For the past 16 years, the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine (CALTCM) has been offering practitioners from all over the country the chance to spend time in an intensive and highly interactive setting with leaders in the field of...
Arif Nazir, MD, CMD, chief medical officer for Signature HealthCARE, is the Society’s president for 2019-2020. Dr. Nazir shared his thoughts and insights on his new role in an exclusive video available online at https://paltc.org/publications/meet-...
Speaking at a session during the AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s annual conference, “Sleeplessness in the Nursing Home,” Ariel Cole, MD, FAAFP, CMD, admitted that she doesn’t always feel completely effective at...
At first glance, Ruby Kate Chitsey may seem like your average 11-year-old girl. She goes to school, spends time with her family, and plays with her pets. But this fifth grader has raised more than $100,000 to touch the lives — and hearts — of...
“This is important to me and to many geriatricians: the point of deprescribing is that we can do something,” said Daniel Haimowitz, MD, FACP, CMD, who spoke on this topic at the live AMDA On-The-Go podcast at the annual conference of AMDA — The...
The pressure has been mounting for skilled nursing facilities to prevent avoidable hospitalizations, and a statistic from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) explains why. According to CMS, among Medicare-Medicaid enrollees in...
The Year in Review keynote address during the opening general session of the annual conference of AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine stood out as a source of clinical insight applicable across a broad range of conditions...
The Howard Guterman Best Poster Award was presented at the 2019 annual conference of AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine to a research team led by Tiffany Rose, NP. At the conference, Ms. Rose, a nurse practitioner from...
