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Motivated, Engaged Physician Leaders Bring Higher Value to Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Settings

December 3, 2019
Press Release
In Engaging Physician Leaders for Higher Value, an article in the December issue of JAMDA, the authors discuss how medical director engagement is below par in the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) setting and offered strategies for enhancing...

Medical directors ‘woefully’ underused, unengaged in long-term care settings: researchers

December 3, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Physicians are calling on skilled nursing facility leadership to set up formal systems to help increase medical director engagement in post-acute and long-term care settings. The recommendation was one of several proposals made by physicians in a...

CAUGHT … RED HANDED?

November 27, 2019
AMDA in the News
Politico
CAUGHT … RED HANDED? — A red-hand “consumer alert icon” intended to warn patients from selecting unsafe facilities on CMS's Nursing Home Compare website could destroy “blame-free environments,” the Society for Post-Acute And Long-Term Care Medicine...

Opposition to Nursing Home Abuse Icon Grows as Group Warns of ‘Unintended Consequences’

November 25, 2019
AMDA in the News
Skilled Nursing News
The long-term and post-acute care industry’s reaction to a new federal abuse warning icon for nursing homes was swift and negative when the plan was first announced last month — and now another voice has entered the fray to claim that the icons may...

Society to Administrator Verma: Red Hand Icon Could Have Unintended Consequences

November 25, 2019
Press Release
The Society sent a letter on Friday, November 22, to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma about the recent addition of a red hand “consumer alert icon” on the Nursing Home Compare website. The icon is designed...

AMDA: Abuse icon violates patient safety principle

November 25, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
The new Nursing Home Compare consumer alert icon violates a patient safety principle that calls on providers to establish blame-free environments for reporting incidents, medical directors stated in a new letter to the Centers for Medicare &...

Hip protectors reduce risk of fractures by threefold, study finds

November 21, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Nursing home residents who use a hip protector are three times less likely to suffer fall-related hip fractures than those don’t use them, a new study found. Patients who fell while not wearing the devices had rates of hip, pelvic and other...

Study: Hip Protectors Show Promise for Reducing Fall-Related Fractures

November 21, 2019
Press Release
Falls are the leading cause of hip fracture in older adults, and those individuals who experience such injuries generally have greater mortality and morbidity. However, a new study in the November issue of JAMDA showed that in a retrospective review...

New Recommendations Out on Comfort Feeding for Residents with Advanced Dementia

November 20, 2019
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
A new white paper in the November issue of JAMDA said even though much of the discussion about stopping eating and drinking by advance directives (SED by AD) focus on patient autonomy, the ethical principle of justice is the decisive factor in this...

Comfort feeding OK for those with advanced dementia, regardless of advance directives: AMDA

November 13, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
When deciding whether to offer food and fluids to a resident with advanced dementia, clinicians have a greater responsibility to the resident in their current state than to those who originally drew up an advance directive that calls for food and...