Home Care Research Grant

2026 Home Care Dissertation Research Grant Proposals

The Research Institute for Home Care (the Institute) seeks to sponsor dissertation grants to help advance home care and hospice and may seek to improve care delivery at home through quality and innovation. Funding will be awarded up to $10,000 maximum per grant. Up to three projects may be funded from this announcement.

Objective: To further home care research as it pertains to both the current challenges facing healthcare delivery and critical areas of need in the future. Topics considered will be consistent with the Institute’s mission of expanding and improving access to and delivery of health care in the home by informing policy and identifying best practices and patient care models. Projects must have focus in at least one of the following areas: home health, home-based hospice and palliative care, and/or home and community-based care. Topics given priority for funding may include in no particular order, and inclusive of any and all payer types:

Workforce
Rural Health
Patient Access to Home Care
Virtual Care
Disease-specific Innovation

Download the full RFP here!

RFP Responses: Please send responses in electronic PDF format to jschiller@researchintituteforhomecare.org by no later than 5 pm ET on Friday, May 1, 2026. Only complete responses will be considered.

2025 Home Care Dissertation Research Grant Proposals

Congrats to our 2025 dissertation grant awardees!

Yiqing Kuang, MS, PhD student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Natalie Turner, MSW, PhD student at the University of Washington School of Social Work

Funded Home Health Research Grant Projects

Communication and Care Coordination Between Home Health Care Agencies and Clinicians with Providers Who Order and Certify Home Health Care Services

Researchers:
Bruce Leff, MD, Cynthia Boyd, MD, MPH, Orla Sheehan, MD, PhD, Alicia Arbaje, MD, MPH, PhD, Danielle Pierotti, RN, PhD, CENP, Kimberly Carl, RN, Jonathan Norton, BS, Amelie Nkodo, MS, MNSP

In affiliation with Johns Hopkins University

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Home Health Agencies in the Changing Policy Environment

Researchers:
Jingjing Shang, PhD, RN, OCN, FAAN, Patricia Stone, PhD, RN, FAAN, Andrew Dick, PhD, Ashley Chastain, DrPH, MPH

In affiliation with Columbia University School of Nursing and the RAND Corporation

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Press Release

Identifying the Value and Impact of Home Health Care for People Living with Dementia

Researchers:
Olga Jarrín, PhD, Robert Rosati, PhD, Abner Nyandege, PhD, Tami Videon

In affiliation with Rutgers University and the VNA Health Group

Press release

The Flipped Discharge: Development and Implementation of an Innovative Hospital to Home Intervention for Older Adults at Risk for Institutionalization

Researchers:
Rebecca L. Trotta, PhD, RN

In affiliation with the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania

Press release

Research Briefing

Laying the Groundwork for Studying Impact: Empirically Defining Frontloading Through and Analysis of Home Health Visits, 2008 to 2016

Researchers:
Brant Morefield, PhD, Lisa Tomai, MS

In affiliation with L&M Policy Research, LLC

Press release

Enhancing Quality with Culture-Sensitive, Patient-Center Assessments and Care Planning

Researchers:
R. Kevin Mallinson, PhD, RN, Mary Curry Narayan, MSN, RN, HHCNS-BC, CTN-A

In affiliation with George Mason University

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Press release

Challenges and Best Practices in Delivering Family Caregiver Training During Medicare Home Health

Researchers:
Julia Burgdorf, PhD, Alicia Arbaje, MD, MPH, PhD Jennifer Wolff, PhD

In affiliation with Johns Hopkins University and VNS Health

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Download Briefing on “Barriers and Facilitators to Family Caregiver Training during Home Health”

Press release

Interdisciplinary Deprescribing via Telehealth in Home Health Care

Researchers:
Jinjiao Wang, PhD, RN; Assistant Professor, Jenny Shen, MD

In affiliation with University of Rochester School of Nursing

Research Briefing

Press release

Understanding the Perspectives of Key Home Health Stakeholders Towards Home Health Value Based Purchasing (HHVBP) in the United States

Researchers:
Madeline Sterling, MD, MPH, MS, Christine D. Jones, MD, MS, Tracy M. Mroz, PhD, Lisa M. Kern, MD, MPH, Claire Ankuda, MD, MPH, Alicia Arbaje, MD, MPH, Penny H. Feldman, PhD

In affiliation with Weill Cornell Medicine