JAMDA
February 18, 2022
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JAMDA
October 26, 2020
Evaluating the Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown on Long-Term Care Residents’ Mental Health: A Data-Driven Approach in New Brunswick
Long-term care (LTC) residents, isolated because of the COVID-19 pandemic, are at increased risk for negative mental health outcomes. The purpose of our article is to demonstrate how the interRAI LTC facility (LTCF) assessment can inform clinical care and evaluate the effect of strategies to mitigate worse...
JAMDA
November 7, 2023
Breaking the Cycle: Using Serious Illness Communication to Optimize Care Transition Planning in Serious Illness
It is widely recognized that many older adults in their last year of life will cycle between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities—a phenomenon described as “rehabbing to death.” Several strategies to address this complex problem have been proposed, including developing and testing serious illness commu...
JAMDA
October 24, 2025
Vaccination Rates Among Long-Term Care Staff During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on long-term care facilities, particularly nursing homes and assisted living communities (ALCs), leading to high mortality rates among residents. Vaccination of residents and staff in long-term care mitigated virus spread. However, we know little about vaccine up...
JAMDA
January 2, 2022
Reimagining Nutrition Care and Mealtimes in Long-Term Care
Poor food and fluid intake and subsequent malnutrition and dehydration of residents are common, longstanding challenges in long-term care (LTC; eg, nursing homes, care homes, skilled nursing facilities). Institutional factors like inadequate nutrition care processes, food quality, eating assistance, and me...
News Release
November 17, 2023
New CMS Rules is a Victory for Medical Director Transparency
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a final rule calling for nursing homes to disclose specific ownership and managerial information—including skilled nursing facility medical directors. AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has been advocating for...
Policy Snapshot
March 12, 2025
Statement from PALTmed: Medicaid is Vital for Vulnerable Seniors in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
Nearly everyone in America has someone they care about who has needed the services and care provided in a skilled nursing facility, nursing home, or assisted living facility. The impact that decreased Medicaid funding can have on the quality of care provided to frail older adults residing in post-acute car...
JAMDA
April 10, 2020
Practical Steps to Improve Air Flow in Long-Term Care Resident Rooms to Reduce COVID-19 Infection Risk
The potential for spread of COVID-19 infections in skilled nursing facilities and other long-term care sites poses new challenges for nursing home administrators to protect patients and staff. It is anticipated that as acute care hospitals reach capacity, nursing homes may retain COVID-19 infected resident...
JAMDA
December 5, 2017
Impact of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses on Quality Measures: The Missouri Quality Initiative Experience
The purpose of this article is to review the impact of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) on the quality measure (QM) scores of the 16 participating nursing homes of the Missouri Quality Initiative (MOQI) intervention. The MOQI was one of 7 program sites in the US, with specific interventions uniq...
JAMDA
July 24, 2025
Developing and Implementing an Intervention to Increase Immunization Coverage Among Frontline Long-Term Care Staff
In the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, immunization coverage has declined among frontline post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) staff, such as nurses, certified nursing assistants, and kitchen staff. We took a novel approach to addressing these declines by engaging frontline staff in design of immun...
