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Throughout her 30-year medical career, Sandra Garretson, MD, CMD, has been involved in countless training and education activities and values the support she gets from AMDA. “I like being able to access the AMDA webinar resources and the handouts...
Rebecca King-Tucker, MD, CMD, sleeps well at night…partly thanks to AMDA. “Practitioners can’t be as independent as we used to be. We have to band together to have a voice. I am confident that AMDA is advocating for me and the future of post-acute-...
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...
October 31, 2013
Columbia, MD — After two years of work, AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) has finalized competencies to provide attending physicians practicing in post-acute/long-term care (PALTC) with an evidence-based framework for the unique set...
January 6, 2014
Columbia, MD — AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine is proud to announce the release of the latest in our long-term care information series, Oral Health in the Long Term Care Setting Tool Kit , along with a free compendium of resources. Poor...
March 5, 2014
At AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine’s (AMDA) recent annual conference, the House of Delegates voted to change the organization’s name to AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. The House of Delegates also voted to...
March 13, 2014
Columbia, MD - AMDA—The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is pleased that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has decided not to finalize its proposed rule to eliminate protected class status for several...
May 13, 2014
Columbia, MD – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) is proud to have several products, programs, and resources featured in the Eldercare Workforce Alliance’s (EWA) Older Americans Month Toolkit . EWA created the kit...
July 28, 2014
Gaithersburg, MD - The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Christopher E. Laxton, CAE, Executive Director of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) in Columbia, MD, to...
October 6, 2014
Columbia, MD - AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine will receive $1,624,269 in civil money penalty (CMP) funds over a three-year period to improve the quality of care and quality of life for younger adults receiving post-...