US Nursing Home Antipsychotic Drugging Rates

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March 28, 2016 marks the fourth anniversary of the launch of the federal campaign to reduce inappropriate antipsychotic drugging in nursing homes across the country.  Click on the links below for LTCCC’s Alert on progress to date and to find out how the nursing homes in your state are doing.

LTC Alert Antipsychotic Drugging.  News alert on the anniversary of the campaign and the latest data on antipsychotic drugging.

State Antipsychotic Drugging MDS Rates. State and national drugging rates downloaded from Medicare.gov on March 22, 2016 for fourth quarter of 2015. [Excel]

US Nursing Home Antipsychotic Drugging Rates. The non-risk-adjusted antipsychotic drugging rates for every licensed nursing home. We have formatted these data to facilitate their usefulness. Each state has a tab in which is listed all of its nursing homes and each facility's county, zip code, percent of residents who did not receive AP drugs and percent who did (based on data reported by CMS for the end of 2015 (fourth quarter). [Excel]

CMS Facility Psychoactive Drug Data for Antipsychotics. The raw data provided from CMS upon which “US Nursing Home Antipsychotic Drugging Rates” is based.  Provided for reference. [Excel]

Antipsychotic Drugging Rates for All NY Nursing Homes (as of 2015, fourth quarter, excel)