Policy Snapshot
March 15, 2024
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Policy Snapshot
March 15, 2024
Skilled Nursing Facilities: Billing Medicare for Respiratory Vaccines
Medicare pays for vaccines administered during a patient’s stay in a nursing home. Vaccine payment depends on the type of vaccine and whether the patient is using their Skilled Nursing Facility Part A benefit. Learn how to bill for a number of vaccines
JAMDA
March 14, 2024
Improving Sleep Using Mentored Behavioral and Environmental Restructuring (SLUMBER)
To evaluate the impact of a mentoring program to encourage staff-delivered sleep-promoting strategies on sleep, function, depression, and anxiety among skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents.
JAMDA
March 14, 2024
Implementation Outcomes for the SLUMBER Sleep Improvement Program in Long-Term Care
To describe the implementation of a mentored staff-delivered sleep program in nursing facilities.
News Release
March 10, 2024
Society Honors Visionary Leaders--Nelson, Lind, Bonner, and Crecelius receive awards
The Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine has announced the recipients of its leadership and excellence awards for 2024 in partnership with the PALTC24 Annual Conference hosted by AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Dallas Nelson, MD, FACP, CMD, is the 202...
Podcast
March 10, 2024
Caring On-The-Go | March 2024
JAMDA
March 8, 2024
Evaluating the Association between the Implementation of the PoET (Prevention of Error-Based Transfers) Southwest Spread Project and Palliative Care Provision: A Quasi-Experimental Matched Cohort Study Using Population-Level Health Administrative Data
The PoET (Prevention of Error-based Transfers) project seeks to align long-term care (LTC) home informed consent practices to existing legislation, thereby reducing consent-related error-based transfers to acute care. We sought to measure changes in resident-level palliative care provision after participat...
JAMDA
March 7, 2024
High-Intensity Care for Nursing Home Residents with Severe Dementia Hospitalized at the End of Life: A Mixed Methods Study
For nursing home residents with severe dementia, high-intensity medical treatment offers little possibility of benefit but has the potential to cause significant distress. Nevertheless, mechanical ventilation and intensive care unit (ICU) transfers have increased in this population. We sought to understand...
JAMDA
March 6, 2024
Continuous Glucose Monitoring-Guided Insulin Administration in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Randomized Clinical Trial
To evaluate the efficacy of real-time continuous glucose monitoring (rt-CGM) in adjusting insulin therapy in long-term care facilities (LTCF).
JAMDA
March 4, 2024
Association between Age at Diagnosis of Hyperlipidemia and Subsequent Risk of Dementia
The relationship between age at diagnosis of hyperlipidemia and dementia remains unclear. We examined whether younger age at diagnosis of hyperlipidemia is associated with higher risk of subsequent dementia.
