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$10.5 million AMDA, CDC partnership aims to improve vaccination rates in senior living, other settings

September 21, 2021
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Immunization/Vaccination, Infection Prevention/Control
A five-year, $10.5 million agreement between AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and the federal government will try to improve vaccination rates among residents and staff members in senior living and other long-term care...

CDC Funds Cooperative Agreement with AMDA to Improve Immunization Rates in PALTC

September 20, 2021
Press Release
Immunization/Vaccination, Infection Prevention/Control
Columbia, MD – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine has been funded through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop and implement strategies to increase...

Do Nursing Home Prescribing Patterns Influence Antipsychotic Use in Assisted Living?

September 13, 2021
Press Release
The use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes (NHs) has come under intense scrutiny in recent years. A new study in the September issue of JAMDA suggests that reducing antipsychotic drug use in NHs may influence some assisted living (AL)...

NH Staff Need More Than Workshops to Contribute to Care Quality Improvements for End-of-Life Residents

August 25, 2021
Press Release
Ensuring quality end-of-life care for long-term care facility (LTCF) residents is a key role for nursing home (NH) staff, who must provide goal-directed, personalized interventions to ensure comfort and quality of life for these individuals. At the...

Some NHs Use POLST Inappropriately; Practice, Policy, Research Considerations Can Help

August 10, 2021
Press Release
COVID-19, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
The COVID pandemic brought a renewed focus on the importance of advance care planning (ACP) and identifying preferences for care and interventions prior to a medical emergency. There are various forms and processes that can be used for this purpose...

Staffing challenges are easy to see, hard to fix

August 5, 2021
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Few matters in senior living are as troubling as staffing. Any way you slice it, finding and keeping quality workers is not just a major challenge, it’s actually getting worse. Some very good commentary appears in a new position statement from AMDA–...

Adequate, consistent staffing necessary for senior living and care: AMDA

August 2, 2021
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
COVID-19
The pandemic made it even more clear that more workers are needed in senior living and care, according to a position statement released Thursday by AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. “AMDA has developed and issued our...

AMDA Statement Shines Spotlight on PALTC Staffing

July 29, 2021
Press Release
Organization recommends recruiting and training personnel first, then focusing on standards Columbia, MD – Adequate and consistent staffing for post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities has always been a key concern to assure the best patient...

Nursing-home workers have a vaccine problem

July 28, 2021
AMDA in the News
National Journal
Nursing-home residents could be vulnerable to serious infection as many health care workers remain unvaccinated. But even as the White House looks at vaccine requirements for federal employees, lawmakers and experts expressed doubts about the...

When less is more: The role of deprescribing and art of medication management

July 28, 2021
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
More prescriptions do not necessarily mean better health outcomes. Deprescribing, which is the planned and supervised process of intentionally stopping a medication or reducing its dose, is a critically important part of delivering safe, effective,...