There's Lots to Love About (Being) A Nursing Home Doctor

Long-Term Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Medical Director

March 20, 2016

Dr. Steinberg writes about AMDA and the National Day of Recognition for Long-Term Care Physicians:

I am blessed to have a job I love. Depending on what kind of mood I am in, I may tell people I am a SNFologist, a nursing home doctor, a palligeriatrician, or a variety of other labels. (A Skilled Nursing Facility is often referred to in the healthcare industry as a SNF, pronounced “sniff.”)

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title AMDA leadership weighs in on DEA’s telehealth medicine rules debate

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AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is pleased that the federal government is taking more seriously the need to relax restrictions on prescribing medication via telehealth, a spokeswoman said.

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path: https://old.paltc.org/newsroom/amda-leadership-weighs-dea%E2%80%99s-telehealth-medicine-rules-debate

title Coalition launches to improve access...

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A coalition of experts launched a new initiative Wednesday with the goal of getting 43 recommendations for medical and mental healthcare in assisted living put into practice...

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path: https://old.paltc.org/newsroom/coalition-launches-improve-access

title A light in the darkness: Swati Gaur, MD, medical director

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The rare number of New Horizons residents in northwest Georgia who find themselves in the COVID-19 ward now, beset with mild symptoms and upset over the inconvenience of being moved from their rooms after testing positive, tend to grouse to their medical director.

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path: https://old.paltc.org/newsroom/light-darkness-swati-gaur-md-medical-director

title 43 recommendations help fill gap in medical and mental healthcare guidance for assisted living, experts say

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Forty-three recommendations stemming from a new study represent “an initial step” to filling a gap in guidance regarding medical and mental healthcare in assisted living, according to the study’s authors, who said that such guidance “has been long-awaited.”
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path: https://old.paltc.org/newsroom/43-recommendations-help-fill-gap-medical-and-mental-healthcare-guidance-assisted-living

title Nursing Home Medical Directors Should Be Named Publicly, Bill Urges

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It's just a two-page, barely 200-word bill. But if passed as the authors intend, it would require all 15,000 Medicare-approved nursing homes in the nation to publicly report the name of their medical director.

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path: https://old.paltc.org/newsroom/nursing-home-medical-directors-should-be-named-publicly-bill-urges

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