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...
The pressure has been mounting for skilled nursing facilities to prevent avoidable hospitalizations, and a statistic from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) explains why. According to CMS, among Medicare-Medicaid enrollees in...
The Year in Review keynote address during the opening general session of the annual conference of AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine stood out as a source of clinical insight applicable across a broad range of conditions...
The Howard Guterman Best Poster Award was presented at the 2019 annual conference of AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine to a research team led by Tiffany Rose, NP. At the conference, Ms. Rose, a nurse practitioner from...
July is almost here, the month that begins the medical year. July 1 is the day the new interns start their rotations at the hospital, perhaps not the best time to be in the hospital if you can avoid it. It’s also the day my mother died in a local (...
The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) will take effect on October 1, 2019. This not only represents a major change in how skilled nursing facilities are reimbursed; it also will significantly impact the dynamic between clinicians and the...
Increasing numbers of patients are referred to skilled nursing facilities, or SNFs, following discharge from the hospital. A new model, however, can help predict as early as the day of admission which patients are likely to require discharge to a...
