AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine applauds passage of legislation addressing the looming Medicare cuts to PALTC visits. Last month, Congress passed, and the president signed into law, S.610 — the Protecting...
On October 6, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed California’s AB 749 into law after it sailed through the state’s Assembly and Senate with minimal opposition. The bill requires almost all nursing facility medical directors to be certified through...
It’s hard to believe another year has passed us by. I am sure many of us feel similarly about 2021 as we did about 2020 — basically “Good Riddance!” — thanks in large part to the ongoing pandemic with its seemingly interminable surprises and surges...
In September 2021, the New York Times published an article entitled “Phony Diagnoses Hide High Rates of Drugging at Nursing Homes” ( https://nyti.ms/3miySfH ), which focused on the overdiagnosis of schizophrenia presumably to justify the prescribing...
Justice itself is a very elusive ethical principle, let alone defining justice during a pandemic that has been extremely difficult to navigate for a multitude of reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic is still testing our very limits of what it means to be...
As the Futures Program celebrates its 20th anniversary, I’m inspired to go “back to the future” when an invitation to the Futures Program from the Colorado state chapter of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine arrived in my...
In 2008, Danny Felty, MD, was accepted into the Certified Medical Director (CMD) Certification program of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Now a chief medical officer with Legacy Care, he reflects on how this program...
Images of family caregivers looking through windows to see their loved ones in nursing homes have come to characterize a serious challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic: supporting families who are separated from their loved ones. Family and caregiver...
The worsening shortage of registered nurses (RNs) will further burden long-term care (LTC) settings in the United States. In a recent survey, 94% of nursing homes (NHs) and 81% of assisted living communities reported staffing shortages; 73% and 59...
