Profiles the Household Model, which creates home-like environments for nursing home residents to offer greater dignity, autonomy, and infection control, as well as establishes closer, more family-type relationships between residents and staff.

Describes a new federal rule released in November 2023 to increase transparency in nursing home operations.

Outlines current federal rules and research findings on nursing home staffing to help inform policymakers in setting nursing home staffing guidance.

Features a conversation with Danetta Sloan, PhD, MSW, MA, assistant scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to learn about the MIND at Home program and how dementia care coordination programs can better support Black caregivers and their families.

This Tradeoffs podcast episode explores ways to make palliative care more equitable and shares a caregiver's journey navigating a serious illness.

Explores what too often goes wrong for Black patients during the course of a serious illness, and how Medicare incentives and requirements could help address these alarming issues.

Highlights experiences from the Center to Advance Palliative Care’s Medicare Advantage and ACO Learning Communities with strategies for improving serious illness care, as well as resources that health plans and ACOs can use to drive better value and improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness.

Describes how two health plans — Anthem, Inc. and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield —organizations introduced a palliative care measure into their hospital value-based payment programs, which has led to significant improvements in access to palliative care for their seriously ill members.

Describes Summit Medical Group’s experience integrating palliative care services and offers advice for other ACOs that are struggling to expand palliative care services and looking for a path forward.

Rachelle Bernacki, MD, discusses developing, implementing, and scaling the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs, including a few surprises and challenges from along the way.