Resolution F95 Becomes Policy December 1995 The Pennsylvania Medical Directors Association recommends that AMDA House of Delegates, after appropriate Committee review, should adopt a policy assuring equitable representation of diverse...
Resolution G95 Becomes Policy October 1995 AMDA resolves that the American Medical Association advocate for uniform state based requirements that both Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing facilities retain only licensed physicians as...
Resolution B96 Becomes Policy March 1996 The American Medical Directors Association resolves to petition the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Family Practice, and the American Osteopathic Association to...
Resolution F96 Becomes Policy March 1996 AMDA resolves to work with HCFA to clearly display, on Durable Medical Equipment (DME) forms requiring physician signature for approval, the charge of the equipment being dispensed; and AND BE IT...
Resolution K96 Becomes Policy March 1996 AMDA resolves to recommend that Nursing Home Medical Directors be selected based on their qualifications, training, and experience and not their ability to refer patients.
Resolution D97 Becomes Policy February 1997 The American Medical Directors Association recommends that each nursing facility should have available an ethics mechanism to assist medical directors, attending physicians, residents, families...
Resolution H97 Becomes Policy February 1997 AMDA resolves to actively support the responsibility of the LTC physician to decline, when appropriate, adjunctive treatments and services in the facility without recrimination.
Resolution L97 Becomes Policy September 1998 AMDA resolves that managed care organizations covering patient stays in long term care facilities, including subacute care admissions, should coordinate with the facility access for their...
Position Statement P97 Becomes Policy February 1997 Background Care at the end of life is an important issue to members of the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). As primary care physicians, we help patients and their families...
Resolution A98 Becomes Policy March 1998 AMDA resolves to work to promulgate clinical practice guidelines for pain control in long term care; and through the AMDA Foundation support education and research in pain management in long term...
