LTCI and its staff members have decades of experience working on healthcare and specifically long term care related research projects. LTCI staff has worked on a number of national research projects including:
- Design and evaluation of the current or “traditional” long-term care survey process;
- Design and testing of the Quality Indicator Survey process (QIS);
- The CMS initiative to reduce avoidable hospitalizations among nursing facility residents; and
- Development, testing and implementation of the original Quality Indicators (QIs) the precursors of the current Quality Measures (QMs) for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).