The quality of care in the nursing home setting has attracted significant attention in recent years, especially when it comes to end-of-life care. In particular, there is a nexus between clinical burden, organizational context, and the quality of...
As per Benjamin Franklin, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Who would have thought that words spoken more than 200 years ago would so aptly apply today to the situation when patients transition after hospitalization? Indeed,...
To derive and validate a model to predict a patient's probability of skilled nursing facility (SNF) discharge using data available from day 1 of hospitalization.
To develop an ultrasonographic scanning protocol that included an assessment of muscle size [the proposed Bilateral Anterior Thigh Thickness (BATT)] and quality (echogenicity) to support the diagnosis of sarcopenia in a clinical setting. To...
For the past 16 years, the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine (CALTCM) has been offering practitioners from all over the country the chance to spend time in an intensive and highly interactive setting with leaders in the field of...
Arif Nazir, MD, CMD, chief medical officer for Signature HealthCARE, is the Society’s president for 2019-2020. Dr. Nazir shared his thoughts and insights on his new role in an exclusive video available online at https://paltc.org/publications/meet-...
Speaking at a session during the AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s annual conference, “Sleeplessness in the Nursing Home,” Ariel Cole, MD, FAAFP, CMD, admitted that she doesn’t always feel completely effective at...
At first glance, Ruby Kate Chitsey may seem like your average 11-year-old girl. She goes to school, spends time with her family, and plays with her pets. But this fifth grader has raised more than $100,000 to touch the lives — and hearts — of...
“This is important to me and to many geriatricians: the point of deprescribing is that we can do something,” said Daniel Haimowitz, MD, FACP, CMD, who spoke on this topic at the live AMDA On-The-Go podcast at the annual conference of AMDA — The...
