Vincent Mor

About

Vincent Mor is a Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice and the Florence Pirce Grant University Professor at the Brown University School of Public Health. He has been a faculty member since 1981, initially in the Department of Community Health, which later became the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice. He was tenured in 1987 and promoted to Professor in 1990. Dr. Mor was a founding member of the department's graduate program in 1986 and directed the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research for ten years. He served as Chair of the Department of Community Health from 1996 until 2010, contributing to the development of the Brown University School of Public Health. Recognized for his contributions over more than 40 years, he received the Susan Colver Rosenberg Medal of Honor in 2021.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Nursing
• Gerontology
• Internal medicine
• Political Science
• Emergency medicine
• Demography
• Environmental health
• Pediatrics
• Sociology

Selected publications

• Nursing Home Care in Crisis in the Wake of COVID-19

  JAMA · 2020 · 334 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  "Abandoned" Nursing Homes Continue to Face Critical Supply and Staff Shortages as COVID-19 Toll Has Mounted

  DOI

• Risk Factors Associated With All-Cause 30-Day Mortality in Nursing Home Residents With COVID-19

  JAMA Internal Medicine · 2021 · 223 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Importance: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely affected nursing homes. Vulnerable nursing home residents are at high risk for adverse outcomes, but improved understanding is needed to identify risk factors for mortality among nursing home residents. Objective: To identify risk factors for 30-day all-cause mortality among US nursing home residents with COVID-19. Design, Setting, and Participants: This cohort study was conducted at 351 US nursing homes among 5256 nursing…

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• A systematic review of long‐term care facility characteristics associated with <scp>COVID</scp> ‐19 outcomes

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021 · 131 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on long-term care facility residents and staff. Our objective was to review the empirical evidence on facility characteristics associated with COVID-19 cases and deaths. DESIGN: Systematic review. SETTING: Long-term care facilities (nursing homes and assisted living communities). PARTICIPANTS: Thirty-six empirical studies of factors associated with COVID-19 cases and deaths in long-term care…

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• Growth In Medicare Advantage Greatest Among Black And Hispanic Enrollees

  Health Affairs · 2021 · 116 citations

  Expansion of the Medicare Advantage program during 2009-18 saw greater enrollment among racial/ethnic minorities and other traditionally marginalized groups. Growth was more rapid among Black, Hispanic, and dually enrolled beneficiaries than among White and nondual beneficiaries. The implications of greater heterogeneity in the program for enrollee outcomes are uncertain.

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• Variation in <scp>SARS‐CoV</scp> ‐2 Prevalence in <scp>U.S.</scp> Skilled Nursing Facilities

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020 · 106 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  OBJECTIVE: To identify county and facility factors associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). DESIGN: Cross-sectional study linking county SARS-CoV-2 prevalence data, administrative data, state reports of SNF outbreaks, and data from Genesis HealthCare, a large multistate provider of post-acute and long-term care. State data are reported as of April 21, 2020; Genesis data are reported as of May 4, 2020. SETTING AND…

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Recent grants

• Ethics and Regulation Core (C)

  NIH · $68.6M · 2019–2030

• NIH Grant R01CA046331

  NIH · $1.0M · 1989

• METRIcAL - Music & MEmory: a Pragmatic TRIal for Nursing Home Residents with ALzheimer's Disease

  NIH · $571k · 2017–2018

Frequent coauthors

• Amal N. Trivedi

  Providence VA Medical Center

  375 shared

• Pedro Gozalo

  Providence College

  297 shared

• Stefan Gravenstein

  Brown University

  269 shared

• Kali S. Thomas

  Johns Hopkins University

  245 shared

• Momotazur Rahman

  Brown University

  223 shared

• Susan L. Mitchell

  Harvard University

  214 shared

• Andrew R. Zullo

  Brown University

  186 shared

• Zhanlian Feng

  RTI International

  179 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Brown University

• M.S.

  Brown University

• B.A.

  Brown University

Awards & honors

• Susan Colver Rosenberg Medal of Honor (2021)
• Distinguished Investigator Award from AcademyHealth (2011)
• John Eisenberg Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Agency…
• Distinguished Researcher Award from the National Hospice and…
• Elected to the National Academy of Medicine (2015)

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