HPM doctoral candidate Raymond Van Cleve will be defending his dissertation, "Home and Community Based Services: Who is Using Them and Can They Prevent Hospital Admissions?"

This dissertation focuses on how home and community-based services (HCBS) influences the well-being of disabled elderly Medicaid recipients in Pennsylvania. Specifically, this dissertation examines different recipient characteristics associated with different lines of HCBS services and whether certain services or combinations of services are associated with a higher or lower risk for experiencing a hospitalization.