MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Empowering and nurturing nurses to be team leaders is key to creating a culture that attracts and builds strong clinical teams; and this can’t wait. As Katherine Evans, DNP, said during a recent AMDA On-The-Go...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “In long-term care facilities, 90% of residents have some hearing loss. This affects their health, quality of life, how they interact with staff, and much more,” says Kathryn Dowd, AuD. Yet, she notes, adequate...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join If you have an idea for a program session at AMDA’s PALTC23 Annual Conference—which is being held March 9-12 in Tampa, FL—Verna Sellers, MD, CMD, and her colleagues want to hear it by the July 19 deadline. “We want...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Allison Villegas, PA-C, is the first physician assistant (PA) on the AMDA Board, serving as a House of Delegates representative. Honored to have this distinction, she says, “I look forward to bringing a different...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Like other care settings, assisted living facilities (ALFs) have struggled mightily during the pandemic. Moving forward, there is much to learn from their challenges, their best practices and successes, and their...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “Being on the AMDA board has been the opportunity of a lifetime,” says new Society Secretary Leslie Eber, MD, CMD, who is an attending physician and medical director in Colorado. “It has given me the opportunity to...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When Michael Wasserman, MD, CMD, found out that he was the recipient of the 2022 William Dodd Founder’s Award for Distinguished Service, he felt the presence not only of Dr. Dodd but of his many colleagues. He says...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join What do your certified nursing assistants (CNAs) want you to know? This was the topic of a recent AMDA On-The-Go podcast. Guests Lori Porter, CEO and co-founder of the National Association of Health Care Assistants...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “It sounds lofty, but it’s doable if we start one step at a time,” says JoAnne Reifsnyder, PhD, MSN, MBA, FAAN, of a new AMDA effort aimed at developing action plans post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Put together innovative thinking, a team approach to care, and evidence-based recommendations, and you have the 2022 Choosing Wisely ® Champion. Monica Ott, MD, CMD, an Indiana-based medical director for Senior...
