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Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD, FAAN
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Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Nursing,
Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Director, UCSF National Center for Personal Assistance Services
3333 California St., #LHts-455
San Francisco, CA 94143-0612
Telephone: 415 476-4030 Fax: 415-476-6552
Email: charlene.harrington@ucsf.edu
Web: http://www.PASCenter.org
Web: http://www.calnhs.org
Impact of California's Medi-Cal Long Term Care Reimbursement Act On Access, Quality, and Costs by Harrington, O'Meara, Collier, Kang, Stephens, and Chang
Full Document: ab1629.pdf
Snapshot: ab1629snap.pdf
My primary research interests focus on quality, access, utilization, and expenditures of nursing home care, home and community based care, and personal care services, as well as labor market issues.
2008-09 Harrington, C. P.I. California Nursing Home Search Website Renewal. California HealthCare Foundation. No. 07-1414. 3-1-08 to 2-29-09. $209,835.
2008-13 Harrington, C. P.I. and Director. Personal Assistance Services for the 21st Century. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. H133B080002. $4,250,000. Oct.1, 2008-Sept 30, 2013.
2008-09 Harrington, C. P.I. Medicaid Home and Community-Based Service Programs: A National Study of Program and Policy developments: 2006 Data Update. Kaiser Family Foundation, No. 08-1009-400. 09-1-08 to 8-31-09, $75,000.
2008-09 Harrington, C. P.I. Policy Brief on Recent Trends and Potential Areas of Improvement in Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services. Kaiser Family Foundation, No. 07-1105-920. 09-1-08 to 1-31-09, $25,000.
1987-now Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing
1993 Distinguished Professor, UCLA, Academic Geriatric Resource Ctr.
1994 Alumni of the Year, University of Kansas School of Nursing
1996-now Institute of Medicine, Elected Member
1999 UCSF School of Nursing, The Nineteenth Helen Nahm Research Lecture
2002 National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, The Cenoria Johnson Memorial Award
2005 Western Institute of Nursing in partnership with The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Geriatric Nursing Research Award, April 7, 2005
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2003 Harrington, C., O'Meara, J., Kitchener, M., Payne-Simon, L., and Schnelle, J. Designing a Report Card for Nursing Facilities: What Information Is Needed and Why. The Gerontologist. 43 (Special Issue II):47-57.
2003 Harrington, C., Collier, E., O'Meara, J., Kitchener, M., Payne-Simon, L., and Schnelle, J. Federal and State Nursing Facility Websites: Just What the Consumer Needs? American J. of Medical Quality. 18 (1): 21-37.
2003 Harrington, C. and Swan, J.H. Nurse Home Staffing, Turnover, and Casemix. Medical Care Research and Review. 60 (2):366-392.
2003 Harrington, C., O'Meara, J., Collier, E., and Schnelle, J.F. Websites: An Innovative Approach to Inform Consumers About Nursing Indicators of Quality in Nursing Homes? J. of Gerontological Nursing. 29 (1): 5-11.
2003 O'Neill, C, Harrington, C., Kitchener, M., and Saliba, D. Quality of Care in Nursing Homes: An Analysis of the Relationships Among Profit, Quality, and Ownership. Medical Care. 41 (12): 1318-1330.
2003 Kitchener, M., Carrillo, H., and Harrington, C. Medicaid Community-Based programs: A Longitudinal Analysis of State Variation in Expenditures and Utilization. Inquiry. 40(4): 375-389.
2004 Tonner, C. and Harrington, C. Nursing Facility and Home and Community Based Service Need Criteria in the United States. Home Health and Community Services Quarterly. 22 (4):65-83.
2004 Harrington, C., Mullan, J. and Carrillo, H. State Nursing Home Enforcement Systems. J. of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. 29 (1): 43-73.
2004 LaPlante, M.P., Kaye, H.S., Kang, T. and Harrington, C. Unmet Need for Personal Assistance Services: Estimating the Shortfall in Hours of Help and Adverse Consequences. J. of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 59B (2): S98-S108.
2004 Harrington, C. Saving Lives Through Quality of Care: A Blueprint for Elder Justice. Alzheimer's Care. 5 (1) 24-38.
2004 Schnelle, J.F., Simmons S.F., Harrington, C., Cadogan, M., Garcia, E., and Bates-Jensen, B. Relationship of Nursing Home Staffing to Quality of Care? Health Services Research. 39 (2):225-250.
2004 Kitchener, M., Ng, T., and Harrington, C. Medicaid 1915c Home and Community-Based Services Waivers: National Survey of Eligibility Criteria, Caps, and Waiting Lists. Home Health and Community Services Quarterly. 23 (2):55-69.
