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March 12, 2025
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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...
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
Transitions of Care CPG
Transitions of care involves the movement of a patient between care settings and the transfer of information with them to facilitate a seamless continuum of care and to enable patients’ wishes to be followed - no matter where in the continuum of care they are. This is an important issue, as care for today’...
Spotlight
July 27, 2023
The Past, Present, and Future of Deprescribing
AMDA’s Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) initiative put practitioners behind the wheel on medication optimization. During a recent AMDA On-The-Go podcast, guest host Jennifer Pruskowski, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCGP, CPE, sat down with Michael Steinman, MD, co-director of the U.S. Deprescribing Research Network, to tal...Basic Page
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JAMDA
December 27, 2019
Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Urinary Tract Infections in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Settings: A Consensus Statement From AMDA's Infection Advisory Subcommittee
The diagnosis and management of urinary tract infections (UTIs) among residents of post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) settings remains challenging. Nonspecific symptoms, complex medical conditions, insufficient awareness of diagnostic criteria, and unnecessary urine studies all contribute to the inappro...
White Papers
J03 - Surrogate Decision-Making and Advance Care Planning in Long-Term Care
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...
Long Term Care Information Series
Clinical Collaboration in the Post-Acute & Long-Term Care Setting
Teamed with physicians, advanced practice nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants (PAs) may enhance the nursing and medical care available to post-acute and long-term care facility patients. Driven by documented positive outcomes and favorable legislation, the presence of the APRNs and PAs continues to gro...
