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Flu Shot Mandates for Nursing Home Staff Urged as Covid Persists

August 25, 2020
AMDA in the News
Bloomberg Law
COVID-19
The potentially deadly confluence of a raging Covid-19 pandemic and the upcoming flu season is prompting growing calls for states to require influenza vaccinations for all nursing home health-care personnel. The nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes...

Pandemic Shows What PALTC Leaders Have Long Known: Telemedicine Improves Access to Care

August 19, 2020
Press Release
AMDA leaders have long advocated for the widespread use of telemedicine in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC). In 2019, for example, they met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to advocate for regulations and reimbursement to extend the use of...

Music and Memory Program Means Fewer Meds, Better Behaviors

August 13, 2020
Press Release
Researchers from the University of California, Davis documented in the August issue of JAMDA the impact of Music and Memory SM (M&M), a non-pharmacological intervention, on nursing home residents with dementia. The Impact of Music and Memory on...

Shortages threaten Trump’s plan for rapid coronavirus tests

August 9, 2020
AMDA in the News
Politico
COVID-19
The Trump administration is gambling that a new generation of fast, cheap coronavirus tests can bring the U.S. outbreak under control. The challenge now is getting enough of these tests to pursue that strategy. The rapid antigen tests, which hunt...

New York Providers Offer COVID-19 Lessons on Resident Care

August 1, 2020
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
COVID-19
​A recent report in JAMDA offers new expert consensus recommendations for managing COVID-19 in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) with a focus on addressing screening of residents and staff, management of COVID-19 positive and presumed positive cases...

Error Rates on Rapid Covid-19 Tests Put Nursing Homes on Edge

July 27, 2020
AMDA in the News
Bloomberg Law
COVID-19
The new rapid Covid-19 antigen tests being sent to thousands of U.S. nursing homes in high-infection areas have a troubling flaw: They provide false negative results for about 15% of infected people. As nursing home infections climb once again due...

Expert Guidance on Managing COVID-19 in Skilled Nursing Facilities Released

July 23, 2020
Press Release
COVID-19
An article in the July issue of JAMDA details new expert consensus recommendations for managing COVID-19 in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Specifically, the document addresses screening of residents and staff, management of COVID-19 positive and...

Assisted living should be included in solution to COVID-19 crisis in long-term care

July 21, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
COVID-19
For all of its tragic outcomes, COVID-19 “presents an opportunity to do things differently and looking more systematically at large-scale solutions to care for older adults,” Christopher Laxton, executive director of AMDA – The Society for Post-...

How to solve the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care? Reform the system for one, AMDA advises

July 20, 2020
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
COVID-19
To improve the coronavirus problem in nursing homes, federal policy must be proactive, not reactive, and supportive, not punitive. So say managing physicians in nursing facilities. In “Solving the COVID-19 Crisis in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care,” a...

AMDA Formally Backs Adoption of National POLST Form

July 17, 2020
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine - AMDA - and National POLST said AMDA has become the first national organization to formally support the adoption of a national POLST (Physican Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) form. POLST...