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IMPROVING CARE TRANSITIONS FROM THE NURSING FACILITY TO A COMMUNITY-BASED SETTING

White Paper
Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
March 2009 I. Introduction Issues related to transitioning patients across sites of care increasingly have been in the national spotlight. There is evidence that poor transitions may result in adverse outcomes such as an avoidable re-...

IMPROVING CARE TRANSITIONS BETWEEN THE NURSING FACILITY AND THE ACUTE-CARE HOSPITAL SETTINGS

White Paper
Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
March 2010 I. Introduction The purpose of this white paper is to recognize and emphasize the importance of efficient patient-centered processes for transferring patients from the acute-care hospital (ACH) to skilled nursing facility/...

WHOM DO WE SERVE? DESCRIBING THE TARGET POPULATION FOR POST-ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE, FOCUSING ON NURSING FACILITY SETTINGS, IN THE ERA OF POPULATION HEALTH

White Paper
Advance Care Planning, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practitioners, Attending Physician, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Physician Assistant (PA)
NP/PA, Physician
March 2016 Introduction Post-acute care is comprised of medical, rehabilitation and nursing services aiming to restore maximal medical and functional status of patients discharged from hospitals. Long-term care refers to the services and...

DEMENTIA IN CARE TRANSITIONS

White Paper
Dementia, Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
March 2016 I. INTRODUCTION The forceful consequence of dementia was referred to as a “tidal wave” at the First World Health Organization (WHO) Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia in Geneva, Switzerland, where it was...

CAPACITY FOR SEXUAL CONSENT IN DEMENTIA IN LONG-TERM CARE

White Paper
Dementia, Ethics
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
March 2016 Introduction The purpose of this White Paper is to provide a context for approaching the challenge of evaluating the capacity for consent for sexual activity by persons with dementia residing in long term care (LTC) facilities...

K16— Reimbursement for Advance Care Planning for Non-Face-to-Face Services

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Care Planning, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practitioners, Attending Physician, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Physician Assistant (PA)
NP/PA, Physician
Resolution K-16 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine work with appropriate stakeholders to develop specific Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes that allow reimbursement for non-...

J16 — CPR in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care

Resolution and Position Statements
End-of-Life, Patient Centered, Resident
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Resolution J-16 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED , that AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine create a White Paper to address policies around the provision of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in nursing homes and education...

H16 — Support for Family Caregivers

Resolution and Position Statements
Resident
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Resolution H-16 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED , that AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine recognize and support the important role that family caregivers play; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED , that AMDA support policies and...

G16 — Accurate Mental Status Reporting

Resolution and Position Statements
Mental Health, Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Resolution G-16 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED , that that AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine adopt as policy that Mental Status be instituted when information is transmitted as patients transition between sites of...

B16 - Ensuring Appropriate Risk Adjustment Prior to Implementation of VBP Programs

Resolution and Position Statements
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Practice Management
NP/PA, Physician
Resolution B16 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED , that AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine will work with stakeholder organizations and federal agencies to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to...