AMDA In The News
April 26, 2024
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AMDA In The News
April 25, 2024
Senate bill counts hospital ‘observation’ days toward time needed for skilled nursing coverage
AMDA In The News
April 18, 2024
How new long-term care models and tech can cut into billions spent on rehospitalizations
Nursing homes are on the frontier of new care models and technology solutions that have the potential to save billions of dollars in healthcare costs. That was the consensus from experts who also issued cautions at a PALTC24 annual conference session hosted recently by AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and...
AMDA In The News
April 10, 2024
‘Ladders and lattices’ provide career opportunities for CNAs
Providers would be wise to help certified nursing assistants advance in their careers, according to an article in Caring for the Ages, a publication of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
AMDA In The News
April 3, 2024
4 priorities for post-acute facilities, per 1 association president
Training, retaining and recruiting staff should be the top priority for post-acute facilities, Rajeev Kumar MD, president of AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, told Becker's.
AMDA In The News
February 14, 2024
Moving the needle in nursing home vaccination rates
On February 29, 2020, the first Coronavirus nursing home outbreak was reported by the media. Experts in geriatric and long-term care medicine immediately understood the dangers to nursing home residents. As the pandemic progressed, we lost many residents in our communities. It became eminently clear that o...
AMDA In The News
November 21, 2023
AMDA ‘thrilled’ by medical directors’ inclusion in new CMS transparency rule
McKnights Long-Term Care News Nursing homes will have to publicly disclose information about their medical directors, along with other managing employees, under a new transparency rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
AMDA In The News
August 10, 2023
AMDA leadership weighs in on DEA’s telehealth medicine rules debate
AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is pleased that the federal government is taking more seriously the need to relax restrictions on prescribing medication via telehealth, a spokeswoman said.
AMDA In The News
July 7, 2023
A light in the darkness: Swati Gaur, MD, medical director
AMDA In The News
July 7, 2023