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Practice Management Tools

Tool Kit for Managing Attending Physicians in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care

This kit addresses a range of needs from a basic level of acknowledgement to the structured level of a formal application for professional services. It will assist the facility and medical director with verifying qualifications of each attending physician who wishes to serve on staff and make a decision to...

Practice Management Tools

Synopsis of Federal Regulations in the Nursing Facility: Implications for Attending Physicians and Medical Directors

Synopsis of Federal Regulations in the Nursing Facility: Implications for Attending Physicians and Medical Directors is an indispensable resource tool for medical directors, attending physicians, and other post-acute and long-term care practitioners. The Synopsis of Federal Regulations contains summary cha...

Practice Management Tools

PALTmed Model Medical Director Agreement and Supplemental Materials: Medical Director of a Nursing Facility

This package serves as a guide for agreements for medical director services in nursing facilities. It includes a model agreement between the medical director and the nursing facility; performance requirements and the roles and responsibilities of a medical director; PALTmed’s statement on compensation for ...

Practice Management Tools

Assisted Living Facility Medical Director Agreement

The Assisted Living Facility Medical Director’s Contract template is designed to be a model agreement for Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) who are interested in contracting with a physician to provide oversight of medical services. Given the increased levels of medical complexity that is becoming more com...

Practice Management Tools

Starting & Maintaining a Long-Term Care Ethics Committee Tool Kit

The PALTmed Tool Kit for Starting & Maintaining a Long-Term Care Ethics Committee provides a comprehensive guide to medical directors and others working in post-acute and long-term care who encounter ethical issues that need attention. The tool kit provides advice on how to start an ethics committee, c...

Long Term Care Information Series

Palliative Care in the Long-Term Care Setting

Professionals caring for frail older adults understand that the percentage of patients dying in hospitals is decreasing while the percentage of patients dying at home or in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities is increasing. Patients may experience physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering ...

CPG Teaching Slides

Diabetes Management Teaching Slides

The teaching slides are created for the IDT in language and format that can be easily understood. The challenges of diabetes management in the PALTC setting such as the failure to review glucose logs or the reliance on sliding scale insulin protocols are identified; common co-morbidities are also listed. T...

CPG Pocket Guides

UTI Pocket Guide (Set of 5)

“Urinary Tract Infections in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting” is the latest pocket guide from the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed). Based on the consensus statement published in JAMDA in 2020, the pocket guide includes steps to help clinicians with the recognition, asse...

Practice Management Tools

Guide to Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Coding, Reimbursement, and Documentation

Extensively updated to reflect major E/M coding changes for 2023, The Guide to Post-Acute and Long Term Care Coding, Reimbursement, and Documentation, is a popular and must-have publication that contains important documentation and medical decision making requirements as well as one or two Society-develope...

Long Term Care Information Series

Atrial Fibrillation in the Long-Term Care Setting

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a serious health problem, the most common arrhythmia requiring hospital admission, and is associated with an increase in mortality. Because the prevalence of AF increases steadily with age, the number of patients in the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) setting who have or a...