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PDPM: Why Medical Leadership is Critical

May 3, 2019
AMDA in the News
Provider
An engaged medical director, working closely with the interdisciplinary team, can help promote a safe and successful transition from RUGs. MAY 2019 Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD This October, the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) will supplant the...

‘Talking the Talk’: Advancing End-of-Life Conversations

April 16, 2019
AMDA in the News
Hospice News
Identifying patients in need of hospice earlier in the course of their illness is a business and moral imperative for hospice providers. Though conversations about end of life are difficult for everyone involved, including clinicians and social...

Reduce Hospital Readmissions With Effective SNF-to-Home Transitions

April 15, 2019
AMDA in the News
HealthLeaders
New data shows that patients discharged from a skilled nursing facility to home face the highest risk of readmission in the first two days after SNF discharge. KEY TAKEAWAYS Readmissions are a key financial and quality metric for hospitals. New data...

It’s Not Pot: What Senior Living Providers Should Know About CBD

April 8, 2019
AMDA in the News
Senior Housing News
Overall, however, there is little known about how CBD affects users, including seniors, according to Dr. Cari Levy, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and immediate past-president of AMDA – The Society for...

Assisted living finds itself at troubling crossroads

April 4, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
It’s no secret that more assisted living communities are competing with skilled care operators for high-need residents. But a recent piece in the New York Times is sure to raise troubling questions about this emerging strategy. The story in question...

Where There’s Rarely a Doctor in the House: Assisted Living

March 29, 2019
AMDA in the News
The New York Times
As residents become older and more frail, some facilities are bringing in doctors and nurses instead of relying on 911. “The assisted living industry has to recognize that the model of residents going out to see their own doctors hasn’t worked for a...

Bipartisan lawmakers revive observation stay legislation pushed by nursing homes

March 15, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Industry advocates are praising proposed legislation that says patients under “observation status” at a hospital would be eligible to satisfy Medicare’s three-day requirement necessary for skilled nursing coverage. A beneficiary currently must spend...

AMDA resolution calls for ‘comfort feeding’ of certain residents with dementia

March 13, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Dementia
Members of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine should adopt a policy of “comfort feeding” for certain residents with dementia rather than honor advance directives that indicate criteria that otherwise would trigger an order...

Study: Prioritize diagnosis for dysphagia

March 7, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
A group of researchers in Italy is calling management of dysphagia a priority issue for nursing homes after studying the swallowing disorder and its role in mortality. Led by Nikolina Jukic Peladic, Ph.D., of IRCCS-INRCA, a geriatric research...

It’s time we integrate medical care into assisted living

February 25, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Assisted living communities are now the fastest-growing component of post-acute and long-term care, or PALTC, in the United States. As residents have gotten older and their health conditions more medically complex, these communities are looking more...