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AMDA In-The-States | The Story Behind AB749 | July 2022

Title: “The The Story Behind AB749” 
Our Guest Michael R. Wasserman, MD, CMD is a geriatrician who has devoted his career to serving the needs of older adults. He has been a tireless advocate for vulnerable older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, with multiple peer-reviewed publications and television appearances. He served as a member of the National Academy of Science’s “A Framework for Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus” Committee and was a member of California’s Community Vaccine Advisory Committee. He is Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s upcoming textbook, Geriatric Medicine: A Person-Centered Evidence-Based Approach.
Recording Date: July 5, 2022
Host: Carl J. “Christian” Bergman, MD, CMDGuest: Michael R. Wasserman, MD, CMDState: CaliforniaAffiliation: CALTCM
Available Credit: The American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) issues CMD credits for AMDA On-The-Go and affiliate podcast episodes as follows:
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AMDA ON-THE-GO | Boosters, Vaccines, & More – COVID Update

We review and discuss all things new around COVID vaccinations and boosters, while addressing the questions that are often asked by PALTC clinicians and staff. In addition we tackle the ongoing challenge of vaccine & booster hesitancy and apathy.
Featuring: With Swati Gaur, MD, and Leslie Eber, MD. Hosted by Diane Sanders-Cepeda
Recording Date: 7/1/22
Available Credit
0.25 CMD-Clinical

AMDA On-The-Go | Breaking down Bias in Clinical decision making

This conversation raises the challenging issue of bias in clinical decision-making and provides strategies to overcome this in our day-to-day practice.
Featuring: Travis Neill & Hosted by Diane Sanders-Cepeda
Recording Date: 6/27/22
Available Credit
0.25 CMD-Clinical

AMDA In-The-States | The Why and How of Advocacy | June 2022

Daniel Haimowitz, MD, FACP, CMD, is a board-certified internist and geriatrician and has been in private practice in Levittown, PA, since 1986. Dr. Haimowitz is the medical director of several area nursing homes and assisted-living communities. He founded the Bucks County Long-Term Care Consortium and serves on the Bucks County Senior Task Force. He is also the medical adviser for the Bucks County Area Agency on Aging. A nationally recognized expert in long-term care and devoted advocate for older adults, he has participated in past White House Conferences on Aging, most recently in 2015. Dr. Haimowitz received the American Geriatrics Society Physician of the Year Award in 2001 and the William Dodd Founder’s Award for Distinguished Service from the American Medical Directors Association in 2009. He has served AMDA in many key roles over the years including as a member of the Board and on the public policy committee. He continuously assists AMDA in key initiatives and is very active in advocacy and public policy at the state and national levels.
Recording Date: June 23Title: “The Why and How of Advocacy” Interviewee: Daniel Haimowitz, MD, FACP, CMDState: PennsylvaniaAffiliation: PMDA

JAMDA On-The-Go | June 2022 | Drug Prescribing Dilemmas in Geriatric Medicine

This podcast will spotlight articles from the June 2022 issue of JAMDA. JAMDA is the official journal of AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
Host:  Karl Steinberg MD, HMDC, CMD
Guests: Philip Sloane MD, MPH; Mallory Brown, MD 
Special Guest: Josh Niznik, PharmD
References:
Sloane, P., MD, MPH, et. al., “The Ambiguous Reality of Prescribing in Geriatric Practice”, JAMDA, June/2022.
Lau, E., BPharmMgmt (Hons), et. al., “Prevalence and Risk Factors for Drug-Related Problems in People with Dementia Living in the Community: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, JAMDA, June/2022.
Mbazira, A., MRCPsych, et. al., “Sedation-Associated Medications at Dementia Diagnosis, Their Receptor Activity, and Associations With Adverse Outcomes in a Large Clinical Cohort”, JAMDA, June/2022.
Baier, R., MPH, et. al., “Feasibility of a Nursing Home Antibiotic Stewardship Intervention”, JAMDA, June/2022.
Jacob, , PharmD, et. al., “Antibiotic De-escalation Opportunities for Residents in Assisted Living Facilities”, JAMDA, June/2022.
Harris, D., MPH, et. al., “Potential Unintentional Consequences of Antipsychotic Reduction in Ontario Nursing Homes”, JAMDA, June/2022.
Recorded: May 25, 2022
Available Credit
0.25 CMD-Clinical

