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Lessons from COVID-19: Prioritize infection prevention and control for PALTC

January 13, 2022
AMDA in the News
Lessons from COVID-19: Prioritize infection prevention and control for PALTC
COVID-19
The Advancing Excellence in Long-Term Care Collaborative is a community of diverse collaborators who experienced the pandemic differently and from different perspectives. We have shared information, offered insights, supported each other and...

Are nursing home residents getting badly needed COVID boosters? Here’s why it’s hard to tell.

December 6, 2021
AMDA in the News
Are nursing home residents getting badly needed COVID boosters? Here’s why it...
COVID-19
In October and early November, 16 nursing home residents and one staff member at Philadelphia Protestant Home tested positive for COVID-19. Three people in independent living also got sick. It was a strong sign that vaccine protection was waning in...

New York nursing homes rank poorly on staffing

November 16, 2021
AMDA in the News
wivb.com
Joan Lorenzo has some memories of her mother’s stay at a local nursing home that she wishes she could forget. The smell of urine in her mother’s room, and on Lorenzo’s clothes once she left, is one of them. Lorenzo said her mother, Carmella Valenti...

The new Pain Management in the PALTC Setting Clinical Practice Guideline is FREE when you join AMDA

November 8, 2021
AMDA in the News
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
Pain Management
The CPG provides a foundation for a systematic approach to the recognition, assessment, treatment and monitoring of pain in PALTC care patients. It addresses common questions related to pain management, including appropriate use of opioids,...

LTC docs urge peers to rapidly increase use of COVID-19 antibody drugs

November 3, 2021
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
It’s time to take action to support rapid implementation of COVID-19 monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment in post-acute and long-term care facilities, a group of industry geriatricians contend. They’ve compiled a table of information-rich resources...

Nursing Home Staff Shortages Linger as Vaccine Mandate Looms

October 28, 2021
AMDA in the News
Bloomberg Law
The delta variant drove the share of nursing homes reporting staff shortages to the highest level ever in September—and the situation could worsen in coming months, according to new research. As the Centers for Medicare...

$10.5 million AMDA, CDC partnership aims to improve vaccination rates in senior living, other settings

September 21, 2021
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Immunization/Vaccination, Infection Prevention/Control
A five-year, $10.5 million agreement between AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and the federal government will try to improve vaccination rates among residents and staff members in senior living and other long-term care...

Staffing challenges are easy to see, hard to fix

August 5, 2021
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Few matters in senior living are as troubling as staffing. Any way you slice it, finding and keeping quality workers is not just a major challenge, it’s actually getting worse. Some very good commentary appears in a new position statement from AMDA–...

Adequate, consistent staffing necessary for senior living and care: AMDA

August 2, 2021
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
COVID-19
The pandemic made it even more clear that more workers are needed in senior living and care, according to a position statement released Thursday by AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. “AMDA has developed and issued our...

When less is more: The role of deprescribing and art of medication management

July 28, 2021
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
More prescriptions do not necessarily mean better health outcomes. Deprescribing, which is the planned and supervised process of intentionally stopping a medication or reducing its dose, is a critically important part of delivering safe, effective,...