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a Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, New Brunswick, NJ
Correspondence: Nicholas G. Castle, PhD, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, 30 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. E-mail: Castle_Nick{at}Hotmail.com.
Laurence G. Branch, PhD
Purpose: This study examined organizational and market factors associated with nursing homes that are most likely to be early adopters of innovations. Early adopter institutions, defined as the first 20% of facilities to adopt an innovation, are important because they subsequently facilitate the diffusion of innovations to others in the industry. Design and Methods: Two groups of innovations were examined, special care units and subacute care services. I used discrete-time logistic regression analysis and nationally representative data from 13,162 facilities at risk of being early adopters of innovations during twelve 6-month intervals from 1992 to 1997. Results: Organizational factors that increase the likelihood of early innovation adoption are larger bed size, chain membership, and high levels of private-pay residents. Four market factors that increase the likelihood of early innovation adoption are: a retrospective Medicaid reimbursement methodology, a more competitive environment, higher average income in the county, and a higher number of hospital beds in the county. Implications: This analysis shows that organizational and market characteristics of nursing homes affect their propensity toward early adoption of innovations. Some of the results may be useful for nursing home administrators and policy makers attempting to promote innovation.
Key Words: Market factors • On-line Survey and Certification of Automated Records (OSCAR) • Organizational factors
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