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CMS Rule Requires Nursing Home Staff to be Tested for COVID-19

August 26, 2020
AMDA in the News
Medpage Today
COVID-19
WASHINGTON -- An interim final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that requires all Medicare-certified nursing homes test their staff for COVID-19 is drawing mixed reviews from the homes. "The pandemic has already cost...

Flu Shot Mandates for Nursing Home Staff Urged as Covid Persists

August 25, 2020
AMDA in the News
Bloomberg Law
COVID-19
The potentially deadly confluence of a raging Covid-19 pandemic and the upcoming flu season is prompting growing calls for states to require influenza vaccinations for all nursing home health-care personnel. The nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes...

Shortages threaten Trump’s plan for rapid coronavirus tests

August 9, 2020
AMDA in the News
Politico
COVID-19
The Trump administration is gambling that a new generation of fast, cheap coronavirus tests can bring the U.S. outbreak under control. The challenge now is getting enough of these tests to pursue that strategy. The rapid antigen tests, which hunt...

New York Providers Offer COVID-19 Lessons on Resident Care

August 1, 2020
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
COVID-19
​A recent report in JAMDA offers new expert consensus recommendations for managing COVID-19 in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) with a focus on addressing screening of residents and staff, management of COVID-19 positive and presumed positive cases...

Error Rates on Rapid Covid-19 Tests Put Nursing Homes on Edge

July 27, 2020
AMDA in the News
Bloomberg Law
COVID-19
The new rapid Covid-19 antigen tests being sent to thousands of U.S. nursing homes in high-infection areas have a troubling flaw: They provide false negative results for about 15% of infected people. As nursing home infections climb once again due...

Assisted living should be included in solution to COVID-19 crisis in long-term care

July 21, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
COVID-19
For all of its tragic outcomes, COVID-19 “presents an opportunity to do things differently and looking more systematically at large-scale solutions to care for older adults,” Christopher Laxton, executive director of AMDA – The Society for Post-...

How to solve the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care? Reform the system for one, AMDA advises

July 20, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
To improve the coronavirus problem in nursing homes, federal policy must be proactive, not reactive, and supportive, not punitive. So say managing physicians in nursing facilities. In “Solving the COVID-19 Crisis in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care,” a...

AMDA Formally Backs Adoption of National POLST Form

July 17, 2020
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine - AMDA - and National POLST said AMDA has become the first national organization to formally support the adoption of a national POLST (Physican Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) form. POLST...

State Actions, Lack of Collaboration During COVID-19 Peaks ‘Threw Nursing Homes into Chaos’

July 16, 2020
AMDA in the News
Skilled Nursing News
COVID-19
In calling for a complete overhaul of the way the government and society view long-term and post-acute care, a prominent group of geriatricians argued that the fractured response to COVID-19 in nursing homes may have caused more harm than good in...

Operators Greet Nursing Home COVID Testing Initiative with Cautious Optimism, Pointed Questions

July 15, 2020
AMDA in the News
Skilled Nursing News
COVID-19
One day after the federal government announced an ambitious plan to send point-of-care testing units for COVID-19 to all of the nation’s more than 15,000 nursing homes, leaders in the space expressed cautious optimism — while often emphasizing that...