Medical decision-making can be very complicated. With so many options and high-tech interventions, it’s no wonder patients and their families can become overwhelmed and bewildered when faced with choices in light of serious illness. Our job, and...
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — Each year, AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine honors leaders who follow in the footsteps of its founding fathers. This year, the William Dodd Founder’s Award went to Paul Katz, MD, CMD, and the James...
Alcohol and other drug abuse is a problem at any age. But for people in their 60s and 70s with substance abuse issues, “we have to think about clinical issues differently,” according to David W. Oslin, MD, professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Every day, post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) practitioners look at problems and challenges and think “What if?” This leads to innovative, creative solutions and, in Allison Gustavson’s case, a Society Quality...
This week the House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee held a mark =-up hearing that included The Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA). H.R. 1676, introduced by Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Tom Reed (R-NY), and Buddy...
Long-Stay Hospitalization Quality Measure The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to focus on reducing hospitalizations to improve the health and safety of nursing home residents. Over the last several years, CMS has...
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the agency’s first Data Element Library (DEL). The DEL is a new CMS database that supports the exchange of electronic health information. Using this free, centralized...
Since 2005, members of the LTPAC HIT Collaborative—a partnership of public-private group of stakeholder organizations representing associations, providers, policy-makers, researchers, vendors, and professionals with a mission to coordinate the...
The Society joined with the LTPAC HIT Collaborative to submit comments in response to CMS’ request for information (RFI) on interoperability. The Collaborative is a public-private group of stakeholder organizations representing associations,...