2004 Kitchener, M., Bostrom, A. and Harrington, C. Smoke Without Fire: California Nursing Facility Closures, 1997-2001. Inquiry. 41 (2): 189-202.
2004 Kitchener, M., Beynon, M. and Harrington, C. Explaining the Diffusion of Medicaid Home Care Waiver Programs Using VPRS Decision Rules. Health Care Management Science. 7:237-244.
2004 Kitchener, M. and Harrington, C. The U.S. Long Term Care Field: A Dialectic Analysis of Institution Dynamics. J. of Health and Social Behavior. 45 (Extra Issue): 87-101.
2004 Harrington, C. and C.L. Estes (Eds). Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System. 4th Edition. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
2005 Kitchener M, Ng T, Harrington C. Medicaid home and community-based services: national program trends. Health Affairs. 24 (1): 206-212.
2005 Harrington C, Anzaldo S, Burdin A, Kitchener M, Miller N. Trends in state certificate of need and moratoria programs for long term care providers. J. Health and Social Policy. 19 (2):31-58.
2005 Kitchener M, O’Neil C, Harrington C. Chain reaction: an exploratory study of nursing home bankruptcy in California. J. Aging and Social Policy. 17(4): 19-35.
2006 Swan JH, Harrington C. California nursing facility quality and union environments. J. Aging and Health. 19 (2): 183-199.
2006 Kaye HS, Chapman S, Newcomer RJ, Harrington C. The personal assistance workforce: trends in supply and demand. Health Affairs. 2006; 25 (4): 1113-1120.
2006 Tsoukalas T, Rudder C, Mollot RJ, Shineman M, Lee HY, Harrington C. The collection and use of funds from civil money penalties and fines from nursing homes. Gerontologist. 46 (6):759-771.
2006 Kitchener M, Ng T, Miller N, Harrington C. Institutional and community based long term care: a comparative estimate of public costs. J. Health & Social Policy. 2006; 22 (2):31-50.
2007 Harrington C, Swan JH, Carrillo H. Nursing staffing and Medicaid reimbursement rates. Health Services Research, 43 (3): 1105-1129.
2007 LaPlante MP, Kaye HS, Harrington C. Estimating the expense of a mandatory home and community based personal assistance services under Medicaid: The Case of MiCASSA. J. Health and Social Policy. 19(3): 47-64.
2007 Kitchener M, Ng T, Carrillo H, Miller NA, Harrington C. Developing personal care programs: national trends and inter-state variation, 1992-2002. Inquiry. 44 (1): 69-87.
2007 Kitchener M, Ng T, Harrington C. State Medicaid home care policies: inside the black box. Home Health Care Services Quarterly. 26 (3): 23-38.
2008 Kitchener, M., Ng, T., Yuol, H., Harrington, C. Assistive technology in Medicaid home and community based waivers: A national study of program trends. The Gerontologist. 48 (2):181-189.
2008 Kitchener, M., O’Meara, J., Brody, A., Lee, H.Y., Harrington, C. Shareholder value and the performance of a large nursing home chain. Health Services Research. 43 (3): 1062-1084.
2008 Miller, N., Elder, K.T., Kitchener, M., Kang, Y., Harrington, C. Medicaid 1915© waiver use and expenditures for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Medicare Care Research and Review. 65 (3) 338-55.
2008 Kang, T. & Harrington, C. Variation in types of service use and expenditures for individuals with developmental disabilities. Disability and Health Journal. 1:30-41.
2008 Harrington, C., Tsoukalas, T., Rudder, C., Mollot, R.J., and Carrillo, H. Study of federal and state civil money penalties and fines. The Gerontologist. 48 (5): 679–691.
2008 Black, L., Spetz, J. & Harrington, C. Nurses working outside of nursing: societal trend or workplace crisis? J. of Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice. 9 (3): 143-157.
2008 Harrington, C. & Kang, T. Disparities in service utilization and expenditures for individuals with developmental disabilities. Disability and Health Journal. 1 (4):181-244.
2008 Collier, E. & Harrington, C. Staffing characteristics, turnover rates, and quality of resident care in nursing facilities. Research in Gerontological Nursing. 1 (3): 157-170.
2008 Swan JH, Kitchener M, Harrington C. Medicaid nursing facility rates, capacity, and utilization: a structural model of analysis. J. of Health and Aging Policy, In Press.
2008 Kim, H., Harrington, C., Greene, W. Registered nurse staff mix and nursing home quality. The Gerontologist. In press.
2008 Kim, H., Kovner, C.T., Harrington, C., Greene, W.H., Mezey, M. A panel analysis of the relationships of nursing home staffing levels and standards to regulatory deficiencies. J. of Gerontology: Social Sciences. In press.
2008 Harrington, C., Kang, T. & Chang, J. Factors associated with living in development centers in California. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. In Press.
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