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Geriatric Medical Skills: Essential to Care

February 6, 2020
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD Along with the well-publicized nursing workforce shortage affecting nursing centers nationally, there is a tremendous shortage of qualified medical specialists in geriatric medicine, and the gap is growing every year. The...

ADVault Disrupts Person-centered Care with Multiple Milestones

January 22, 2020
AMDA in the News
Yahoo Finance!
ADVault, Inc., creators of MyDirectives ®, the world's leading all-digital advance care planning platform, is showcasing a series of achievements to help empower consumers to have a voice in their care at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The...

Copper Surfaces May Reduce Hand-Transmitted Infections in PALTC

January 15, 2020
Press Release
Infection control is a top priority for post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities. A new study in the January issue of JAMDA showed that copper surfaces may reduce the incidence of hand-transmitted healthcare-associated infections (HAI). This...

Study Suggests Changes in Efforts to Gauge Infections in Residents

January 10, 2020
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
​New research released in J AMDA said the way nursing centers gauge the susceptibility of their residents to infections by using measurements from the acute-care setting are not often accurate. The report said the so-called acute-care antibiograms...

Protecting Staff and Resident Health Requires a Comprehensive Staff Immunization Program—During Flu Season and Beyond

December 17, 2019
AMDA in the News
Annals of Long-Term Care
ECRI Institute and Annals of Long-Term Care: Clinical Care and Aging (ALTC) have joined in collaboration to bring ALTC readers periodic articles on topics in risk management, quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI), and safety for...

Dementia Cafés That Balance Programs, Guests Can Have Positive Impact

December 10, 2019
Press Release
As the global dementia population continues to grow rapidly, innovative strategies to provide care and support for patients and their families have evolved. Among the developments is the concept of the “dementia café.” A new study in the December...

AMDA 2020 headed to the Windy City in April

December 5, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine will hold its upcoming annual conference April 2-5 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago. Dozens of educational sessions and numerous networking opportunities will be available for the...

Landmark Marijuana Legislation Moves through Congress

December 4, 2019
AMDA in the News
J D Supra
By Alan Horowitz, Partner at Arnall Golden Gregory On November 20, 2019, the House Judiciary Committee passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act of 2019. The historic bill was sponsored by House Judiciary Chairman...

AMDA: OK to comfort feed

December 4, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Comfort feeding is acceptable. That is what authors of a new white paper argue. When deciding whether to offer food and fluids to a resident with advanced dementia, clinicians have a greater responsibility to the resident in his or her current state...

Opinion piece: Expand role of medical directors

December 3, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
At a time of rising medical complexity and stakeholder quality expectations, the role of industry medical directors could be much stronger, say the authors of an opinion piece published in the December issue of JAMDA. Sixteen years since the Office...