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With QIHO Awards, Out-of-the-Box Thinking Takes Center Stage

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December 11, 2019

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Look around. Innovation is everywhere. Each year, the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine recognizes cutting-edge quality improvement projects that are touching lives and making a positive difference for residents and staff alike. The Quality Improvement and...

Webinar Will Make Treating Sleep Disorders a Dream

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December 5, 2019

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With sleep disorders common in older adults, including up to two-thirds of post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) residents, managing these issues can keep practitioners up at night. The good news, says Christopher Kitamura, MD, FRCPC, staff psychiatrist at Baycrest...

Award Recipient Embraced Quality Improvement Opportunity

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November 21, 2019

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When opportunity knocked, Marissa Galicia-Castillo, MD, answered; the result was an innovative program to improve the identification and management of congestive heart failure (CHF) at her facility. “I’ve been an AMDA member for quite a while. We were seeing more cases...

Taking the Mystery Out of Billing and Coding

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November 12, 2019

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If you’ve tried to read the CPT coding manual to brush up on your knowledge of billing and coding but find that you’re distracted or dozing off, you’re not alone. Fortunately, the speakers at a Society webinar set for November 20 have done this tedious but important work for you. “Many...

Dipping or Diving: Trauma-Informed Care Expert Has the Answers

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November 7, 2019

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Phase 3 of the revised Medicare and Medicaid requirements of participation for long-term care requires skilled nursing homes (SNFs) to provide “trauma-informed care” (TIC). Whether facilities and practitioners are dipping their toes in this or diving in head-first,...

Webinar Addresses the Multiple Challenges of Multimorbidity

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October 29, 2019

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Caring for multimorbid patients comes with significant challenges and requires practitioners to successfully balance many issues and considerations at once. In a new Society webinar, Multimorbidity in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC), set for November 6, Anthony...

Thanks to Foundation Partnership, We Know More about Influenza Vaccines in PALTC

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October 17, 2019

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It’s nearly flu season, and everyone in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) is preparing to keep their residents and staff safe and healthy. They are on high alert for good reason. Statistics from last year’s flu season alone documented 80,000 deaths...

Be a Great Leader and Inspire Others

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October 10, 2019

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When practitioners look in the mirror, a growing number see themselves as agents of positive change; but they may not self-identify as leaders. “Leaders arise in all kinds of circumstances, and people can harness things in themselves to be leaders,” says Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD. On...

Podcast Bites into the Realities and Challenges of Oral Health in Older Adults

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October 3, 2019

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“I fear that this focus on older adult oral health may come as a surprise to medical providers and even geriatricians in the trenches of care,” said Wayne Saltsman, MD, PhD, CMD, at the start of the September 16 AMDA On-The-Go podcast. He then led a conversation...

Dodd Award Recipient Recalls Society’s Founder

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September 26, 2019

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When David Smith, MD, CMD, received the 2019 William Dodd Founder’s Award at the Society’s annual conference in Atlanta, GA, earlier this year, it was a “career-capping event.” Afterwards, Society members—newcomers and veterans alike—approached him with congratulations....