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March 2, 2020
A skilled nursing facility in the state of Washington became the first U.S. site of a coronavirus outbreak, officials announced Saturday. By Sunday, there were reports of one dead resident and four others hospitalized due to the virus, which has...
March 2, 2020
As the world faces the coronavirus threat, public health officials and experts are working to help stop its spread and protect the public. While experts are learning more about how the disease can affect the public, there is one certainty: The older...
March 1, 2020
An outbreak of coronavirus disease in a nursing home near Seattle is prompting urgent calls for precautionary tactics at America’s elder care facilities, where residents are at heightened risk of serious complications from the illness because of the...
February 12, 2020
Since the landmark passage of a sweeping oversight bill in the late 1980s, hundreds of nursing homes have closed — while those that remained have increasingly taken on more difficult medical cases, according to new research from Brown University...
February 11, 2020
The population of residents served by nursing homes has undergone dramatic changes in the past 30 years – including a 15% increase in post-hospital admissions. That’s a takeaway from a recent study that highlights trends since the 1987 passage of...
February 11, 2020
Rajeev Kumar, MD Like most people, there are days when it is tempting to kick back and reminisce about all the fun during long lost childhood days. Fond memories of long, and fun-filled, driving vacations—each and every summer—are still gleefully...
February 7, 2020
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Annual Conference will take place April 2-5 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Clinical developments in geriatric medicine, best practices, regulatory updates, networking opportunities and...
February 6, 2020
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...
January 22, 2020
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...
January 10, 2020
​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...