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Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
A majority (60% to 80%) of nursing home residents have one or more psychiatric diagnoses, including dementia (Med Care Res Rev 2010;67:627–656). And post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) residents take an astonishing number of psychoactive...
Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
Telehealth use in the United States has increased by over 6,000% since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Medicare telehealth visits alone have increased by 63-fold, from 840,000 in 2019, to 52.7 million in 2020 alone, as discussed by a Department...
Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
An important way the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine advances its mission is by embracing and nurturing collaborative partnerships between practitioners and industry partners, both striving for better care for the...
JAMDA
July 31, 2022
To describe pressure injury (PrI) prevalence, comorbidities, and rehabilitation utilization among older adults with stroke at skilled nursing facilities’ (SNFs’) admission assessment.
JAMDA
July 31, 2022
We are writing to report on an innovative private-public partnership to improve outcomes in post-acute facilities. We collaborated in a novel partnership between Project ECHO (Extensions for Community Health Outcomes), state agencies, and managed...
JAMDA
July 31, 2022
To critically appraise and quantify the performance studies by employing machine learning (ML) to predict delirium.
Policy Snapshot
July 29, 2022
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched its enhanced Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System, which integrates data nursing homes report on their weekend staffing rates for nurses and information on annual turnover...
Spotlight
July 27, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) gets a hold on people, it doesn’t let go. Just ask Danny Felty, MD, FAAFP, CMD, a new state presidents council representative on the AMDA Board of Directors. He was a...
Policy Snapshot
July 22, 2022
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the first-ever home and community-Based Services (HCBS) quality measure set to promote consistent quality measurement within and across state Medicaid HCBS programs. The...
Policy Snapshot
July 22, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the 2023 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category III Implementation Guide (IG) , Schematron, and Sample Files for Eligible Clinician Programs. The 2023 CMS QRDA...