MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When Howard Finger, DO, received the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Quality Improvement & Health Outcomes (QIHO) Award earlier this year, the COVID-19 pandemic was in the early stages...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Think of your donation to the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine like a snowball. It’s a solid donation that positively contributes to the future of PALTC medicine. Now consider that a...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Data shows that health care workers in long-term care (LTC) settings have the lowest vaccination rate of all care settings. This is of particular concern during the current pandemic, when the dual challenges of...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Every September, members of the AMDA leadership head to Washington, DC, for Hill Day. This year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they took their trip virtually. While they had to depend on conference calls and Zoom...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join There is a hierarchal structure that influences performance and expectations in post-acute care. Understanding this can facilitate better communication and outcomes. In an AMDA webinar on September 23, Pam Reese,...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “We are all leaders, whether we realize it or not. I’m excited to advance this role for all of us moving forward,” says Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, talking about the Society’s inaugural Leadership, Ethics &...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “We are all leaders, whether we realize it or not. I’m excited to advance this role for all of us moving forward,” says Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, talking about the Society’s inaugural Leadership, Ethics &...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “I have people coming in every day asking about different alternative medicines and other things, many of which I’ve never heard of,” says Mitsuo Tomita, MD. Between the internet and TV, consumers are bombarded...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Thrombosis is among the many issues that have come to the forefront during the COVID pandemic. AMDA and its Clinical Issues Subcommittee addressed it quickly through its guidance, Anticoagulation of Patients with...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Care planning has taken on new significance during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the recipient of the AMDA Foundation’s 2020 Quality Improvement (QI) Award offered some insights on maximizing the value of those...
