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CDC releases updated consolidated testing guidelines for nursing homes

June 16, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
Testing a nursing home resident for COVID-19 more than once in a 24-hour period is not being encouraged by the federal government under updated guidance. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the weekend released consolidated...

Gov. Cuomo is still failing New York’s nursing homes

June 9, 2020
AMDA in the News
New York Post
COVID-19
On June 3, my nursing home reached a milestone: Our last known COVID-19 patient was released from quarantine, marking, we hope, the end of the crisis that overtook us in March. But we aren’t celebrating. The state Department of Health soon arrived...

Nursing home doctors recommend ways to reduce COVID-19 deaths as prospect of ‘second wave’ looms

June 8, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
In response to the estimate that more than one-third of COVID-19 deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities, the American Medical Directors Association has published recommendations to decrease the spread of the pandemic virus among nursing...

Nursing Homes Face Fines, Lawsuits Unless They Test for COVID-19 — But Access Often Out of Their Hands

June 8, 2020
AMDA in the News
Skilled Nursing News
COVID-19
As increasing numbers of states recommend so-called “universal testing” for nursing homes and long-term care facilities in the wake of the impact of COVID-19, skilled nursing facilities need to ensure they follow the applicable guidelines — a...

Handling COVID-19 in nursing facilities: AMDA offers lessons from New York State

June 7, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
A leading physicians group has compiled best practice recommendations for reducing the spread of COVID-19 in skilled nursing facilities, based on lessons learned in New York State. The guidance, from American Medical Directors Association, comes...

Senior living and care industry leaders speak out against racial inequity in COVID-19 pandemic, society

June 5, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
COVID-19
Senior living and care industry representatives are speaking out against racial inequity in response to rising protests across the country following the death of George Floyd and data on COVID-19 cases in long-term care disproportionately affecting...

JAMDA publishes study backing EarlySense use

June 4, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
A new case report published in JAMDA — the Journal of Post Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine supports the use of EarlySense patient monitoring to detect acute pulmonary embolism. Early Identification of Acute Pulmonary Emboli Through the Use of...

How One Nursing Home Stopped a COVID-19 Outbreak

June 3, 2020
AMDA in the News
Healthline
COVID-19
Deaths from the novel coronavirus in nursing homes account for more than half of all fatalities in 14 states, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation . Long-term care providers have been searching for labs or hospitals to perform tests for...

AMDA, ADVault Partner on advance care planning

June 3, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine partnered with the leading online advance care plan provider, ADVault’s MyDirectives.com , to help residents in nursing homes, assisted living and other long-term care facilities clearly...

How New York, Florida and other states handled COVID-19 threat to nursing homes differently

June 1, 2020
AMDA in the News
recordonline.com
COVID-19
By David Robinson / Gannett New York Posted May 29, 2020 at 6:30 AM Evidence is mounting that New York and other states that ordered nursing homes to admit residents infected with the coronavirus contributed to outbreak clusters and deaths. One...