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Why Home Care Can’t Compare to Skilled Nursing Facilities

June 27, 2017
AMDA in the News
Skilled Nursing News
Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care
Most newly admitted nursing home residents could not be safely and cost-effectively diverted to home- and community-based services (HCBS) because many of them have health issues, such as dementia and stroke, that require high levels of care,...

Study: Most Nursing Home Residents’ Care Needs Can’t Be Managed Cost Effectively Elsewhere

June 27, 2017
Press Release
Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Dementia
Most individuals admitted to nursing homes have high levels of care needs—because of conditions such as dementia and stroke—that cannot be met cost-effectively elsewhere, such as in the community. According to a Canadian study in the July issue of...

Bellamy Carter Brook, D.O., named certified medical director

February 7, 2017
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Care Settings/Types, Certified Medical Director
Bellamy Carter Brook, DO, medical director at Peconic Landing, a continuing care retirement / life plan community in Greenport, NY, has been named a certified medical director by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.

Use of Telemedicine Grows in Long-Term Care Settings

September 6, 2016
AMDA in the News
Health Data Management
Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care
Steven Handler, MD, PhD, CMD, talks about University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's telehealth initiative.

Diversity in Age, Ethnicity of Post-Acute Residents Increasing, Research Finds

June 29, 2016
AMDA in the News
McKnight's
Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Resident
The long-term care population has grown more diverse in age and ethnicity over recent decades, according to new research published in JAMDA: The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.

IMPROVING CARE TRANSITIONS FROM THE NURSING FACILITY TO A COMMUNITY-BASED SETTING

White Paper
Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
March 2009 I. Introduction Issues related to transitioning patients across sites of care increasingly have been in the national spotlight. There is evidence that poor transitions may result in adverse outcomes such as an avoidable re-...

IMPROVING CARE TRANSITIONS BETWEEN THE NURSING FACILITY AND THE ACUTE-CARE HOSPITAL SETTINGS

White Paper
Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
March 2010 I. Introduction The purpose of this white paper is to recognize and emphasize the importance of efficient patient-centered processes for transferring patients from the acute-care hospital (ACH) to skilled nursing facility/...

Access to High Quality End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Care Planning, Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, End-of-Life
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
American Geriatrics Society American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine American Medical Directors Association National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Background At least one in four Americans dies in a nursing home, and...

Role of the Attending Physician in the Nursing Home

Resolution and Position Statements
Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, Attending Physician
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Introduction The American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) was founded on the premise that physician involvement in long term care is essential to the delivery of quality long term care. Attending physicians should lead the clinical...

Growing Up with Elders Inspired This PA’s Passion

Care Settings/Types, Practitioners, Quality
NP/PA
Growing up in a South Florida community with no adults under age 50, Kathy Kemle, MS, PA-C, thought of older people as friends and peers. “I was incredibly spoiled by them,” she recalls. When she was in high school, she started working as an aide in...