsible beverage service training, education and awareness activities, and other efforts
Evidence Rating:
Scientifically Supported
Health Factor(s):
Alcohol and Drug Use
Multi-component fall prevention interventions for older adults
Provide a fixed, multi-component set of fall prevention interventions to older adults, usually in community settings, without an individualized risk assessment
Evidence Rating:
Scientifically Supported
Health Factor(s):
Community Safety, Quality of Care
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) for juvenile offenders
Use an intensive, family- and community-based intervention that addresses individual, family and environmental risk factors that affect antisocial behaviors among serious juvenile offenders
Evidence Rating:
Scientifically Supported
Health Factor(s):
Community Safety
Nurse practitioner scope of practice
Use regulation to extend nurse practitioners’ (NPs’) scope of practice to provide care to the full scope of their training and skills without physician oversight, especially for primary care
Evidence Rating:
Scientifically Supported
Health Factor(s):
Quality of Care
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)
Provide home visiting services to low income, first time mothers and their babies, starting during pregnancy and continuing through a child’s second birthday
Evidence Rating:
Scientifically Supported
Health Factor(s):
Family and Social Support