Caring for the Ages
May 4, 2026
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Policy Snapshot
May 4, 2026
Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Reform MIPS Physician Payment
On April 30, 2026, Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, MD (R-IA) and Herb Conaway, MD (D-NJ) introduced the Medicare Physician Data-driven Performance Payment System Act of 2026 (H.R. 8622), a bipartisan bill that would replace the existing Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) with a new framework calle...
Caring for the Ages
May 4, 2026
Frailty, Function, and Failing Hearts: My Journey in Optimizing Heart Failure in the Nursing Home
Spotlight
May 4, 2026
Medical Director of the Year Believes in Cultivating an Interest in PALTC Medicine
Iris Boettcher, MD, CMD, FPALTC, has been a member of PALTmed since 1989 (back when it was known as AMDA) and has attended many of the organization’s annual conferences over the years. One of her favorite events has always been the general session where the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PAL...
Caring for the Ages
May 4, 2026
Age-Friendly Heart Failure Care in the Nursing Home: Applying the 4Ms Framework to Guide Clinical Decision-Making
Caring for the Ages
May 4, 2026
Tramadol Reconsidered: Limited Benefit, Real Risk, and a Narrowing Role in Older Adults
JAMDA
April 30, 2026
Leveraging Pharmacists Using RE-AIM Framework to Implement Age-Friendly Nursing Home Care
The purpose of this article is to describe the approach taken to leverage pharmacists to implement the Age-Friendly 4Ms (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) using the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) framework.
JAMDA
April 29, 2026
Using Natural Language Processing to Improve Fall Documentation in VA Nursing Home Residents
Falls can be deadly for older adults, making accurate documentation essential for prevention and quality improvement. The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is used in nursing homes to document falls; however, it fails to capture fall dates and has been critiqued for underreporting and misclassification. We developed ...
JAMDA
April 29, 2026
Implementation of a Systematic Patient Mobility Program Across 5 Hospitals
The objective of this paper was to evaluate the implementation feasibility of the Johns Hopkins Activity and Mobility Promotion (JH-AMP) framework across geographically diverse hospitals and to examine the association between daily mobility goal achievement and discharge home.
Policy Snapshot
April 27, 2026
