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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

FMDA Journal Club | All Things Missed

Special Guest: Elizabeth Galik, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP
Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
In this edition of FMDA’s Journal Club, special guest Elizabeth Galik, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, joins Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, to discuss the health impact to the non-COVID patient and concerns regarding delaying care, emerging and impactful research outside of the COVID scope, and the longstanding psychosocial impact of COVID-19 to both patients and providers.
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Recorded: August 26, 2020
Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical

AMDA On-The-Go | Age-Friendly Health Systems

Dr. Bonner has been a geriatric nurse practitioner, caring for nursing home residents and their families, for over 25 years. She is currently Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Center for Innovative Care in Aging, a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
References:
"Project Echo" University of New Mexico, School of Medicine.
"Age-Friendly Health Systems", IHI.org.
"Age-Friendly Health Systems: Guide to Using the 4Ms in the Care of Older Adults", IHI.org, 2020.
Kyle Allen DO, Joseph G. Ouslander, MD; "Age-Friendly Health Systems: Their Time Has Come", JAGS, Sept., 2017.
Fullmer., et. al. "The Age-Friendly Health System Imperative", JAGS, Sept., 2017.
Recorded on: 10/30/2020
Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical

CMDA Journal Club | Covid-19 Diagnostics

Colorado Journal Club presents Doctors Ehrhart and Ebel from CSU. These are the leaders of the group that has been doing research in our facilities on Covid and will cover everything from PCR to antigen testing to antibodies to growing virus.  Dr. Ehrhart is the Director of Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging, Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Musculoskeletal Oncology and Traumatology and a Professor of Surgical Oncology in the School of Biomedical Engineering.  Dr. Ebel is a Professor of Microbiology.  
Video version on CMDA youtube channel:
https://youtu.be/WyAHAfZeVcI

AMDA On-The-Go | The Geriatric Inpatient Fracture Services (GIFTS) program

Dr. Esteban Franco Garcia, MD is a geriatric medicine specialist in Boston, MA. He currently practices at MGH Beacon Hill Primary Care and is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. In this podcast Dr. Franco Garcia discusses his work at MGH in the Geriatric Inpatient Fracture Services (GIFTS) intervention program.
 
References:
"Introducing the ACS Geriatric Surgery Verification Program".
"Geriatric Inpatient Fracture Service (GIFTS) ", Oct. 2020.
Gioffre-fliorio, et. al., "Trauma in elderly patients: a study of prevalence, comorbidities and gender differences", Il Giornale di Chirugia, 2018.
Fry et. al., "High Acuity Unit in SNF: Novel Program to Improve Quality of Care for Post-Acute Patients", JAMDA, 2018.

AMDA On-The-Hill | COVID - 19 UPDATE | VOLUME XVII

Questions? Email Alex at abardakh@paltc.org
References:
 
Society Asks CMS to Avoid Cuts to Nursing Facility/Assisted Living Services in Response to CY2021 Proposed Physician Fee Schedule 
CDC Guidance for SARS-CoV-2 Point-of-Care Testing
CMS Testing and Reporting Requirements
AMDA COVID-19 Resources Page
AMDA Member Forum