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New Webinar: Tackling the Opioid Crisis with PIPs and More

Spotlight
April 4, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join The growing focus on the opioid crisis in the United States has post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) practitioners reexamining how these medications are used in this setting. Fortunately, there are contacts,...

New Part D Policies from CMS Address Opioid Epidemic

Policy Snapshot
Opioids, Practitioners
April 4, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced new Medicare Part D opioid safety policies to reduce prescription opioid misuse while preserving medically necessary access to these medications. It’s important to note that these new...

AMDA to Host PDPM Webinar on April 18

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practice Management, Practitioners
April 4, 2019
AMDA is hosting a webinar, Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM): An Opportunity for PALTC Clinician, on Thursday, April 18, 2019, 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET. As always, this webinar is free to members. This session will discuss the details of PDPM, which will...

HCP LAN Issues Alternative Payment Model Roadmap

Policy Snapshot
Skilled Nursing Care, Payment, Practice Management, Practitioners
April 4, 2019
This week, the Healthcare Payment Learning and Action Network (HCP LAN) announced that the Roadmap for Driving High Performance in Alternative Payment Models is now live and available for use. This roadmap lets you explore this interactive, web-...

One Way Out? A Multistate Transition Model of Outcomes After Nursing Home Admission

JAMDA
April 4, 2019
To understand how the odds of both adverse and positive transitions vary over the course of episodes of care in nursing homes.

Predicting First-Time Injurious Falls in Older Men and Women Living in the Community: Development of the First Injurious Fall Screening Tool

JAMDA
April 3, 2019
The aim of this study was to create a screening tool to predict first-time injurious falls in community-living older men and women.

Frailty Should Not Be a Justification for Not Prescribing Anticoagulation in Older Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

JAMDA
April 3, 2019
We have read with great interest the article by Alagiakrishnan et al1 and we fully agree with their conclusion advising physicians to be aware of the association of atrial fibrillation (AF) with numerous geriatric syndromes.1 AF is the most common...

Frailty and Somatic Comorbidity in Older Patients With Medically Unexplained Symptoms

JAMDA
April 3, 2019
To examine the level of frailty and somatic comorbidity in older patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) and compare this to patients with medically explained symptoms (MES).

Scalability of an IT Intervention to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Homes

JAMDA
April 3, 2019
Pressure ulcers pose an important quality-of-care challenge in nursing homes, with serious consequences for residents' health. We assessed the scalability of the On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention (On-Time) intervention strategy, developed by the...

Copper for the Prevention of Outbreaks of Health Care–Associated Infections in a Long-term Care Facility for Older Adults

JAMDA
April 3, 2019
We aimed to study the efficacy of copper as an antimicrobial agent by comparing incidence rates during outbreaks in areas equipped vs not equipped with copper surfaces in a long-term facility for dependent older adults (nursing home).