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AMDA On-The-Go | Medication Management during COVID-19

Dr. Brandt is a professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science (PPS) and executive director of the Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
 
 
 
 
Dr. Steinman received his medical school training at Harvard Medical School and completed residency in primary care internal medicine at UCSF. He then joined the UCSF Division of Geriatrics for fellowships in the VA National Quality Scholars Program and the UCSF Clinical Geriatrics Fellowship. Dr. Steinman has been a member of the faculty in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics and at the San Francisco VA Medical Center since 2004.
 
 
References:
Nancy E. Morden, et. al., "Accountable Prescribing", NEJM, 2013.
Nicole Brandt, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, BCPP, FASCP, et. al., "Optimizing Medication Management During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Implementation Guide For Post-Acute and Long-Term Care", U of MD School of Pharmacy, 2020.
 
Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical

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

Questions? Email Alex at abardakh@paltc.org
References:
AMDA COVID-19 Page
AMDA Telehealth Page
AMDA Forum
AMDA Policy Statement: COVID-19 Testing Strategies Should Be Tailored to the Clinical Situation
AMDA Statement on the Reopening of Post-Acute & Long-Term Care Facilities
CMS: Nursing Home Reopening Recommendations for State and Local Officials
CMS Announces Independent Commission to Address Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes
 

FMDA Journal Club | COVID-19: Stories from the Front Lines

Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
Special Guests: Gregory James, DO, MPH, CMD; Renee Lebon, RN, NHA; Elizabeth VandeVelde, RN, MSN, ANP-CRN, MSN, ANP-C; and Bertha Carrion, ARNP, DNP, FNP. 
Topics include challenges around obtaining PPE, successes and barriers to treating in place and delivering care via telehealth, and the uphill battle of unnecessary hospitalizations.
Recorded May 13, 2020
Available Credit
0.25 CMD-Clinical

JAMDA On-The-Go | May 2020 | COVID-19 Pandemic

This podcast will spotlight articles from the May 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:
Philip D. Sloane, MD, MPH; "Cruise ships, nursing homes, and prisons as COVID-19 epicenters", JAMDA Journal Pre-proof, 2020.
Matteo Cesari, Marco Proietti; "COVID-19 in Italy: Ageism and Decision Making in a Pandemic", JAMDA, May, 2020.
David Dosa, MD, MPH; "LTC Facilities and the Coronavirus Epidemic", JAMDA, May, 2020.
Benedetta Armocida, Beatrice Formenti, Silvia Ussai, Francesca Palestra, Eduardo Misson; The Italian health system and the COVID-19 challenge" Lancet, 2020.
"Hundreds of nursing homes with cases of coronavirus have violated federal infection-control rules in recent years" Washingtonpost.com, 2020.
Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, et. al. ; "The Need to Include Assisted Living in Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic", JAMDA, May, 2020.
"Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Among Residents and Staff Members of an Independent and Assisted Living Community for Older Adults — Seattle, Washington, 2020 ", CDC, April, 2020.
0.25 CMD-Clinical

AMDA On-The-Go | POLST in the Time of COVID-19

Amy Vandenbroucke, JD Executive Dir., National POLST
Karl Steinberg, MD, HMDC, CMD,  President-Elect, AMDA
 
References:
Marshall B. Kapp, MPH, JD, "Overcoming Legal Impediments to Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment", AMA Journal of Ethics, 2015.
National POLST
Recording Date:  5/5/2020
Available Credit:
0.25 CMD-Clinical
 
 

AMDA On-The-Go | Rehabbed to Death

Dr. Lynn Flint is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Geriatrics and an attending physician on the Hospice and Palliative Care Service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC). She provides inpatient palliative care consultation and nursing home care for older adults with complex chronic illness and functional and cognitive impairment.
 
Published Date: 05/04/2020
References:
Shekinah A. Fashaw, MSPH, et. al; “"Thirty-year Trends in Nursing Home Composition and Quality Since the Passage of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act”, JAMDA, 2020.
James Fries; "The Compression of Morbidity", NCBI, 1980.
L. Flint, MD; “Rehabbed to Death: Breaking the Cycle”, JAGS, 2019.
J. Ouslander, MD, and D. Grabowski, PhD; "Rehabbed to Death Reframed: In Response to “Rehabbed to Death: Breaking the Cycle”"; JAGS, 2019.
Available Credit
0.25 CMD-Clinical
https://apex.paltc.org/course/view.php?id=415

FMDA Journal Club | COVID-19: Advance Care Planning

Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
with Maria Gonzalez, MD, FAAFP, CMD and Naushira Pandya, MD, CMD, FACP
Recorded: April 29, 2020
Available for CME Credits

FMDA Journal Club | Treating COVID-19 Patients in Place: Clinical Deep Dive into the Research

Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD
Recorded: April 22, 2020
This session reviews all relevant updates and literature around COVID-19 with emphasis on typical and atypical clinical presentation, innovations around testing, evolving pharmaceutical landscape, and of course, practical implications.

AMDA On-The-Go | Behavioral Health Effects of COVID-19

Lea Watson, MD and Richard Juman, MD
Dr. Watson is a board certified adult and geriatric psychiatrist with a lifelong commitment to caring for vulnerable populations, and two decades of academic and leadership experience. Her passion is creating a culture of appropriate psychotropic prescribing in long-term care settings to achieve quality outcomes for all stakeholders. She prioritizes common sense, avoiding harms and keeping the patient’s and family’s goals of care at the heart of all endeavors.  Because of the shortage of geriatric psychiatrists in the United States, she developed a model of consultation and training to extend the reach of this highly needed, but limited specialty.  Dr. Watson is a published author, a recipient of numerous local and national awards for research and teaching, and a multi-year recipient of the Denver 5280 Top Doc award.
 
 
 
 
 National Director of Psychological Services for TeamHealth, one of the leading providers of facility-based, integrated health care in the U.S. Responsible for all aspects of TeamHealth's provision of psychological services, including program development, training, regulatory compliance, documentation and quality improvement.
 
 
References:
Strategies for Mitigating the Emotional Impact of COVID-19 | 3/15/2020

AMDA ON-THE-HILL | COVID - 19 Update | VOLUME XIII

Questions? Email Alex at abardakh@paltc.org
References:
AMDA Update on COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)