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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...

Physician Advisory Boards for State Survey Agencies

Resolution and Position Statements
Survey, Practitioners
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Resolution A01 AMDA resolves to actively promote the formation of State Physician Advisory Boards to State Survey Agencies, which can respond to both local and national concerns. Their goals may include reviewing policy implementation,...

Graduate Education Centers

Resolution and Position Statements
Practitioners
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Resolution C06 BE IT RESOLVED that AMDA urge Congress to reinstate funding for Title VII, sections 753 (a), (b), and (c), geriatric education programs, namely Geriatric Education Centers, Geriatric Training for Physicians, Dentists and...

Kendra Sheppard, MD, CMD - Why AMDA is a Necessity for Me

Federal Regulations, Antipsychotics, Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
For Kendra Sheppard, MD, MSPH, CMD, AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) is as important as a comfortable pair of shoes on a long walk or a good night’s sleep before a grueling trip. Her membership prepares her,...

Know-it-All™ in the PALTC & Assisted Living Settings Series

Transitions of Care
Change of Condition, Practitioners, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team, Medical Director, Non-Physician Practitioners, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Physician Assistant (PA), Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
AMDA’s Know-It-All TM system is designed to maximize quality care and avoid unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Users of the system also state that it enhances teamwork and mutual respect, and the resident ultimately benefits. In...