The New York legislature recently drafted proposed legislation introducing mandated nursing-related staffing ratios for hospitals and nursing homes. Given the potential implications of such mandated staffing ratios for a host of important outcomes, the legislature tasked the Department of Health (DOH) with the preparation of a report assessing the consequences associated with these proposed rules. In turn, the Department of Health reached out to Cornell University. Fitzpatrick and other faculty from the College of Human Ecology (CHE) and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) provided additional information on the potential effects of the proposed mandated nursing-related minimum staffing ratios.
Report
Excerpts from Cornell’s “Report on the Potential Effects of New York State’s Proposed Minimum Nurse Staffing” are featured in the Department of Health’s “Study of Nurse Caregiver Minimum Staffing Levels and Other Staffing Enhancement Strategies and Patient Quality Improvement Initiatives.” The full Cornell report is available as an appendix to the DOH report.
Data and Code
Description of data and code files
Hospital and Nursing Home Staffing Data
At this time, we are unable to provide the main data inputs for these analyses, which were provided to us by the Department of Health. The wage data used, however, comes from our own wage estimates shown in Table 14 of the report.
Hospital and Nursing Home Staffing Code
hnh_create_hospital_data
hnh_hospital_tables
hnh_addendum_hospital_tables
hnh_create_nursing_home_data
hnh_nursing_home_tables
Nurse Employment and Training Code
net_01.01.acs.contents
net_02.01.usstack
net_02.02.puma.xwalk
net_03.01.working
net_04.01.retired
net_05.01.child
net_06.01.unemployed
net_07.01.export
net_acs.figure1
net_01.01.convert.xwalk
net_01.01.ipeds.contents
net_02.01.subset
net_03.01.merge
Nurse Employment and Training Data
net_ACS_download_info
net_PUMA_NYEDR_xwalk
Nurse Wages Code
nw_usa_00016
nw_subfile_opendata
nw_restrict_sample
nw_subfile_children
nw_subfile_educd
nw_subfile_nurse
nw_subfile_nypuma
nw_subfile_race_hispan
nw_subfile_region_metro
nw_subfile_wages
nw_analysis
nw_process_all
Nurse Wages Data
nw_IPEDS_download_info