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2022 Medical Director of the Year Lit the Way Through Difficult Times

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March 16, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join From the moment COVID-19 came into post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities, Swati Gaur, MD, MBA, CMD, stepped into action. She rallied her teams, worked shoulder to shoulder with her AMDA colleagues and...

Realities, Innovation, Best Practices: Caring Tackles Staffing with Special Issue

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March 2, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Staffing in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) has long been challenging, but the pandemic and rising wages in other industries competing for workers, as well as illness and burnout, have taken the crisis to new...

Podcast Addresses Challenges and Solutions for Combating Omicron Variant

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February 23, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Just as post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) practitioners and their facilities began to see a light at the end of the COVID tunnel, the Omicron variant hit. However, as Swati Gaur, MD, MBA, CMD, told Host Diane...

Ascension Requires All Medical Directors To Become CMDs

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February 17, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join St. Louis-based Ascension Living, a mission-driven senior care and living provider with 28 skilled nursing facility medical directors across 11 states and Washington, DC, now requires all community medical...

Go from Bystander to Upstander at PALTC22 Opening General Session

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February 10, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join PALTC22, AMDA’s Annual Conference, is all about learning, connecting, sharing, and engaging. But this year’s Opening General Session (set for Thursday, March 10) will offer attendees a powerful and unique...

JAMDA Special Issue on Reimagining Long-Term Care Presents Possibilities for Change

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February 1, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When COVID hit, it forced a hard look at long-term care. That there was a problem with nursing home quality, regulations, and financing wasn’t necessarily new, but the pandemic highlighted the industry’s...

New Hosts Take the Wheel on AMDA On-The-Go Podcasts

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January 27, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join With the start of 2022, AMDA’s popular podcast programs feature two new hosts. Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, is the new host of AMDA On-The-Go; Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, has taken the helm of the Caring On-...

Be Compassionate When Working with Families

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January 20, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “It’s easy to lose sleep about something that is going on with family members,” said Moderator Richard Juman, PsyD, at the beginning of Self-Compassion and Emotional Resilience for Working with Families. In this...

From Cirque de Soleil to AMDA’s Center Stage: Filkin Lecturer Explores the Connection Between Music and Empathy

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January 14, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join At a time when health-care professionals are facing unprecedented challenges, empathy is essential but sometimes hard to muster. François Beausoleil, a veteran Cirque de Soleil musician who teaches/coaches...

Webinar Tackles the Challenges of Staffing Levels: What Is Right for Your Facility?

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January 6, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join There has been a great deal of talk about staffing levels in nursing homes and other settings, as well as much confusion and controversy. If you ask 10 different people about this issue, you might get 10 different...