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Know-It-All™ When You’re Called Diagnosing System

Transitions of Care
Change of Condition, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team, Medical Director, Non-Physician Practitioners, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Physician Assistant (PA), Transitions of Care
Physician
A one-of-a-kind, 200-plus page guide on change of conditions for attending practitioners. Content is organized alphabetically by condition and includes the specific data they should be receiving from the nurse, suggested geriatric diagnoses related...

Know-it-All™ Before You Call Data Collection System in the PALTC & Assisted Living Setting

Transitions of Care
Change of Condition, Attending Physician, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team, Medical Director, Non-Physician Practitioners, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Physician Assistant (PA), Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
A series of data collection cards intended to help nursing staff physically evaluate patients and collect relevant medical history and related medical record data before notifying a practitioner about a resident’s change in condition. This allows...

Starting & Maintaining a Long-Term Care Ethics Committee Tool Kit

Practice Management Tools
Ethics, Practice Management, Medical Director
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
The AMDA Tool Kit for Starting & Maintaining a Long-Term Care Ethics Committee provides a comprehensive guide to medical directors and others working in post-acute and long-term care who encounter ethical issues that need attention. The tool kit...

AMDA Model Medical Director Agreement and Supplemental Materials: Medical Director of a Nursing Facility

Practice Management Tools
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), F-Tags, Practice Management, Medical Director
Physician
This package serves as a guide for agreements for medical director services in nursing facilities. It includes a model agreement between the medical director and the nursing facility; performance requirements and the roles and responsibilities of a...

AMDA President-Elect: Ask if Your Facility Has a Certified Medical Director

Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
Patients & Families
AMDA Board of Directors President 2016-2017 Susan M. Levy, MD, CMD, AGSF, wants patients and their families to start asking their nursing homes and other facilities if their medical director is an AMDA Certified Medical Director (CMD). “It’s also...

Pharmacy President Provides Education

Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Practitioners, Medical Director, Pharmacist, Sleep Disorders
Allied Health Professional
Nicole Brandt, PharmD, CGP, knows how effective the interdisciplinary team can be in addressing clinical issues such as sleep problems. That is why she jumped at the opportunity to co-present in last year’s (with AMDA Past President Eric Tangalos,...

The Next Generation of PALTC Providers

Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Medical Director
Patients & Families, Physician
The Futures Class of 2016 was a melting pot of young and mid-career practitioners, physicians, and advanced nurse practitioners. This year’s program hosted 69 participants from across the country and from different sizes and types of programs and...

AMDA Honors Top Physicians During LTC Medicine—2014

March 7, 2014
Press Release
Practitioners, Medical Director
Columbia, MD – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and the AMDA Foundation announced top award winners during AMDA Long Term Care Medicine – 2014, the organization’s annual conference held in Nashville, TN, last week...

AMDA Certification Program Updates Name, Mission

January 9, 2015
Press Release
Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Practitioners, Certified Medical Director, Medical Director, Quality
Columbia, MD - The American Medical Directors Certification Program (AMDCP) is now the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM). The newly renamed Board remains an affiliate organization of AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute...

AMDA Honors Top Physicians During 2015 Annual Conference

April 14, 2015
Press Release
Care Settings/Types, Hospice, Infections, Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Stewardship, C. difficile, Practitioners, Medical Director, Quality, Improvement
Columbia, MD – AMDA —The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and the AMDA Foundation announced its top award winners during AMDA’s 2015 Annual Conference held in Louisville, KY, last month. The 2015 Medical Director of the Year (MDOY...