JAMDA
March 27, 2025
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Spotlight
March 31, 2025
Medical Director of the Year: Remembering the Past, Looking to the Future
William Mercer, MD, CMD, the 2025 Medical Director of the Year, vividly remembers how he got involved with post-acute and long-term care and with PALTmed (then known as AMDA). The local hospital, which had a long-term care skilled unit, approached him and asked if he’d like to be the medical director. He w...
Spotlight
January 5, 2023
New JAMDA Editors-in-Chief Look to Build on Prestigious Legacy
Bringing together their extensive experience, knowledge, and connections, new JAMDA Editors-in-Chief Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, and Paul Katz, MD, CMD, are ready to hit the ground running on a new era of post-acute and long-term care journal publishing.
Spotlight
October 10, 2024
From Awkward to Engaging: Toolkit Promotes Productive Conversations
Advance care planning is an essential part of post-acute and long-term care (PALTC). However, conversations with patients and family members about a serious illness, palliative care, and hospice can be stressful, challenging, and awkward. The Serious Illness Messaging Toolkit was created to ease the stress...
JAMDA
December 8, 2023
Predicting 60-Day Mortality in a Home-Care Service: Development of a New Inter-RAI 49-Frailty Index in Patients with Chronic Disease and without a Cancer Diagnosis
Frailty Index (FI) is used to define the level of frailty in various clinical settings. Fifteen- and 26-item FIs have been demonstrated to predict 1-year mortality and intensity of care in home care (HC) and palliative home care (PHC). The objective of this study was to develop a new FI to predict the 60-d...
Spotlight
May 31, 2023
2023 Pattee Honorees Are Career Educators Who Inspire Others
Receiving an award from your colleagues is always gratifying, but even more so when you are inspired by the person for whom an award was named. Such is the case with Philip Sloane, MD, MPH, who, along with Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, received the 2023 James Pattee Award for Excellence in Education.
Policy Snapshot
February 3, 2025
Bipartisan Legislation Introduced to Preserve Patient Access to Accountable Care
Darin LaHood Neal Dunn Suzan DelBene Kim Schrier, MD Preserving Patient Access to Accountable Care Act advanced alternative payment models APMsBasic Page
CMD-Mentored Fellowship Experience
CMD certification through eligibility pathway option 1 requires two years of employment experience as a medical director or associate medical director in the long-term care setting. Through a CMD-mentored fellowship experience, one year of this medical director experience may be completed during the fellow...
Chapter Event
Sep 18, 2026 11:00 am - Sep 19, 2026 5:00 pm
9th Annual Ohio Long-Term Care Symposium
Dublin, OHAnnouncing the 9th Annual Symposium on Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, September 18-19, 2026 at the Marriott Columbus Northwest, in Dublin. We are very pleased to offer you a program focused on post-acute, long term, and assisted living care. Our faculty has extensive experience presenting at national events.
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JAMDA
April 22, 2024