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A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO ADVANCE CARE PLANNING DISCUSSIONS

White Paper
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives
AMDA- THE SOCIETY FOR POST-ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE MEDICINE WHITE PAPER A17 SUBJECT: A Practitioner’s Guide to Advance Care Planning Discussions in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting INTRODUCED BY: Ethics subcommittee and Advance...

ACP Series, Webinar, and interview w/ Dr. Jaggard

Advance Care Planning
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
DR. JAGGARD DISCUSSES ADVANCE CARE PLANNING ADVANCE CARE PLANNING (ACP) SERIES A valuable tool in assisting patients and their families in navigating the decisions required for advance care planning in the long-term care, assisted living and other...

Advance Care Planning (ACP) Pocket Card (set of 5)

Practice Management Tools
Advance Care Planning, Practice Management
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
The Advance Care Planning (ACP) Pocket Card provides a quick reference to discussing advance care decisions with your patients. The professional is assisted in encouraging patients to consider the full range of issues informing the very personal...

Advance Care Planning (ACP) Series

Practice Management Tools
Advance Care Planning, Practice Management
Physician
Ease the Advance Care Planning Conversation Everything is easier with preparation — even difficult conversations. That’s why AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine assembled this comprehensive guide to discussing advance care...

End-of-Life Advice: More Than 500,000 Chat on Medicare’s Dime

August 14, 2017
AMDA in the News
USA Today
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Practitioners, Resident, Right’s
The 90-year-old woman in the San Diego-area nursing home was quite clear, said Dr. Karl Steinberg. She didn’t want aggressive measures to prolong her life. If her heart stopped, she didn’t want CPR. But when Steinberg, a palliative care physician,...

Do-Not-Hospitalize Orders Reduce Resident Transfers, Says New Study

May 17, 2017
AMDA in the News
Provider Magazine
Advance Care Planning, End-of-Life Care, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Dementia, Transitions of Care
A fresh look at how Do-Not-Hospitalize (DNH) orders affect the movement of skilled nursing care residents shows those residents with such directives experienced significantly fewer transfers to hospitals or emergency departments (EDs). Report...

Incomplete End-of-Life Forms Vex Physicians

October 14, 2016
AMDA in the News
Medscape
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Patient Centered
A study of elderly patients' end-of-life forms found that 69% had at least one section left blank, and 14% indicated the patient wanted comfort measures only, but also that they wanted be sent to the hospital, receive intravenous fluids, and/or...

Senior Living Team Can Help Clarify Older Adults' End-of-Life Wishes

October 4, 2016
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Patient Centered, Resident, Right’s
Physicians' Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments, or POLST, forms often are seen as a way to honor the end-of-life wishes of frail elderly individuals when they no longer can speak for themselves. A study published last week in the Journal of the...

Survey Reveals Barriers to End-of-Life, Advance Care Planning Discussions

April 14, 2016
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Advance Care Planning, End-of-Life Care, Assisted Living, Medicare, Patient Centered, Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Although almost all physicians who treat Medicare beneficiaries think end-of-life and advance care planning conversations are important, many of them report significant barriers to having these discussions with those for whom they care, and 46%...

WHOM DO WE SERVE? DESCRIBING THE TARGET POPULATION FOR POST-ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE, FOCUSING ON NURSING FACILITY SETTINGS, IN THE ERA OF POPULATION HEALTH

White Paper
Advance Care Planning, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practitioners, Attending Physician, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Physician Assistant (PA)
NP/PA, Physician
March 2016 Introduction Post-acute care is comprised of medical, rehabilitation and nursing services aiming to restore maximal medical and functional status of patients discharged from hospitals. Long-term care refers to the services and...