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Nursing Home Medical Directors Should Be Named Publicly, Bill Urges

September 21, 2022
AMDA in the News
Nursing Home Medical Directors...
Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
It's just a two-page, barely 200-word bill. But if passed as the authors intend, it would require all 15,000 Medicare-approved nursing homes in the nation to publicly report the name of their medical director.

Nursing homes would report medical director data to CMS under new bill

September 16, 2022
AMDA in the News
Nursing homes would report medical director data to CMS under new bill
Medical Staff Oversight, Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
The House on Thursday introduced a bipartisan bill that would require nursing homes to report their medical directors’ credentials and background to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Society To Offer American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification

December 4, 2017
Press Release
Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is pleased to announce its eligibility to provide American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification credits. The Society’s educational programs that will offer ABIM...

Studies Look at Connections Between Physician Time and Quality Care

November 29, 2017
Press Release
Attending Physician, Medical Director, Resident
Patients are coming to nursing homes (NHs) today ‘sicker and sooner’ than ever before. Hospitals are under growing pressure to shorten lengths of stay, and NHs are seeing patients with more comorbid conditions, more serious illnesses, and greater...

In West Orange: Daughter Of Israel’s Medical Director Snags Award

May 4, 2017
AMDA in the News
West Orange Patch
Infections, Infection Prevention/Control, Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team, Medical Director, Wounds
Joshua Schor, medical director at Daughters of Israel in West Orange, was named the 2017 Medical Director of the Year by the AMDA (The Society of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine). He was presented with the award during the Society’s annual...

AMDA expands membership to practitioners

March 15, 2017
AMDA in the News
i Advance Senior Care
Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Stewardship, Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team, Medical Director, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Pharmacist, Physician Assistant (PA)
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) announced the formation of a Practice Management Section, a national forum for practitioner-led post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) population management, today at its 40th annual...

AMDA Creates Practice Management Section

March 15, 2017
Press Release
Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team, Medical Director, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Pharmacist
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine announced the formation of a Practice Management Section, a national forum for practitioner-led post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) population management, today at its 40th Annual...

Medical and Nurses' Groups Join Forces to Boost Long-Term Care

November 25, 2016
AMDA in the News
Associations Now
Long-Term Care, Practitioners, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Medical Director, Nurse Practitioner (NP)
Two related associations have formed an alliance to offer education and resources to healthcare professionals working in post-acute and long-term care settings. Members of AMDA—The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine include medical...

AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine & GAPNA Form Partnership to Provide Quality Health Care

November 15, 2016
Press Release
Practitioners, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team, Medical Director, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Quality
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and GAPNA (the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association) have formed a partnership aimed at continuing to improve the quality of care provided to geriatric, and post-acute and...

Medina-Walpole Chosen to Lead Division of Geriatrics and Aging

October 25, 2016
AMDA in the News
University of Rochester Medical Center Newsroom
Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
Esteemed geriatrics clinician, mentor and educator Annette (Annie) Medina-Walpole, M.D., has been named chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Aging at the University of Rochester Medical Center. A professor in the Department of Medicine, Medina-...