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Mor explores complexities of intervention delivery at NIH Collaboratory annual steering meeting

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IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, along with colleagues Steven George, PT, PhD and Angelo Volandes, MD, discussed the complexities of intervention delivery in pragmatic clinical trials during an interview at this year’s NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Steering Committee annual meeting. The group explained that delivery complexities impact researchers’ ability to discern trial results and should be addressed early for pragmatic trials.

The session, titled “Lessons on Intervention Delivery and Complexity,” was held on August 8, 2023. An excerpt of Mor’s interview is published on the NIH Collaboratory website.

Read the interview.

Mor serves on NIH Collaboratory panel to discuss making health decisions based on PCTs

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IMPACT multiple principal investigator and longtime professor of health services, policy and practice at Brown University, Vincent Mor, PhD served as a panelist during the National Institutes of Health (NIH)  Collaboratory Workshop. “Getting the Right Evidence to Decision-Makers Faster.” The panel, held on June 29, was titled “How Have Health Systems Made Decisions Based on Evidence Collected in PCTs?” and discussed how healthcare system leaders can evaluate research and implement findings.

Watch the full panel video.

Mission Moment: Marie M. Desir, Senior Patient Care Associate (PCA) at Hebrew SeniorLife

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Marie M. Desir, Senior Patient Care Associate (PCA) at Hebrew SeniorLife provided this year’s mission moment for the IMPACT Collaboratory Annual Steering Committee & Business Planning Meeting, held on April 11, 2023.

Ms. Desir shared her unique experience as a frontline member of the healthcare team working with people living with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ms. Desir provided a heartfelt description of the challenges that providers, patients, and families faced throughout the pandemic. She provided examples of how her team maintained their humor and humanity to overcome obstacles to good caregiving. Her account received a standing ovation for her inspiring mission moment.

Mor to present on Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory at NIH virtual workshop

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory will host a virtual workshop, “Getting the Right Evidence to Decision-Makers Faster: Insights from the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory”. The virtual event will be held June 20-21 to explore the critical cycle of evidence generation to decision-making by health system leaders looking to implement the findings of pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs).

IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD will participate in Panel 1 on the first day entitled “How have health systems made decisions based on evidence collected in PCTs?” Mor will be commenting on IMPACT as well as on the PROVEN pragmatic trial conducted with IMPACT Principal Investigator Susan Mitchell, MD PhD.

The workshop is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Vince Mor presenting at National Academy’s “Addressing the Rising Mental Health Needs of an Aging Population: A Workshop”

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IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, will present at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine public workshop exploring the current state of mental health care for older adults in the United States and potential strategies to address the mental health needs and challenges of an aging population.

Mor, who is a National Academy workshop planning committee member, will moderate a session called “Promoting Resilience and Positive Mental Health in Older Adults.” The two-day workshop will be held May 15-16, 2023, in Washington DC and virtually, online via Event Bright.

Learn more and register for the workshop.

McKnight’s news profiles Mor as Pinnacle Award honoree

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IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vince Mor, PhD is profiled as an honoree by McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and McKnight’s Home Care, part of McKnight’s Senior Living. Mor was honored with an “Industry Ally” award at McKnight’s 2023 Pinnacle Awards in March for his decades of research to improve long-term care. McKnight’s will profile other Pinnacle Award honorees daily through May.

Read Mor’s honoree profile.

Mor to speak at workshop on addressing the rising mental health needs of an aging population

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host an Ad Hoc workshop planning for the addressing the rising mental health needs of an aging population in Washington, DC on May 15 and 16. IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, is an invited presenter at the workshop, which will cover the areas of: mental health and substance use conditions among older adults; strategies to improve the quality and capacity of mental health services for older adults; and ways to build and sustain comprehensive programs to support the well-being of older adults with mental health conditions, among other topics.

Register for the workshop.

 

Vincent Mor to be honored for exceptional career achievement with McKnights Award

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IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vincent Mor, PhD, is to be honored with an McKnight’s Industry Ally Award on March 7, 2023. The first McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards program “recognizes industry veterans who are setting the standards, driving change, providing guidance and inspiring us all,” in senior care, skilled nursing, or the home care sector.  

Mor is Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice; and Florence Pirce Grant University Professor, Brown University School of Public Health at Brown University. His decades-long career in understanding senior care is credited with driving change and setting standards in the field.  

 

The Pinnacle Awards ceremony will be held at the The Ivy Room in Chicago, IL on March 7. Details and tickets are available online.  

IMPACT’s Mor is among authors of JAMA article on hospital discharge rates and nursing home quality for those with dementia

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IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD recently co-authored an article in Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open sharing results of a cross-sectional analysis of Medicare beneficiaries.

The JAMA Network Open article shares a cross-sectional analysis of more than 2 million Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized between 2017 and 2019. The analysis revealed that persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia were more likely to be discharged to lower-quality Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) after accounting for discharging hospital, residential neighborhood, and other characteristics (e.g., post-acute care specialization) of all SNFs available at discharge. Results were consistent in analyses stratified by race and ethnicity, payer source, and primary diagnosis.

The article was also covered in McKnight’s to emphasize how the study results show that regulatory and payment changes are “badly needed” to improve the care process and support direct care staff working with dementia patients.

The McKnight article emphasized how the results should cause policymakers to consider incentivizing nursing homes to take patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). The study data showed that these patients often end up in low-quality facilities after a hospital stay. Mor and his colleagues suggested that improving nursing home quality for patients with ADRD will require focused funding efforts to provide quality care.