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Resolutions

March 1, 2021

D21 - Senior Living Community Training for Medical Students and Residents

Policy Snapshot

April 26, 2024

Observation Status Legislation Introduced in Congress

This week, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) announced bipartisan legislation to update a current loophole in Medicare policy to help protect seniors from high medical costs for the skilled nursing care they require after hospitalization. The Improving Access...

JAMDA

March 20, 2025

Identifying Patient, Care Partner, and Clinician Needs for Functional Recovery Following Hospitalization When Dementia is Present

Persons with dementia are frequently hospitalized, which threatens their ability to return to and live at home. Current post-acute paradigms tend to default to short-term rehabilitation in a nursing home. Still, alternative post-acute care models are crucial for veterans with dementia to recover at home. T...

Landing Page

Publicly Disclosing Medical Director Information

In November 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule requiring the disclosure of certain ownership, managerial (managing employees), and other information regarding Medicare skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and Medicaid nursing facilities. CMS clarified their defini...

JAMDA

October 22, 2016

Determining Nurse Aide Staffing Requirements to Provide Care Based on Resident Workload: A Discrete Event Simulation Model

Nursing aides provide most of the labor-intensive activities of daily living (ADL) care to nursing home (NH) residents. Currently, most NHs do not determine nurse aide staffing requirements based on the time to provide ADL care for their unique resident population. The lack of an objective method to determ...

Resolutions

April 27, 2022

D22 - Ownership Transparency

Resolutions

October 1, 1995

G95 - Physician Medical Directors

JAMDA

June 10, 2024

Evolution of Telehealth Program to Meet Current Needs of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Communities

This article describes a telehealth program initially created to reduce transfers to acute care from the nursing home and its evolution into a robust program that includes Behavioral Health, a Medical Director program, and telenursing.

Spotlight

February 1, 2024

National Dementia Workforce Study Needs Your Input

AMDA members are often on the frontlines of dementia care, so it’s only appropriate that they be involved in the National Dementia Workforce Study, which involves surveying those individuals who work in homes, hospitals, clinics, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes to gain data to improve care an...

JAMDA

June 22, 2020

Do Patients Retain their Family Physicians after Long-Term Care Entry? A Retrospective Cohort Study

Older adults value and benefit from the long-standing relationship they have with their family physicians. This dynamic has not been researched in a long-term care (LTC, ie, nursing home) setting. We sought to determine the proportion of LTC residents who retain their community family physician within the ...