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EarlySense InSight™ System to Ensure Patient Safety in Healthcare Institutions

November 1, 2016
AMDA in the News
Health Professional Radio
Skilled Nursing Care, Falls, Transitions of Care
Dr. Zachary Palace has been using EarlySense products at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale. Since using EarlySense, his facility has reduced the frequency of patient falls by almost 40% and has seen a significant reduction in the number of re-...

Dr. Joe Leverett Awarded Tampa Bay Trophy

November 1, 2016
AMDA in the News
Air Force
Dr. Joe Leverett received the Tampa Bay Trophy during the 2016 Airlift Tanker Association convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Oct. 27, 2016.

Dr. Nathaniel H. Copeland, 95, accomplished physician

October 28, 2016
AMDA in the News
The Philadelphia Tribune
Dr. Nathaniel H. Copeland, an accomplished physician and avid golfer, died on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. He was 95.

Medina-Walpole Chosen to Lead Division of Geriatrics and Aging

October 25, 2016
AMDA in the News
University of Rochester Medical Center Newsroom
Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
Esteemed geriatrics clinician, mentor and educator Annette (Annie) Medina-Walpole, M.D., has been named chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Aging at the University of Rochester Medical Center. A professor in the Department of Medicine, Medina-...

Swagerty Named Chair

October 24, 2016
AMDA in the News
Dayton Daily News
Certified Medical Director
Dr. Daniel L. Swagerty Jr. has been named professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics at Wright State University, effective April 1, 2017.

Incomplete End-of-Life Forms Vex Physicians

October 14, 2016
AMDA in the News
Medscape
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Patient Centered
A study of elderly patients' end-of-life forms found that 69% had at least one section left blank, and 14% indicated the patient wanted comfort measures only, but also that they wanted be sent to the hospital, receive intravenous fluids, and/or...

Senior Living Team Can Help Clarify Older Adults' End-of-Life Wishes

October 4, 2016
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Patient Centered, Resident, Right’s
Physicians' Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments, or POLST, forms often are seen as a way to honor the end-of-life wishes of frail elderly individuals when they no longer can speak for themselves. A study published last week in the Journal of the...

Alzheimer’s, Regulations, and Stakeholder Input Top of Mind at Argentum Policy Institute

September 29, 2016
AMDA in the News
Argentum Update
Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease
The landscape of long term care policy is changing and senior living leaders would be well served to continue to lean in on the issues to shape the debates and steer the industry’s future, said panelists at Argentum’s Public Policy Institute on...

Study: Confusion on End-of-Life Forms Can Cause Elderly Patients to Receive More Emergency Care Than They May Have Wanted

September 28, 2016
AMDA in the News
University at Buffalo the State University of New York
End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), End-of-Life, Patient Centered, Resident, Risk
In recent years, Physicians’ Orders for Life Sustaining Treatments (POLST) forms have been seen as an important way to honor the end-of-life wishes of frail elderly or terminally ill patients who cannot speak for themselves. But while the goal of...

UPMC Launches Telehealth Startup to Keep Nursing Home Patients Out of the Hospital

September 21, 2016
AMDA in the News
Healthcare IT News
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Transitions of Care
UPMC Enterprises announced a new upstart focused on preventing nursing home patients from needing to go a hospital emergency room. Named Curavi Health, the emerging company has proprietary CuraviCare software, which facilitates interaction between...