MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Just when you thought there was nothing new or exciting to learn about COVID-19, along comes an AMDA On-The-Go podcast on Boosters, Vaccines...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) gets a hold on people, it doesn’t let go. Just ask Danny Felty, MD, FAAFP, CMD, a new state presidents council representative on the AMDA Board of Directors. He was a...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join AMDA’s Futures Program has been enlightening, engaging, educating, inspiring, and—most importantly—introducing residents, fellows, and participants from various disciplines to post-acute and long-term care (PALTC)...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join AMDA’s Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) have long been an important resource for practitioners and their teams in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC). Now the Clinical Practice Steering Committee is focusing...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Workforce issues, the power of social relationships, controversial legal decisions, and communicating about prognoses are all highly relevant and thought-provoking topics, and they were the focus of a lively...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join As diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues made headlines across the country in 2020, the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine was genuinely concerned. “We wondered how we could make a positive...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Peter Jaggard, MD, CMD, medical director of Westminster Place-Presbyterian Homes in Evanston, IL, is truly a physician in the mold of Dr. James Pattee, the father of AMDA’s Core Curriculum in Medical Direction. Dr...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Empowering and nurturing nurses to be team leaders is key to creating a culture that attracts and builds strong clinical teams; and this can’t wait. As Katherine Evans, DNP, said during a recent AMDA On-The-Go...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “In long-term care facilities, 90% of residents have some hearing loss. This affects their health, quality of life, how they interact with staff, and much more,” says Kathryn Dowd, AuD. Yet, she notes, adequate...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join If you have an idea for a program session at AMDA’s PALTC23 Annual Conference—which is being held March 9-12 in Tampa, FL—Verna Sellers, MD, CMD, and her colleagues want to hear it by the July 19 deadline. “We want...
