Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability

Supplemental Analyses of the Pilot Project Authorizing Direct Admission to Extended Congregate Care

Report 97-74, June 1998




Report Summary

  • This report provides supplemental information aboutresidents who participated in Florida's pilot project authorizing direct admission to anextended congregate care (ECC) facility. Chapter 95-418, Laws of Florida, required ouroffice to conduct a pilot project study of assisted living facilities that directly admitindividuals to extended congregate care. The study determined the effects direct admissionhad on ECC. OPPAGA published its final evaluation in Report No. 97-26 on December 30, 1997. The final report concluded that ECClicensed facilities can provide a less costly, safe alternative to nursing home care in amore homelike setting. This supplemental report provides detailed information about thecharacteristics of residents in the pilot project facilities and offers preliminaryinferences about ECC as a long term-care option.


Related Reports
  1. Progress Report: Other Initiatives to Decrease Long-Term Care Costs Should Accompany Medicaid Waiver Expansion
    Report 99-51 May 2000
  2. Review of the Pilot Project Authorizing Direct Admission to Extended Congregate Care
    Report 97-26 December 1997
  3. Follow-up Report on the Comprehensive Assessment and Review for Long Term Care Services (CARES) Program Administered by the Department of Elder Affairs
    Report 97-01 July 1997
  4. Second Status Report on the Pilot Project Authorizing Direct Admission to Extended Congregate Care
    Report 96-26 December 1996
Copies of this report in print or alternate accessible format may be obtained by email OPPAGA@oppaga.fl.gov, telephone (850) 488-0021, or mail 111 W. Madison St., Room 312 Tallahassee, FL 32399-1475.
Copies of this report in print or alternate accessible format may be obtained by email OPPAGA@oppaga.fl.gov, telephone (850) 488-0021, or mail 111 W. Madison St., Room 312 Tallahassee, FL 32399-1475.
social services, health, extended care