Sample Projects

• Community Health Worker Survey
  Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  
  This ongoing survey is studying community health workers’ job roles and scope, training, supervision, level of integration into the health care delivery system, and other job issues related to workforce recruitment and retention. UMass Medical School’s survey research staff is involved in the project team and responsible for developing the SNAP web-based tool.
• Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) Survey
  Massachusetts Medicaid program, MassHealth
  
  This on-going survey measures and reports on the quality of health care services provided to residents of Massachusetts. UMass Medical School staff is part of the project team.
• Board of Registration in Nursing Survey
  National Council of State Boards of Nursing
  
  This on-going surveypolls nurses practicing in randomly-selected nursing homes in Massachusetts to determine their perceptions of their facility’s culture of safety and barriers to medication error reporting.
• MassHealth PCC Plan Pay-for-Performance Survey
  Massachusetts Medicaid program, MassHealth Primary Care Clinician (PCC) Plan
  
  As part of the MassHealth PCC Plan Pay-for-Performance Program, this survey established baseline measures on processes adopted by the MassHealth primary care clinicians that promote the delivery of high quality care to their patients.
• MassHealth Nursing Facility Pay-for-Performance Survey
  Massachusetts Medicaid program, MassHealth Office of Long Term Care
  
  As part of the MassHealth Nursing Facility Pay-for-Performance Program, this survey collected baseline information on existence and administration of specific facility processes, including falls prevention programs, mobility programs, staff retention/turnover, and transition planning (transition with an acute care hospital and transition to community).