Below is a listing of select Hilltop publications and presentations. You can search by type, topic, date, and/or title. The search function searches for key words in both the title and the publication summary. Click on the publication’s title below to go to its summary.
03/03/2025
Hilltop Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, Senior Director of Health Reform Studies Laura Spicer, and Interim Executive Director Alice Middleton discuss their re-examination of 2018-2019 enrollment data from Arkansas Works (the state’s Medicaid work requirement program) in this article published in the Health Affairs Forefront series.
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02/11/2025
Hilltop Policy Analyst Advanced Roberto Millar, PhD, and Director of Aging and Disability Studies Christin Diehl coauthored this article published in Nursing Reports. This article discusses the results of a cross-sectional study that utilizes public data from 218 Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing facilities in Maryland to examine the association between staffing requirements and quality of care ratings, as well as the role facility ownership plays.
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01/08/2025
Hilltop Policy Analyst Advanced Roberto Millar, PhD, and Director of Aging and Disability Studies Christin Diehl coauthored this article published in the Journal of Applied Gerontology. They discuss the importance of nursing facility structural characteristics in contributing to residents’ quality of care. The study used data from 220 Maryland nursing facilities to examine associations between two different quality-of-care metrics: family satisfaction and Care Compare five-star quality ratings.
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