The Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality, and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care (OPTIMISTIC) project led to significant decreases in potentially avoidable hospitalizations of long-stay nursing facility residents...
We thank doctors Dharmarayan and Yoo for their comments on our article.1 In line with the literature and our results, they found a substantial lack of consistency among the results of different formulas estimating renal function by investigating a...
Due to the COVID1-19 pandemic, on March 4, 2020, CMS has temporarily suspended surveys for certain non-emergent issues. However, inspectors will still be able to able to address safety issues such as infection control and abuse. The medical director...
A staggering 7.5 million older adults were hospitalized in 2017 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018, http://bit.ly/39Zycoc; Administration for Community Living, 2017, http://bit.ly/3a1zijp ), including 1.5 million of the oldest old...
In last month’s column I addressed the concept of stewardship. I applied this concept to the emotions of my father and his fellow pilot cadets in World War II, which I found in dad’s letters home during the war. The word “stewardship” is defined in...
Point-of-care chest ultrasound may represent a valid bedside diagnostic aid when caring for older individuals with an acute respiratory disease, according to a study conducted in Italy.
The immediate past president and the executive director of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine sum up recent accomplishments and initiatives in progress and share plans for the future. 3
The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), as we all know by now, is the new reimbursement system model that Medicare is currently using to determine payments for skilled nursing facilities, which started on October 1, 2019. PDPM replaces the previous...
