Publications

SAN FRANCISCO — Reducing antibiotic use in hospitals and nursing homes is crucial to reversing the epidemic of antibiotic-resistant infections that threatens both the healthy and the ill. Now a new study has reported that a multipronged antibiotic...

Is there anything left to say about the role of dogs in post-acute and long-term care facilities? Yes, said Sue Halpern. In fact, she wrote a book about it. The star of A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home is Pransky, a friendly, well-trained labradoodle...

As the new Chair of the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, I am thrilled to provide some updates on the current work of the Foundation and our focus and plans for the coming years.

Jane Doe was a frail 81-year-old female resident who had resided in a skilled nursing facility for 18 months. Her medical history included hypothyroidism from having had a total thyroidectomy when she was a young adult. She required levothyroxine...