Astudy in Hong Kong that documented a significantly lower risk of aspiration pneumonia in patients with advanced dementia and feeding problems who were placed on careful hand-feeding rather than nasogastric tube feeding has won the JAMDA 2023 Morley...
Two of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s prestigious annual awards are named after leaders and visionaries who helped shape post-acute and long-term care (PALTC), medical direction, and the Society. They were innovators...
This past fall, AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine launched a newly revised “3-in-1” clinical practice guideline (CPG): Delirium, Depression and Dementia in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting ( https://bit.ly/3DCPG...
It was around 6:00 p.m., and I was on my way to leave the facility when I suddenly heard a new patient screaming. He was bellowing from his room asking for the nurse and pain medication. His transportation packet did not have his pain prescription,...
You’ve had a long day with five admissions, and you still have hours of documentation to finish before you can go home to your family. You are sitting at the nursing station, and Ms. Green’s daughter approaches you with a look on her face that you...
Medication optimization is a hot topic in post-acute and long-term care and a focus of AMDA’s very popular Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) initiative. Now practitioners have yet another opportunity to address their deprescribing challenges with a new...
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations process is underway. Encourage your senators to support transparency for nursing home medical directors. Your senators can join by signing on to a letter to Appropriations Subcommittee members encouraging...
The next Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)/Long Term Care (LTC) Open Door Forum is scheduled for Thursday, April 13, 2023, 2:00–3:00 PM ET. See the agenda here . To participate in this conference...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rescinded memorandum QSO-20-31-ALL , the Enhanced Enforcement for Infection Control Deficiencies, and replaced it with memorandum QSO-23-10-NH , revised guidance for Strengthened Enhanced...
Our current health care system is failing to meet the needs of our population, particularly with regard to chronic illness and post-acute and long-term care (PA-LTC). Despite widespread dissatisfaction, major reforms are not in sight.
