The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is developing an emergency regulation requiring staff vaccinations within the nation’s more than 15,000 Medicare and...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be updating the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance feedback and final scores for some clinicians for the performance year 2020 and the associated MIPS payment...
Date of the Event : Monday, August 23 from 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT. Link to event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Iwkc7ZkK6w A recording will also be available at this link after the event. About the virtual event: The event will focus on the...
Despite face validity and regulatory support, empirical evidence of the benefit of culture change practices in nursing homes (NHs) has been inconclusive. We used rigorous methods and large resident-level cohorts to determine whether NH increases in...
With unprecedented demand for Medicaid long-term services and supports, states are seeking to allocate resources in the most efficient way. Understanding the prevalence of frailty and how it varies across home and community-based services (HCBS)...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join To formally acknowledge the pain post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) practitioners and team members have endured throughout the pandemic and continue to experience, AMDA recently launched the Healing Together...
Evidence about prescribing patterns of dementia medication in China is lacking. This study aimed to examine prescribing rates of antidementia and psychotropic drugs and factors associated with drug prescription for dementia in China.
We read with great interest the article by Rolland et al regarding the factors associated with inappropriate transfer of nursing home residents to the emergency department.1 The authors found that 21% of transfers were potentially inappropriate. In...
Training, implementing, and sustaining behavioral protocols among frontline workers of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is challenging for a variety of reasons. Limited resources, competing demands, protocol complexity, lack of a champion,...
