Simply stating the obvious, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed areas of weakness in the systems we need to provide care for those in our charge. Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris Administration published its goals to improve care in a Fact Sheet (“...
Upon entering the nursing facility one afternoon you encounter Mrs. Jones, an 84-year-old woman with a history of dementia, who propels her wheelchair toward you screaming, “Help me get out of here! Mama is trying to come get me, but they won’t let...
My dad was born in June 1928 as part of the Greatest Generation, enlisting in the U.S. Army upon graduating from high school. He was stationed in Italy during the cessation of hostilities and still talks about his two years of service as though it...
“Where are you from?” This was the first question Ms. Sylvia asked me after we settled down in our chairs where she could hear and see me. She had functional hearing aids that had been recently updated, but due to her sensorineural hearing loss the...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon issue a Comparative Billing Report (CBR) on Medicare Part B claims for initial nursing facility evaluation and management visits. Use the data-driven report to compare your billing...
Please join the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, and her leadership team on Tuesday, November 1, at 3:00 PM ET for an update on CMS’ recent accomplishments and how its cross-cutting...
This study examined the association of living alone with changes in depressive symptom status and the moderating effect of non–face-to-face social interactions among older adults during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Advocacy. It’s not a one and done effort. It takes time, hard work, and patience. Jay Slotkin, MD, MPH, CMD, knows this from experience, and he shared his insights in a recent AMDA In-The-States podcast on State...
To describe dispensing patterns of antipsychotic medications to long-term care (LTC) residents and assess factors associated with continuation of an antipsychotic after a fall-related hospitalization.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded the archive for Doctors and Clinicians (DAC) in the Provider Data Catalog (PDC) on Care Compare. This expansion allows users to access historic Merit-based Incentive Payment System...
