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June 13, 2022

Special Guests: Kenneth Scheppke, MD, FAEMS, and Kimberly R. Smoak, MSH, QIDP

Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD

Recorded: March 30, 2022

Join special guests, Kenneth Scheppke, MD, FAEMS, and Kimberly R. Smoak, MSH, QIDP, and our host Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, for this episode of FMDA's Journal Club, Meeting the Current Clinical Challenges in PALTC.

This session focused on the following Learning Objectives:

  1. Review President Biden’s nursing home policy, as laid out in the State of the Union, and varied responses from AMDA and other national organizations.
  2. Describe the staffing crisis across our PALTC continuum and the long-lasting impact to our PALTC infrastructure.
  3. Deliberate over current state of the state for the COVID pandemic and the preparedness required for an endemic response in PALTC.
  4. Discuss practical implications for second boosters and our current SNF vaccine policies as they stand today.