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Exclusion of Medical Providers in Long Term Care from Accountable Care Organizations Primary Care Physician Restriction

Resolution and Position Statements

Payment, Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Practitioners

Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician

Policy C13 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) work with the appropriate parties to allow medical providers in long term care and Medical Directors of nursing facilities to participate in...

Social Media in Long Term Care

Resolution and Position Statements

Long-Term Care

Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician

Policy I-13 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine Board of Directors create a task force to develop a social media policy relevant to long term care.

Treating E-Cigarettes as Tobacco Products

Resolution and Position Statements

Care Settings/Types, Resident

Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician

Policy A-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, AMDA—Dedicated to Long-Term Care Medicine support treating e-cigarettes as tobacco products with the subsequent restrictions inherent with all tobacco products within post-acute and long-term care...

Controlled Substance Prescribing Upon Resident Admission to Nursing Facilities

Resolution and Position Statements

Medication, Practitioners

NP/PA, Physician

Policy C-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) initiate discussions with hospital and hospitalist organizations to make them aware of the need for appropriately written prescriptions for...

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)

Resolution and Position Statements

Advance Care Planning, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)

Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician

Policy D-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine and its state chapters promote the Physician's Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm by supporting education about, dissemination and...

Electronic Health Records in Long-Term Care

Resolution and Position Statements

Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Technology (HIT)

NP/PA, Physician

Policy E-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine investigate the current availability of and work with appropriate stakeholders to help develop ideal bidirectional electronic message and document...

Appropriate Use of Quality Indicators in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Population

Resolution and Position Statements

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Quality

Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician

Policy F-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other stakeholders to address the issue of appropriate use of Quality...

Practical Tools in the Long-Term Care Continuum

Resolution and Position Statements

Practice Management, Practitioners

Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician

Policy G-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine develop mechanisms to create, aggregate and promote easy access to existing and new practical tools for use in the post-acute and long-term care continuum.

Using the BEERS Criteria for Drug Utilization Review (DUR) and Medication Therapy Management (MTM)

Resolution and Position Statements

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, Medication, Practitioners

Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician

Policy H-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine support the autonomy of individual prescribers which allows medical treatment plans with potentially Beers Criteria inappropriate medications when...

Recognition of the “Nurse as Agent” of the Prescriber in Long Term Care Settings

Resolution and Position Statements

Federal Regulations, Medication, Practitioners

Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician

Policy F10 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA confirm its support of American Medical Association policy D-360.993 entitled “Recognition of the ‘Nurse as Agent’ of the Prescriber in Long Term Care Settings” which states “Our AMA will urge...