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Why telehealth isn’t in nursing homes

August 21, 2019
AMDA in the News
Politico
TELEHEALTH: WHY NOT IN NURSING HOMES? — Virtual care could save frail, elderly patients from being shunted from the nursing home to the emergency department – a trip that could disorient them and worsen their conditions, especially if it’s not...

RAFT Model Cuts Emergency Department Transfers in SNF Population

August 19, 2019
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
Three rural skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) using the Reducing Avoidable Facility Transfers (RAFT) model saw emergency department (ED) trips from their facilities to hospitals decline “substantially,” and they also recorded a reduction in some...

Telemedicine could keep older patients out of the hospital. So why hasn't it taken off?

August 19, 2019
AMDA in the News
Politico
It's easy enough for a doctor on an app to prescribe a birth control pill or an antibiotic. But try getting one to virtually examine your sick mom in a nursing home. Chances are, she'll end up instead being sent to the hospital, where bad problems...

Finding a life RAFT for avoiding hospitalizations

August 15, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
If INTERACT used to be the Tom Cruise of the long-term care world, then RAFT is Chris Hemsworth. Reducing Avoidable Facility Transfers (RAFT), like the actor who plays Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, may have been originally dismissed as just...

RAFT model reduced hospitalizations of nursing home residents by 31%, study finds

August 14, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
The Reducing Avoidable Facility Transfers (RAFT) model reduced emergency department transfers and hospitalizations among skilled nursing facility residents by more than a third, according to a study in the August issue of the Journal of the American...

Telemedicine decreases ED use by senior living residents with dementia: study

August 7, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Use of telemedicine can decrease emergency department use by independent living and assisted living residents for their acute illnesses, according to a study newly published in the Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine . The researchers...

30th Annual Brevard County Long Term Care Symposium Set For Nov. 6

August 6, 2019
AMDA in the News
Space Coast Daily
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The 30th annual Annual Brevard County Long Term Care Symposium, sponsored by VITAS Healthcare, is set for Nov. 6 at the Hilton Melbourne Rialto Place and is presented by the Brevard County Medical Directors Association...

Study Says a Cognitive Intervention for Fear of Falling Gets Same Results as ‘Usual’ Care

July 25, 2019
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
A new study released in JAMDA says at least one type of cognitive behavioral intervention to help elders with a fear of falling after a hip fracture may not work any better than “usual” care in reducing such anxiety. The report said a fear of...

High-Dose Flu Vaccine Curbs Hospitalizations for Long-Stay SNF Residents, Study Says

July 12, 2019
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
New data from a study in JAMDA show that while influenza is a leading cause of avoidable and costly hospital admissions for long-stay skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents, the risk of an individual being sent to the hospital for this reason can...

High-dose flu vaccines reduce hospitalizations, overall Medicare costs in nursing homes

July 1, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
High-dose flu vaccinations are worth the extra cost for seniors living in long-term care, according to researchers at Brown University. Higher-dose shots cut hospitalization rates compared to their standard-dose cousins, showed a new cost-benefit...