An increasing reliance on telemedicine for older adults with cognitive impairment requires a better understanding of the barriers and facilitators for this unique patient population.
Last week the Society, along with the American Medical Association (AMA) and other national medical groups, asked CMS to immediately release 2018, 2019, and 2020 Merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) benchmarks. The groups also urged CMS to...
Join the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call on Wednesday April 21, 2021, at 4:00 PM EST. Register in advance for this Zoom Call : During...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Milta Oyola Little, DO, CMD, came to her first AMDA Annual Conference in 2010 as a participant in the Foundation Futures Program. She knew that post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) was where she wanted to work and...
We thank Cintra and colleagues1 for pointing out the errors in our analyses.2 We re-extracted the data and recalculated the analyses and made 3 corrections. First, the mean difference of the survival period was −5.59 [95% confidence interval (CI) −...
Public reporting is a policy to improve quality and increase data transparency. The objective was to examine the association between publicly available staffing ratios and the Five-Star Quality Ratings from Nursing Home Compare over time.
To assess whether low systolic blood pressure (SBP) or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) due to antihypertensive medications might be related to mortality among nursing home (NH) residents.
