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Department of Community Medicine Dr. Carter received her doctorate degree in gerontology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. While in Boston, Dr. Carter’s research examined variations in hospital use rates among nursing homes residents related to facility-level and geographic market-level attributes. Following the completion of her doctoral studies, Mary Carter was selected to be a NIA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota. As a fellow, Dr. Carter worked in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota’s school of Public Health, where her research explored variations in quality of care related to facility structural and organizational attributes. Dr. Carter’s work at WVU’s Center on Aging continues to focus on quality of care and health outcomes among nursing homes residents. Currently, she is collaborating on a project investigating factors contributing to highly discretionary and ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations among nursing home residents with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Additionally, she is exploring how resident risk of hospitalization varies in relation to facility performance on select quality indicators (e.g., decubitus ulcers; physical restraint use). |
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Mary Carter, PhD