Rates of death and hospitalization are “significantly” higher in Ontario’s for-profit nursing homes than in non-profit ones, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association .
Sometimes nurses neglect to inform prescribers that the condition of a patient receiving an antibiotic has stabilized, which may signal the need to discontinue the medication, said Naushira Pandya, MD, president of the AMDA, the Society for Post-...
Launched in June, UPMC, the University of Wisconsin and the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) are collaborating to study the overuse of antibiotics in hospitals and doctor’s offices. With UPMC leading, the researchers will...
Dr. Victoria Walker, the Good Samaritan Society’s chief medical officer, has been appointed to a two-year position on AMDA's Public Policy Committee, a committee that helps shape national policy on senior care issues.
On June 2, 2015, the White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship convened leaders in agriculture, and animal and human health, as well as representatives from the pharmaceutical and food safety industries. The event followed the March release of the...
The $3.83B company on August 6, 2015 announced the publication of new data from its ongoing open-label safety extension study, the -015 Study, with NUPLAZID™ in patients with Parkinson’s disease psychosis (PDP) in the July 31 online issue of the...
A world traveler who is active in her community, Pandya is proud to have grown an outpatient clinic and to have made “person-centered care” more than a buzz-worthy phrase. She is using her platform to work with pharmacists, doctors and nursing...
A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposal to reimburse practitioners for discussing advance care planning drew praise of long-term care medical directors in July.
The ultimate goal is to enhance the workforce — nurses, social workers, primary-care physicians and the public,” said geriatrician Paul Katz, chair of the College of Medicine’s Department of Geriatrics and past president of the American Medical...
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care will be leading a three-year $1.5 million national trial to examine methods to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics in post-acute and long-term care communities.
