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JAMDA On-The-Go | December 2020

This podcast will spotlight articles from the December 2020 issue of JAMDA. JAMDA is the official journal of AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
Host: Wayne Saltsman MD, PhD, CMD
Guests: Philip Sloane MD, MPH; Mallory Brown, MD
References:
Joeke van Santen, MSc et. al."Effects of Exergaming on Cognitive and Social Function of People with Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial", JAMDA, 11/2020. "
Christine Kistler, MD, MASc, et. al. "The Winter Respiratory Viral Season During the COVID-19 Pandemic", JAMDA, 2020.
Jeanine Rutten, MD, MSc, et. al., "Clinical Suspicion of COVID-19 in Nursing Home Residents: Symptoms and Mortality Risk Factors", JAMDA, 2020.
Arif Nazir, MD, CMD, AGSF, FACP, et. al. "Time for an Upgrade in the Nursing Home Survey Process", JAMDA, 2020.
Available Credit = 0.25 CMD-Clinical
 

AMDA-On-The-Hill | Volume XVIII

Questions? Email Alex at abardakh@paltc.org
 
References:
Society Advocacy Leads to Positive Resolutions in COVID Relief Bill – Medicare Cuts Stopped
Providers get relief from Medicare cuts, but no liability protections in year-end legislative packages
AMDA COVID-19 Vaccine Education Toolkit
AMDA COVID-19 Resources Page 
From AMDA and ASCP: Monoclonal Antibody Treatment in Senior Care Environments
PALTC21 Virtual Annual Conference
Recorded: 12/20/2020

FMDA Journal Club | Building Vaccine Confidence

Presenter: Leslie Beth Eber, MD CMD
Host: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
Recorded: December 16, 2020
 
Join special guest, Leslie Eber, MD, CMD, and our host, Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, for FMDA's last Journal Club session of 2020, COVID-19 Impact: Building Vaccine Confidence.
Our learning objectives for this session were:
Discuss what we need to do to build Vaccine Confidence across the PALTC continuum, and review current strategies and guidance
Provide an update around current vaccinations, Emergency Use Authorizations, and our next steps regarding vaccine distributions
Review what we know now after initial vaccine administration in other countries
Review the Vaccine pipeline and new updates regarding current and emerging therapeutics.
Discuss the State and Federal Vaccination distribution plans and phases and how it impacts PALTC clinical providers
Click here to access the PowerPoint Slides Recorded: 12/16/2020Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical

FMDA Journal Club | COVID-19 Impact: Headwinds

Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
This episode describes current clinical trends and the differences that we are seeing with this current surge in cases, discusses recent clinical updates and relevant literature regarding vaccinations and monoclonal antibodies, reviews what we now know about COVID-19, it's manifestations, and the impact that we are seeing months later, and discusses ongoing facility preparedness, immunity, and revisits the plans to distribute the vaccine in our facilities.
Recording Date: 12/02/2020
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Available Credit
0.25 CMD-Clinical

CMDA Journal Club | Covid-19 Vaccine Overview

Dr. Gregory Gahm provides an overview of the rapidly evolving Covid vaccine situation and provide a summary of current data about the first 2 vaccines.
Recorded: 12/3/2020
Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical

FMDA Journal Club | COVID-19 Impact: Navigating the Potholes

Join special guest, Alfonso Gonzalez-Rodriguez, MD, as he joins our host, Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, for this episode of FMDA’s Journal Club, COVID-19 Impact: Navigating the Potholes.This episode reviews the latest stats and trends impacting our facilities during this pandemic, provides clinical updates and reviews relevant clinical literature, discusses operationalizing state and national guidance in our facilities, addresses the changes to our clinical providers workflow, and describes solutions and strategies implemented by our clinicians on the front lines.
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Recording Date:  11/04/2020
Available Credit
0.25 CMD-Clinical

AMDA On-The-Go | State Chapter Involvement & Engagement

Leslie Eber, MD., CMD, is the co-investigator for 2 CCTSI community engagement grants entitled “The Colorado Long Term Care Research Partnership: A Community Partnership and Research Collaboration to Promote Health for Residents of Long Term Care Communities.” She is co–founder of the Long Term Care Stakeholder Advisory Board which evaluates and helps engage long term care communities in research. Dr. Eber is the current President of the Colorado Medical Directors Association.She currently practices with Rocky Mountain Senior Care. With Rocky Mountain Senior Care their healing approach is to treat the “whole” person.  This means that, in addition to offering state of the art medical interventions appropriate to each individual, they embrace and honor all aspects of our patients – function, cognition, beliefs, emotions, spiritual and family relationships.  
References:
"Colorado Medical Directors Association "
Mary Waltham, "What do Society and Association Members Really Want", Learned Publishing, 2008.
Samantha Green, "How to Make Society Membership Work for Professionals and Practicioners", Wiley, 2018.
Recorded On: 11/23/2020
Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical

FMDA Journal Club | COVID-19 Impact: Preparing for a Vaccine

Special Guest: Ginny Hoar, PharmD
Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
This episode provides an update around the current vaccination trials and the reported progress, discusses the federal and state vaccination distribution plans, reviews the role of the LTC consultant pharmacist in distributing the vaccine, and describes the preparedness strategies that facilities will need to engage in to distribute this vaccine to their residents and staff.
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Recorded: November 18, 2020
Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical

JAMDA On-The-Go | November 2020

This podcast will spotlight articles from the November 2020 issue of JAMDA. JAMDA is the official journal of AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
Host: Wayne Saltsman MD, PhD, CMD
Guests: Philip Sloane MD, MPH; Mallory Brown, MD
References:
Maggie Collison, MD., et. al., "Three-Tiered COVID-19 Cohorting Strategy and Implications for Memory-Care", JAMDA, Nov., 2020.
Ghinwa Dumyati, MD., et. al., "Does Universal Testing for COVID-19 Work for Everyone?", JAMDA, Nov., 2020.
Jing-hong Liang, MSc., et. al., "Contributions of modifiable risk factors to dementia incidence: A Bayesian network analysis", JAMDA, Nov., 2020.
Ke Chen, PhD., et. al., "Effects of a humanoid companion robot on dementia symptoms and caregiver distress for residents in long-term care", JAMDA, Nov., 2020
Recorded on: 11/13/2020 Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical

CMDA Journal Club | Implications of Cures Act Patient Records Access Rules

Eric Wood from Omnicare reviews the next iteration of the Vivage Therapeutic Substitution form that will again require wet signature approval by everyone. He also discusses any notable changes since the last time we did this. The majority of the meeting is spent discussing what was a poorly advertised portion of the CURES Act. On November 2, a new federal rule that is part of the CURES Act requires the immediate release of many patient records including provider and non-provider daily progress notes (both inpatient and outpatient), plus all laboratory, radiology and pathology reports. This may have enormous implications for all of us, so this will be more of an open discussion than a presentation.
References:
"Centura Open Records Notification P1", Centura, Oct. 23, 2020.
"Centura Open Records Notification P2", Centura, Oct. 23, 2020.
"New Open Records Regulation".
"Open Records Suggestions", UCHealth, Oct. 2020.
Recorded on: 11/5/2020
Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical