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What’s a CMD?

Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Practitioners, 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...

JAMDA Study IDs Readmission Spike

January 19, 2016
AMDA in the News
Long-Term Living
Care Settings/Types, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Transitions of Care
Hospital discharges to post-acute care (PAC) facilities have spiked. So have hospital readmissions from PACs, or skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). And that could be deadly, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Post-Acute and Long...

In Race for Medicare Dollars, Nursing Home Care May Lag

April 14, 2015
AMDA in the News
New York Times
Long-Term Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare
Promises of “decadent” hot baths on demand, putting greens and gurgling waterfalls to calm the mind: These luxurious touches rarely conjure images of a stay in a nursing home.

Findings on Health Care Management Discussed by Investigators at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science

April 23, 2015
AMDA in the News
insurancenews.net
Long-Term Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Dementia
Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine. According to news originating from Tokyo, Japan, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Expenditures on long-term care insurance (LTCI) in Japan have been increasing with the aging of the...

Nursing Homes Are Starting to Supplant Hospitals as Focus of Basic Health Care

April 24, 2015
AMDA in the News
New York Times
Anemia, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Medicaid, Dementia, Medication, Antibiotics/Antimicrobials, Transitions of Care
The notion that a hospital remains the safest place for old patients dies hard. Many families still believe their aging relatives belong in a hospital when they’re ailing. But 20-plus years of research have documented the risks of hospitalization...

Death Rates Higher in For-Profit Nursing Homes, Report Says

October 2, 2015
AMDA in the News
TheStar.com
Skilled Nursing Care
Rates of death and hospitalization are “significantly” higher in Ontario’s for-profit nursing homes than in non-profit ones, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association .

Physician Medical Directors

Resolution and Position Statements
Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Medicaid, Practitioners, Attending Physician, Medical Director
Physician
Resolution G95 Becomes Policy October 1995 AMDA resolves that the American Medical Association advocate for uniform state based requirements that both Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing facilities retain only licensed physicians as...

Influenza Vaccine Availability

Resolution and Position Statements
Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Immunization/Vaccination, Infection Prevention/Control, Influenza
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Resolution C02 Becomes Policy March 2002 AMDA resolves to strongly urge the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to work with vaccine manufacturers in order to develop a mechanism for...

Observation Bed & ER Observation Status and Medicare Three-day Inpatient Hospital Stay Requirement

Resolution and Position Statements
Skilled Nursing Care, Medicaid, Transitions of Care
Policy D08 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that both AMDA and AMA, as stated in policy since 1993 (AMDA HOD Resolutions L93 and C94), oppose the Medicare 3-day acute care hospitalization eligibility requirement for SNF admission. AND BE IT...

Reducing Legislative Requirement for Treatment of Pain in Long Term Care Facilities

Resolution and Position Statements
Skilled Nursing Care, Medication, Pain Management
Physician
Policy F-13 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine and its state affiliate chapters support and work with appropriate parties towards creating an exemption for physicians prescribing pain medication in...