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Addiction Medicine in PALTC: Speaker to Share Guidance on Care, Respect, Dignity, Recovery

Spotlight
Opioids
November 26, 2018
Post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities increasingly are seeing patients with opioid addiction and other substance use disorders. Some are older adults—more like the traditional PALTC patients--and some are younger patients with various...

Flu Resources for PALTC Settings

Navigating PALTC
Immunization/Vaccination, Influenza
October 24, 2018
Click here for The Society Flu Resources

Black Box Warning About Fluoroquinolone Use

Clinical Alerts
September 7, 2018
FDA updates warnings for fluoroquinolone antibiotics on risks of mental health and low blood sugar adverse reactions at https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm612995.htm The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Recently...

CMS Reinvestment Program Offers Unique Opportunity for Quality of Life Innovations

Spotlight
August 8, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “We appreciate the opportunity to work with the Society and post-acute and long-term care [PALTC] practitioners,” says Stephanie Davis, MS, RD, chief of the LTC Certification & Enforcement Branch at the Centers...

Society President Travels the World for Leading, Cutting-Edge Research

Spotlight
July 23, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Traveling the globe as an ambassador of post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) is a source of great pride for Society President Cari Levy, MD, PhD, CMD. As she plans to speak at and attend the Nursing Home Research...

Secretary Azar Responds to Alternative Payment Model Proposals

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Practitioners
June 21, 2018
Last week, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar responded to a number of Alternative Payment Model (APM) proposals recommended by the Physician-Focused Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC). While the secretary felt very...

Dr. Peter Jaggard discusses the new ACP Product Series

Spotlight
Advance Care Planning, Patient Centered
April 25, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Traditional advance directives like the living will and power of attorney express patient choices in general terms for their medical care. More recent directives, such as physician order for life-sustaining...

Home Based Primary Care

Podcasts
Care Settings/Types, Practitioners
April 10, 2018
In this podcast , Suzanne M. Gillespie MD, RD, CMD, FACP, AGSF is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics/Aging and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr...

Effects of Legal Access to Cannabis on Scheduled II–V Drug Prescriptions

Podcasts
End-of-Life Care, Hospice, Long-Term Care, Opioids, Depression, Pain Management, Right’s
January 4, 2018
In our first podcast , AMDA-On-The-Go host, Dr. Wayne Saltsman, MD, PhD, CMD, FACP, interviews Dr. Cari Levy, MD, PhD, CMD. The topic of discussion is the JAMDA article "Effects of Legal Access to Cannabis on Scheduled II–V Drug Prescriptions". Dr...

Pressure Ulcers Slides Bundle (Nurses & CNAs)

Teaching Slides
Pressure Ulcers
Allied Health Professional, Patients & Families, Physician
Pressure Ulcer Teaching Slides for Nurses These teaching slides are created for nurses caring for patients in the PALTC setting. The slides are presented in an easy to learn format identifying patients at risk, locations of pressure ulcers, early...