JAMDA
December 20, 2018
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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
D22 - Ownership Transparency
Resolutions
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.
JAMDA
April 24, 2025
Solution to Improve State Health Outcomes and Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Full Practice of APRNs
To identify the influence of advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) restrictive practice laws on the number of APRNs providing services in various care settings, acute, primary, nursing home (long stay), and skilled nursing facility (short stay); understand the relationship between restrictive practice ...
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...
