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AMDA Announces Involvement in Two NQF Measure Applications Partnership Workgroups

March 27, 2013
Press Release
Quality, Measures, Transitions of Care
Columbia, MD — AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA) is proud to announce involvement in two National Quality Forum (NQF) Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) Workgroups. MAP provides suggestions and input to the U.S. Department of...

AMDA Releases Second Round of Potentially Unnecessary Medical Tests, Procedures a s Part of the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely ® Campaig

March 20, 2015
Press Release
Nutrition, Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Dementia, Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Diabetes, End-of-Life, Infections, C. difficile, Medication, Antipsychotics, Insulin, Quality, Transitions of Care, Urinary Incontinence
Louisville, KY – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) has partnered with the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely® campaign to encourage discussions among physicians, patients, and other health care stakeholders about...

AMDA Foundation Announces 2015 QI Award Winners

April 14, 2015
Press Release
Care Settings/Types, Assisted Living, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Quality, Improvement, Rehabilitation, Transitions of Care
Columbia, MD - The AMDA Foundation presented its 2015 Quality Improvement Awards during the AMDA—The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Annual Conference 2015, held in Louisville, KY, March 19-22. Foundation Board Chair Paul Katz, MD...

AMDA Applauds Congress on Passing of SGR Repeal

April 15, 2015
Press Release
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicaid, Medicare, Payment, Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), Practice Management, Meaningful Use, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Quality, Measures, Transitions of Care
Columbia, MD – The bill known as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 , which includes the repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR), was passed by the Senate late Tuesday night, after being passed by the House of...

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.