FMDA Journal Club | Achieving Quality Now

Join our host, Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, as she welcomed special guests, Lynn D’Avico, PharmD, CPh, and Amina Dubuisson, DNP, MSN, RN, PCNS-BC, to this episode of FMDA’s Journal Club, Achieving Quality Now.
 Our learning objectives for this session were:
Analyze the evolving healthcare landscape and the impact on our PALTC facilities.
Define the current state of our PALTC staffing challenges while discussing legislative initiatives that we are adopting in PALTC.
Describe how we are approaching infection control and prevention while addressing increased antibiotic usage in many PALTC facilities.
Revisit psychotropic stewardship and opioid use reduction efforts and explain what we are currently experiencing in our PALTC facilities.
Provide insight on the work that we are doing to decrease preventable hospitalizations and readmissions.
Special Guests: Lynn D’Avico, PharmD, CPh; and Amina Dubuisson, DNP, MBA/HCM, RN, LNHA, CDP
Hosted by: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
Recorded: June 22, 2022

Caring On-The-Go | June-July 2022

June-July 2022 - The PALTC22 Conference Issue
In this episode Karl Steinberg and Elizabeth Galik reflect on the PALTC22 conference, including how to support nurses to ease the workforce crisis and formulating and communicating prognoses. We also discuss the power of social relationships in long-term care and a legal issues column on medication errors and homicide. Articles include:
Joanne Kaldy, “Supporting Nurses to Ease the Workforce Crisis” (https://www.caringfortheages.com/article/S1526-4114(22)00192-5/fulltext)
Alan C. Horowitz, Esq., RN, “Medication Errors and Homicide: When Law and Medicine Collide” (https://www.caringfortheages.com/article/S1526-4114(22)00195-0/fulltext)
Elizabeth Galik, PhD, CRNP, “The Power of Social Relationships With Peers and Staff in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care” (https://www.caringfortheages.com/article/S1526-4114(22)00187-1/fulltext)
Christine Kilgore, “Formulating and Communicating Prognoses: Tools and Techniques” (https://www.caringfortheages.com/article/S1526-4114(22)00190-1/fulltext)
Host: Karl Steinberg, MD, HMDC, CMD
Guest(s): Elizabeth Galik, Ph.D., CRNP
Resources: Caring for the Ages
Recorded: June 9, 2022
Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical

FMDA Journal Club | Long COVID – Clinical Deep Dive

Long COVID – Clinical Deep Dive
Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
Recorded: May 11, 2022
Let’s go down the rabbit hole and explore clinical cases, literature, and guidance while continuing the dialogue on the impact of Long COVID, aka. Post-Acute Sequala of COVID (PASC), across the PALTC continuum.
Our learning objectives for this session were:
Review current insight into the pathophysiology of Post-Acute Sequala of COVID and the duration of this condition.
Evaluate the current literature and anecdotal knowledge around Post–Acute Sequala of COVID.
Assess our ability to recognize and diagnosis this condition across the PALTC continuum.
Discuss clinical interventions and medical management under investigation for Post-Acute Sequala of COVID.
Create a dialogue around guidance and guidelines for the management of Post-Acute Sequala of COVID across the PALTC continuum.

FMDA Journal Club | Meeting the Current Clinical Challenges in PALTC

Special Guests: Kenneth Scheppke, MD, FAEMS, and Kimberly R. Smoak, MSH, QIDP
Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
Recorded: March 30, 2022
Join special guests, Kenneth Scheppke, MD, FAEMS, and Kimberly R. Smoak, MSH, QIDP, and our host Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, for this episode of FMDA's Journal Club, Meeting the Current Clinical Challenges in PALTC.
This session focused on the following Learning Objectives:
Review President Biden’s nursing home policy, as laid out in the State of the Union, and varied responses from AMDA and other national organizations.
Describe the staffing crisis across our PALTC continuum and the long-lasting impact to our PALTC infrastructure.
Deliberate over current state of the state for the COVID pandemic and the preparedness required for an endemic response in PALTC.
Discuss practical implications for second boosters and our current SNF vaccine policies as they stand today.

FMDA Journal Club | Cardiology Updates

Special Guests: Bernardo J. Reyes, MD, CMD, AGSF, and Shannu Satyavolu, MD
Hosted by: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
Recorded: February 23, 2022
Join special guests, Bernardo J. Reyes, MD, CMD, AGSF; Shannu Satyavolu, MD; and our host, Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, for the next episode of FMDA's Journal Club, Cardiology Updates.
Our learning objectives for this session were:
Discuss the latest hot topics and clinical trends impacting the PALTC community.
Deep dive into atrial fibrillation with the review of USPTSF recent screening for atrial fibrillation guidance.
Describe the impact to of this atrial fibrillation guidance on the geriatric population.
Define the practical implications for providers practicing across the PALTC continuum.