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Position On Staffing Standards In Long Term Care

August 10, 2022

This updates HOD Resolution of 2000 and AMDA Staffing Statement of 2002

Abbreviations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Allied Health Professionals, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Physician’s Assistant (PA), Physician

Summary

The primary focus of this statement is to:

Interdisciplinary Discharge Team Lowers Readmissions, May Reduce Mortality Following Hip Fracture

April 12, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 7, 2022
Contact: Ellen Mullally
emullally@paltc.org/410-992-3124

Columbia, MD – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine applauds the many recommendations included in yesterday’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report, The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families and Staff.

Coalition launches to improve access...

December 15, 2022
AMDA in the News
Coalition launches to improve access...
A coalition of experts launched a new initiative Wednesday with the goal of getting 43 recommendations for medical and mental healthcare in assisted living put into practice...

A light in the darkness: Swati Gaur, MD, medical director

November 11, 2022
AMDA in the News
A light in the darkness: Swati Gaur, MD, medical director
COVID-19
The rare number of New Horizons residents in northwest Georgia who find themselves in the COVID-19 ward now, beset with mild symptoms and upset over the inconvenience of being moved from their rooms after testing positive, tend to grouse to their...

43 recommendations help fill gap in medical and mental healthcare guidance for assisted living, experts say

October 7, 2022
AMDA in the News
43 recommendations help fill gap in medical...
Assisted Living, Long-Term Care
Forty-three recommendations stemming from a new study represent “an initial step” to filling a gap in guidance regarding medical and mental healthcare in assisted living, according to the study’s authors, who said that such guidance “has been long-...

Nursing Home Medical Directors Should Be Named Publicly, Bill Urges

September 21, 2022
AMDA in the News
Nursing Home Medical Directors...
Certified Medical Director, Medical Director
It's just a two-page, barely 200-word bill. But if passed as the authors intend, it would require all 15,000 Medicare-approved nursing homes in the nation to publicly report the name of their medical director.