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Dr. Brian Richards

Long-Term Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Dementia, Mental Health, Therapist, Younger Adult
Allied Health Professional
Brian Richards, PsyD, completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins and realized that the research track wasn’t for him. He found it much more compelling and meaningful to work directly with patients in a clinical capacity. Dr. Richards says...

Guide to Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Coding, Reimbursement, and Documentation

Practice Management Tools
Advance Care Planning, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Practice Management
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Extensively updated to reflect major E/M coding changes for 2023, The Guide to Post-Acute and Long Term Care Coding, Reimbursement, and Documentation, is a popular and must-have publication that contains important documentation and medical decision...

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...

Nonpharmacologic Interventions Win QI Award

Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Dementia, Medication, Antipsychotics
A passion for quality improvement, a creative mind, and an innovative idea. These are the key ingredients in an AMDA Foundation Quality Improvement (QI) award winner. Just ask Marian McNamara, RN, MSN, 2014 award recipient for "Reduction of...

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,...

Physician Has Key Education Partner

Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Skilled Nursing Care
Physician
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...

3 Tools to Reduce Hospitalizations

December 1, 2015
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Advance Care Planning, Assisted Living, Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, Transitions of Care
AMDA Board member Kevin O'Neil, MD, CMD, comments on three tools that have shown success in improving the quality of care provided to skilled nursing residents that also work well for residents of assisted living communities.

Falling for hip protectors

December 15, 2015
AMDA in the News
Long-Term Living
Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing Care, Falls
The use of hip protectors was recently named among key fracture prevention strategies in new guidelines for long-term care published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal , mirroring recommendations from AMDA—The Society for Post-Acute and...