Welcome to the Abt Associates' In the News Section. Many members of our staff are frequently quoted as expert sources for news articles. Below are summaries of selected articles in which our experts are cited. Many of these summaries list on-line access information: access is sometimes free, but sometimes a small fee is charged once the article is archived. For more information or for a hard-copy of the original article, contact Corporate Communications at 617-520-2982, or e-mail newsroom@abtassoc.com.
Victoria Main, the Executive Director of Sarasota's public housing authority announces her resignation from the post to join Abt Associates as a Senior Project Manager in May. She is credited with retooling the beleaguered housing authority and with making changes that led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to remove it from a list of "troubled" agencies in October.
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Senior Associate Andrea Hassol discusses the practice of telemedicine in rural areas. "Patients seem to be very accepting of the concept in rural areas because their alternative is a very long drive," she said. Hard copy available.
Project Director Deb Morse discusses the Chester Housing Authority's efforts to revitalize the city's public housing. According to Morse, about half of the funding for the revitalization will come from two federal HOPE VI grants; the rest will come from a variety of public and private sources. (for a fee).
Senior Analyst Bhavya Lal discusses the perceived gender discrimination in the field of engineering. An issue brief prepared for the National Science Foundation by Abt Associates found that women earn about 97 cents for every dollar earned by men in the profession. Hard copy (of the article) available.
In response to a dramatic reduction in Montana's welfare recipients, the state hired Abt Associates to assess how families who leave welfare for work fare. In February, Abt Associates will begin interviewing 1,000 past and present recipients with experience with the Families Achieving Independence in Montana initiative. Hard copy available.
Senior Scientist Michael Gross discusses the potential for rectal microbicides to act as an adjunct to condoms for HIV/STD prevention. In a recent study, Abt Associates researchers found that 58 percent of male couples surveyed would use microbicides if they were approved for rectal use. Hard copy available.
This article describes work that Abt Associates completed for the healthcare Financing Agency on an economic model of the home health industry under the new Medicare Prospective Payment System. According to Abt Associates researchers, the new system will influence the likelihood of small providers to merge into large companies and the results could affect the quality of care. Hard copy available.
This article discusses work that Abt Associates is involved in with the healthcare Financing Agency to analyze two years of data from nearly all nursing homes in Ohio, New York, and Texas, representing approximately 2,700 facilities. The study will focus on whether staffing ratios improve care, whether minimum nurse staffing ratio requirements are appropriate and the potential cost and budgetary implications of minimum ratio requirements. Hard copy available.
Abt Associates Senior Associate Henry Goldberg and Senior Analyst Deborah Delargy explain how Abt Associates approached the task of developing a home health prospective payment system for the healthcare Financing Administration. The system Abt Associates developed accurately predicts the volume and type of home health services each patient requires, based on his or her characteristics. Report Available On-line.
Abt Associates was contracted by the healthcare Financing Administration to conduct a three-year demonstration of a per-episode prospective payment system (PPS) for home healthcare services. This article discusses preliminary results of the PPS demonstration. Report Available On-line.
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