TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Dr. Vincent Mor, head of the community health department at Brown University, will speak about the current disparities in quality of nursing home care, Monday, March 24, at noon in 104 Little Hall on The University of Alabama campus.

His lecture, “Driven to Tiers: Implications of a Two-Tiered System in Nursing Home Care,” is part of the UA Center for Mental Health and Aging’s Scientific Seminar Series. The event is free and open to the public.

Mor was one of the authors of the congressionally mandated Minimum Data Set (MDS) for Nursing Home Resident Assessment and evaluated its implementation. Currently, he is working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to develop and validate risk adjusted quality indicators for nursing homes that are being tested for public reporting throughout the country.

He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and numerous books and chapters on hospice, physical functioning, long-term care and cancer treatment patterns among the elderly as well as the organization of AIDS health services. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, Health Services Research, and The Hospice Journal.

Co-directors of the Center for Mental Health and Aging are Drs. Lou Burgio and Cindy Roff. For more information contact Denise Cleveland, CMHA project administrator, at 205/348-7512.