Improving the quality of care delivered throughout the long-term care continuum is a core mission of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Four articles in this month's Journal report on how different forms of “communication”...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has required a working antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) in nursing homes for nearly two years. AMDA members and their facilities have long embraced efforts...
Last week the president released his 2021 fiscal year budget . The proposal would cut almost a trillion dollars from Medicaid over 10 years, give the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) more power to collect improper payments, impose...
Last week the Society, along with the American Medical Association and other national organizations, joined together to write the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in expressing support for the policies finalized by CMS to address...
The National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes (NPIDCNH) will hold a call on Tuesday, March 3 from 1:30 to 3 PM ET. During this call, learn about new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) toolkits for nursing homes:...
This is the second of 2 parts of a narrative review of nursing home-associated pneumonia (NHAP) that deals with etiology and treatment in the nursing home. In the 1980s and 1990s, the etiology of NHAP was considered to be similar to community-...
Dementia is a progressive incurable life-limiting illness. Previous research suggests end-of-life care for people with dementia should have a symptomatic focus with an effort to avoid burdensome interventions that would not improve quality of life...
