Interdisciplinary care of older adults across all care settings has been shown to have a positive impact on care outcomes, such as decreasing pneumonia and improving end-of-life care.1-5 The studies in long-term care, however, have generally been...
Medication optimization is a hot topic in post-acute and long-term care and a focus of AMDA’s very popular Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) initiative. Now practitioners have yet another opportunity to address their deprescribing challenges with a new...
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations process is underway. Encourage your senators to support transparency for nursing home medical directors. Your senators can join by signing on to a letter to Appropriations Subcommittee members encouraging...
The next Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)/Long Term Care (LTC) Open Door Forum is scheduled for Thursday, April 13, 2023, 2:00–3:00 PM ET. See the agenda here . To participate in this conference...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rescinded memorandum QSO-20-31-ALL , the Enhanced Enforcement for Infection Control Deficiencies, and replaced it with memorandum QSO-23-10-NH , revised guidance for Strengthened Enhanced...
Our current health care system is failing to meet the needs of our population, particularly with regard to chronic illness and post-acute and long-term care (PA-LTC). Despite widespread dissatisfaction, major reforms are not in sight.
