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Post-Acute Care Use Associated with Medicare Shared Savings Program and Disparities

JAMDA
September 12, 2022
Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) was implemented in 2012, but the impact of the MSSP on institutional post-acute care (PAC) use, and by race/ethnicity and payer status is less studied. We studied the impact of hospital participation in the...

Come to the EDGE and Leap into the Future

Spotlight
September 11, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join AMDA’s EDGE22 Virtual Symposium, set for October 28, is a day when practitioners and others in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) become superheroes. They take on the controversial, challenging, and cutting-edge...

CMS Virtual Listening Session

Policy Snapshot
September 9, 2022
WHAT: Virtual listening session with health care providers and suppliers on emergency preparedness. Note: Due to an overwhelming interest in this session, we have increased capacity from 150 to 450 registrants, but we ask that registration be...

AMDA to CMS: Keep Proposed Increases to Nursing Home Codes/Stabilize Medicare Payment System

Policy Snapshot
September 9, 2022
The Society submitted its comments on the CY 2023 proposed physician fee schedule that the Centers for Medicare...

Tell CMS to Keep Proposed Nursing Facility Code Values

Policy Snapshot
September 2, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed increases to the work RVUs for nursing facility codes starting in 2023. The Society is encouraging our members to submit comments to CMS urging them to keep and finalize these rates...

Frailty in Nursing Homes—A Prospective Study Comparing the FRAIL-NH and the Clinical Frailty Scale

JAMDA
September 2, 2022
Frailty is common in nursing home (NH) residents, but its prevalence in German institutions is unknown. Valid and easy-to-use screening tools are needed to identify frail residents. We used the FRAIL-NH scale and the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) to...

A Cross-Sectional, Correlational Study Comparing Individual Characteristics of Younger and Older Nursing Home Residents using Western Canadian Resident Assessment Instrument–Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS) 2.0

JAMDA
September 2, 2022
To compare characteristics of nursing home (NH) residents by age categories in Western Canada.

Association of Cognitive Impairment With Rate of Functional Gain Among Older Adults With Stroke

JAMDA
September 1, 2022
This study explored the association between cognitive impairment at admission with self-care and mobility gain rate (amount of change per week) during a post-acute care stay (admission to discharge) for older adults with stroke.

Providers’ Perspectives on High-Quality Dementia Care in Long-Term Care

JAMDA
September 1, 2022
To understand dementia care providers’ perspectives on high-quality care for persons living with dementia (PLWD) in long-term care (LTC).

The Resilience and the Subsequent Hospitalization of Older People with Different Frailty Status: A Prospective Cohort Study

JAMDA
September 1, 2022
To evaluate the difference in resilience across frailty status by measuring the impact of unplanned hospitalization across people with different frailty condition on (1) 2-year changes in lean mass, physical performance, and quality of life, and (2...