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Dipping or Diving: Trauma-Informed Care Expert Has the Answers

Spotlight
November 7, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Phase 3 of the revised Medicare and Medicaid requirements of participation for long-term care requires skilled nursing homes (SNFs) to provide “trauma-informed care” (TIC). Whether facilities and practitioners are...

Webinar Addresses the Multiple Challenges of Multimorbidity

Spotlight
October 29, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Caring for multimorbid patients comes with significant challenges and requires practitioners to successfully balance many issues and considerations at once. In a new Society webinar, Multimorbidity in Post-Acute...

October 27, 2019

Weekly Roundup
October 28, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Decubiti, pressure ulcer, pressure injury, decubitus ulcer. Call it what you will, as long as the emphasis is on quality care. During an AMDA On - The - Go podcast earlier this month on this important topic,...

Podcast Addresses Prevention, Treatment, More

Podcasts
October 24, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Decubiti, pressure ulcer, pressure injury, decubitus ulcer. Call it what you will, as long as the emphasis is on quality care. During an AMDA On-The-Go podcast earlier this month on this important topic, Jeffrey...

October 20, 2019

Weekly Roundup
October 22, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Earlier this year the Foundation for PALTC Medicine asked Society members to participate in a large-scale quality improvement study to evaluate the impact of the annual influenza vaccine choice on LTC facility...

October 6, 2019

Weekly Roundup
October 6, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Earlier this year the Foundation for PALTC Medicine asked Society members to participate in a large-scale quality improvement study to evaluate the impact of the annual influenza vaccine choice on LTC facility...

October 13, 2019

Weekly Roundup
October 13, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Earlier this year the Foundation for PALTC Medicine asked Society members to participate in a large-scale quality improvement study to evaluate the impact of the annual influenza vaccine choice on LTC facility...

September 29, 2019

Weekly Roundup
September 29, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When David Smith, MD, CMD, received the 2019 William Dodd Founder's Award at the Society's annual conference in Atlanta, GA, earlier this year, it was a "career-capping event." He urges Society members to take the...

September 15, 2019

Weekly Roundup
September 15, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When Joseph Mwesige, MD, MPH, CMD, first heard about the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine's Futures Program in 2016, he knew he wanted to participate. However, without the scholarship...

August 18, 2019

Weekly Roundup
August 18, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Delirium takes its toll, costing the health care system billions of dollars each year; and the condition is associated with increased morbidity, functional decline, nursing time, and caregiver burden, as well as...