The number of nursing home residents with either primary or comorbid substance use disorders (SUDs) is on the rise — while the average age upon admission is getting younger — according to a consultant tasked with training medical professionals and...
What does it take to give nursing home residents a true feeling of home? Dutch researchers have found that the architecture and interior design of a facility can have a profound impact — and in a new research article, they offer checklists and...
Alarms have gotten much more attention in the last few years as a patient safety intervention, and they seem to have far more opponents than proponents. I’m not talking about alarms that alert an intensive care unit nurse of a critically low oxygen...
While AMDA — the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has represented the nursing home medical director since the 1970s, the role of a facility’s medical directors has historically been a better kept secret than Superman’s alter ego...
As the health care payment landscape continues to shift dramatically at a rapid pace, leaders at AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine have worked hard to ensure that post-acute and long-term care is at the forefront of...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Each day, 10,000 people turn 65; and they enter a phase of life that includes multimorbidty, functional impairment, and transitions from the hospital to PALTC facilities. While a growing number of practitioners...
National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Tuesday, March 20 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET Register for Medicare Learning Network events. During this call, gain insight on the phase two changes for person-...
This Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) demo, available here , shows users a new qpp.cms.gov feature. This feature will allow a user from a group who submits their Quality Measures for the purposes of Merit-Based Incentive Program (...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM) Annual Update Pre-Publication Document , which describes changes in the standards and code set versions used in the updated measures...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Having completed fellowships in geriatrics and infectious diseases, Theresa Rowe, DO, MS, knows all about the importance of understanding and controlling infections in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC)...
