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AMDA Releases COVID-19 Vaccine Education Toolkit

December 8, 2020
Press Release
COVID-19
Columbia, MD – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine has released a COVID-19 vaccine education toolkit to answer the questions PALTC staff, patients, residents, and family members have about the vaccines. The Centers...

AMDA to feds: Delay antibody treatment in nursing homes, engage LTC medical directors

November 9, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
Long-term care clinicians have asked the federal government to delay allocating monoclonal antibody therapy to nursing homes until further study — and to collaborate with facility medical directors when they do. Antibodies help the body mount an...

New Medicare coverage for COVID-19 antibody treatment can be ‘really helpful’ for nursing homes

November 12, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
The federal government’s decision to allow Medicare coverage of monoclonal antibody therapy for COVID-19 treatments could be extremely helpful for nursing homes care for symptomatic, positive residents, according to a top expert. The Centers for...

The Numbers of Asymptomatic LTC Residents with COVID Suggest Urgency for Universal Testing

October 21, 2020
Press Release
COVID-19
From the start, COVID-19 presented many challenges for long-term care (LTC) facilities, partly because there were so many unknowns about the virus. Even as more has been learned, limited information still exists on the symptoms/signs and clinical...

Provider group ‘disappointed’ in CMS’ response following release of nursing home commission report

September 21, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service’s response to a highly anticipated report by the Coronavirus Commission on Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes has been disappointing for one long-term care provider advocacy group . The 186-page...

Flu Shot Mandates for Nursing Home Staff Urged as Covid Persists

August 25, 2020
AMDA in the News
Bloomberg Law
COVID-19
The potentially deadly confluence of a raging Covid-19 pandemic and the upcoming flu season is prompting growing calls for states to require influenza vaccinations for all nursing home health-care personnel. The nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes...

CMS Rule Requires Nursing Home Staff to be Tested for COVID-19

August 26, 2020
AMDA in the News
Medpage Today
COVID-19
WASHINGTON -- An interim final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that requires all Medicare-certified nursing homes test their staff for COVID-19 is drawing mixed reviews from the homes. "The pandemic has already cost...

Shortages threaten Trump’s plan for rapid coronavirus tests

August 9, 2020
AMDA in the News
Politico
COVID-19
The Trump administration is gambling that a new generation of fast, cheap coronavirus tests can bring the U.S. outbreak under control. The challenge now is getting enough of these tests to pursue that strategy. The rapid antigen tests, which hunt...

New York Providers Offer COVID-19 Lessons on Resident Care

August 1, 2020
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
COVID-19
​A recent report in JAMDA offers new expert consensus recommendations for managing COVID-19 in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) with a focus on addressing screening of residents and staff, management of COVID-19 positive and presumed positive cases...

Error Rates on Rapid Covid-19 Tests Put Nursing Homes on Edge

July 27, 2020
AMDA in the News
Bloomberg Law
COVID-19
The new rapid Covid-19 antigen tests being sent to thousands of U.S. nursing homes in high-infection areas have a troubling flaw: They provide false negative results for about 15% of infected people. As nursing home infections climb once again due...