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I first stepped into a nursing home when I was six years old. My mother was a certified nursing assistant who always worked 12-hour shifts. Since my father was also working, sometimes she had no choice but to have the bus drop me off at the long-...

MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join If you have an idea for a program session at AMDA’s PALTC23 Annual Conference—which is being held March 9-12 in Tampa, FL—Verna Sellers, MD, CMD, and her colleagues want to hear it by the July 19 deadline. “We want...

One fifth of Medicare patients discharged from a hospital are readmitted within 30 days. Roughly 75% of patients with a hip fracture and 20% of patients without a hip fracture are transferred to a nursing facility (NF) after hospitalization.1...