Swagerty Named Chair

Certified Medical Director

October 24, 2016

Dr. Daniel L. Swagerty Jr. has been named professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics at Wright State University, effective April 1, 2017.

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title AMDA leadership weighs in on DEA’s telehealth medicine rules debate

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AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is pleased that the federal government is taking more seriously the need to relax restrictions on prescribing medication via telehealth, a spokeswoman said.

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title Coalition launches to improve access...

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A coalition of experts launched a new initiative Wednesday with the goal of getting 43 recommendations for medical and mental healthcare in assisted living put into practice...

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title A light in the darkness: Swati Gaur, MD, medical director

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The rare number of New Horizons residents in northwest Georgia who find themselves in the COVID-19 ward now, beset with mild symptoms and upset over the inconvenience of being moved from their rooms after testing positive, tend to grouse to their medical director.

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title 43 recommendations help fill gap in medical and mental healthcare guidance for assisted living, experts say

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Forty-three recommendations stemming from a new study represent “an initial step” to filling a gap in guidance regarding medical and mental healthcare in assisted living, according to the study’s authors, who said that such guidance “has been long-awaited.”
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title Nursing Home Medical Directors Should Be Named Publicly, Bill Urges

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It's just a two-page, barely 200-word bill. But if passed as the authors intend, it would require all 15,000 Medicare-approved nursing homes in the nation to publicly report the name of their medical director.

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